--- title: "Sell My House Fast in Scranton, PA | Cash Offer Today | Nicolas Abitbol" description: "I buy houses for cash in Scranton, PA, Hill Section, Green Ridge, Tripp Park, South Side, West Side, North Scranton, Petersburg. Any condition. Zero fees. Nicolas Abitbol." url: "https://nicolasabitbol.com/scranton-pa.html" last_updated: 2026-05-11 --- # I buy houses in Scranton. **From the four-squares on the Hill Section to the frame workers' cottages in Tripp Park and the brick doubles along Green Ridge, I buy across every Scranton neighborhood, in any condition. Cash offer the same day you call. Close when you're ready.** --- ## Where I buy in Scranton. I take houses in the Hill Section, Green Ridge, and the West Side flats, and I know what the anthracite-era stock actually needs. Every neighborhood in the city proper. The Hill Section on the eastern rise, one of the more architecturally intact anthracite-era neighborhoods left in NEPA. Green Ridge running north of the Hill Section along the ridge line. Tripp Park in the northeast, a mix of working-class frame houses and small doubles. North Scranton and the blocks around Providence Square. Petersburg on the west side of Providence. South Side below downtown, where you find some of the oldest worker housing in the city. West Side along the Lackawanna River flats. Pine Brook in the northwest. Hyde Park and the blocks between Dickson Avenue and the former D&H rail corridor. Downtown and the Central Business District where there's still mixed residential stock. If your address is Scranton, I want to hear about it. That covers ZIPs 18503 (downtown core), 18504 (Tripp Park, North Scranton, Pine Brook), 18505 (South Side, West Side), 18508 (Hill Section, Green Ridge, Petersburg), 18509 (Green Ridge northeast, Greenwood), 18510 (Hill Section, Minooka area), and 18512 (North Scranton, parts of Providence). I close on properties across every one of those. Scranton's housing stock is fundamentally shaped by the anthracite era, roughly 1870 through 1920 is when most of the city got built. That means Pennsylvania four-squares, front-porch Craftsman bungalows, brick doubles, narrow frame row houses on 25-foot lots, and the occasional larger Victorian single that was carved into apartments sometime in the 1950s. Common across all of it: knob-and-tube or early cloth-wrapped wiring, single-wall construction in the older frame houses, coal cellars converted to oil or gas heat with varying degrees of competence, and aging slate roofs. On top of that, significant portions of the city sit over former underground mine workings. The PA DEP mine subsidence risk mapping shows coverage across the Hill Section, South Side, and West Side, it's not hypothetical. I price for all of it. ## Why Scranton sellers sell to me. The Scranton retail market has a specific problem: the price range where most of the city's housing stock sits, the $80,000 to $180,000 range, is thin on qualified buyers. FHA buyers need the house to appraise and pass an inspection. Conventional buyers in that range are competing with investors who low-ball. When a house needs a new roof, a furnace, and has a water line running through a former mine-flushing zone, the listing sits. Meanwhile the seller is paying taxes and utilities on a property they need to exit. I've seen that cycle play out on blocks in the Hill Section, in Tripp Park, in South Side, the house sits, gets relisted, eventually gets pulled, and nothing changes. Some of those sellers then end up in foreclosure at the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas, which is a longer and harder road than selling early. I buy with my own funds and private capital. No lender sign-off, no appraisal, no inspection contingency. If there are mine subsidence concerns, I get the PA DEP data and I price for it, I don't pretend it doesn't exist and I don't use it to lowball unfairly. If the house has a condemned unit, an open citation from Scranton's Bureau of Building Inspection, or a water lien from the Scranton Sewer Authority, I work through that on my side after closing. I'm built for the complicated deal, not the easy one. --- ## FAQ **Q: Do you buy houses in the Hill Section?** A: Yes. The Hill Section is some of the most interesting anthracite-era housing stock in northeastern Pennsylvania, four-squares, brick colonials, frame workers' cottages. I buy across all of it, condition aside. The neighborhood's mine subsidence risk mapping doesn't scare me off; it just factors into the number I give you. **Q: What about mine subsidence under my property?** A: It's real, and I don't pretend otherwise. The PA DEP Mine Subsidence Insurance map covers significant portions of Scranton, including parts of the Hill Section, South Side, and West Side. I pull the GIS data at gis.dep.pa.gov before I quote. If you're in a flagged zone, it affects the price, but it doesn't kill the deal. I've closed on subsidence-mapped properties before. **Q: I'm in foreclosure in Lackawanna County. Is it too late?** A: Probably not. Pennsylvania is a judicial foreclosure state. The Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas moves at a pace that typically puts 12 to 15 months between complaint and Sheriff's Sale, sometimes longer with continuances. As long as the Sheriff's Sale hasn't happened, I can usually buy the house and pay off what's owed. The earlier you contact me, the better the outcome. **Q: What if my property has a citation from Scranton's Bureau of Building Inspection?** A: I take it on. Open violations, condemned units, failed inspection notices, these are normal in older Scranton housing stock and none of them prevent me from closing. I absorb the resolution process post-closing and price for the work involved. **Q: How fast can you close?** A: Seven to fourteen days on a clean title. Scranton properties sometimes carry water and sewer liens through the city or the Scranton Sewer Authority that need to be resolved before the title company can insure, that can add a week. I'll tell you on day one what the title search is likely to show.