How much commission do I save by selling my Newark house to Tony directly?
5-6% of sale price. On a $300K Newark house, that's $15,000-$18,000. On a $500K, $25,000-$30,000. You keep all of it.
Real estate agents charge 5-6% commission. On a typical Essex County sale that's $20,000-$40,000 gone before you see a dime. Tony charges nothing. The cash quote is the cash you keep on your Newark property.

The kind of row house property Tony has bought in Newark.
Essex County, anchored by Newark, is heavy on multi-family housing — two-families, three-families, four-families. East Orange and Irvington sellers often own occupied multi-units.
Newark and East Orange tax rates are 2.5-3.5% of assessed value; tax-delinquency is common and Tony's title company handles back-tax payoff routinely.
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Tell Tony where the house is and what shape it's in. Get a cash number on the same call. Pick a closing date.
7 days a week, 8 AM to 9 PM Eastern.
Why do agents in Newark push for a price reduction after 30 days on the market? Because their job is to close — yours or someone else's. Their commission is the same whether your house sells for $400K or $375K. Tony's offer is direct; there's no agent incentive working against you.
Newark housing stock is heavy on multi-family — two-families, three-families, and pre-war row houses. Tony buys all of them, including tenant-occupied properties. Section by section that means 1900s-1920s frame two- and three-families with asphalt or vinyl siding through Vailsburg, the West Ward, and the South Ward; brick and stucco multi-families packed tight in the Ironbound; 1920s brick apartment walk-ups around Clinton Hill and Weequahic; big Victorian and Tudor houses cut into units in Forest Hill; and newer vinyl two-families built on lots the city sold off after the 1970s and 80s.
The Newark owners who call Tony are usually holding a family multi-family that has become a job. A parent passed and left a three-family in the South Ward with one unit vacant, one paying, and one behind on rent. A landlord is done with rent-control filings, lead-safe inspections on a pre-1978 building, and code-enforcement letters from City Hall. A tax-sale certificate on the house has been sitting with a lien holder who is now moving to foreclose. Or the block is in a redevelopment zone and the owner has been getting lowball letters for years. A listing means showings around tenants, an inspection that flags the wiring, and a buyer whose bank wants the violations cleared first. Tony gives one number on the phone and closes on the seller's date, tenants and all.
Newark requires a Certificate of Code Compliance inspection before a one- to four-family changes hands, plus the smoke detector, carbon monoxide, and fire extinguisher certificate every NJ sale needs from the fire official — Tony's side schedules both and takes the house with whatever they find. The seller pays the NJ Realty Transfer Fee (roughly 1% on most sales, with a reduced rate for seniors and disabled owners on their own home), and any open tax-sale certificate or water lien is redeemed from the proceeds at the table. Tenant security deposits and leases transfer to Tony at closing. There is no lender, so no appraisal, no repair conditions, and no financing contingency.
Every cash buyer, Tony included, starts from the same three numbers: what the house would sell for fully renovated, what it costs to get it there, and how long that takes. The offer is that finished value minus the repairs, minus the buyer's resale costs and margin. In practice that lands most cash offers somewhere around 70–85% of the renovated value, less repairs. The honest comparison is not against a renovated house's list price — it is against what you would actually net from a NJ listing after commission, repairs, and months of carrying costs.
| Line item | List with an agent | Sell to Tony |
|---|---|---|
| What the house would sell for fully renovated | $400,000 | $400,000 |
| Repairs a retail buyer's lender will demand | − $45,000 | Tony's problem |
| Agent commission (5–6%) | − $20,000 to $24,000 | $0 |
| Inspection credits, seller closing costs, concessions | − $8,000 to $12,000 | $0 |
| Taxes, insurance, mortgage, utilities while you wait (3–6 months) | − $9,000 to $15,000 | $0 |
| Time to cash in hand | 4 to 7 months | 7 to 14 days |
| What you actually walk away with | ≈ $305,000 to $318,000 | Tony's number, in full, on your date |
Whether Tony's number beats that listing net depends on the house. On a move-in-ready home in a hot NJmarket it usually will not, and Tony will tell you to list. On a house that needs work, has tenants, sits in an estate, or carries violations — the houses retail buyers cannot finance — it is often close, and the seven-day timeline is the difference. Call 1-908-768-4759, get the number, and compare it yourself.
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5-6% of sale price. On a $300K Newark house, that's $15,000-$18,000. On a $500K, $25,000-$30,000. You keep all of it.
Tony is the buyer. There's no buyer to find — you're calling the buyer directly. No MLS, no Zillow listing, no showings.
MLS exposure is how agents find buyers. Tony doesn't need it because Tony already has cash and is already the buyer. The whole reason for MLS evaporates.
Sometimes a tiny bit less, sometimes more. The commission savings often more than offset any difference. And if your Newark house needs work, has a complication, or just needs to sell fast — the agent route nets you less in the end.
No listing agreement. No exclusivity. No "right to sell." You call, Tony makes an offer, you decide. If you say no, you owe nothing — there's no contract until you sign one at closing.
Yes, with the tenants in place. Newark's rent control ordinance and the tenants' leases carry over to Tony as the new landlord at closing — you don't need to serve notices, negotiate buyouts, or wait for a unit to empty. Tell Tony the unit count, what each unit pays, and who is behind, and he'll give you one number for the building as it stands.
Yes. In New Jersey a tax-sale certificate is a lien, not a transfer of ownership — you still own the house until a court forecloses. Tony's title company gets the redemption figure from the certificate holder, pays it from the sale proceeds at closing, and you walk away with the balance. If the holder has already started foreclosure, call sooner rather than later; there is still time, but less of it.
Yes. Tony buys in all of Newark's five wards and every ZIP code from 07102 through 07114: frame two-families in Vailsburg and Roseville, Ironbound brick multi-families, Weequahic and Clinton Hill walk-ups, Forest Hill Victorians, and infill houses in the Central Ward. If it's inside the Newark city line, Tony will give you a number.
Yes. Newark's resale inspection is a big reason owners come to Tony — a retail buyer's bank won't close until the violations are cleared, and clearing them costs money you may not have. Tony buys the house as-is, handles the inspection on his side, and takes on whatever repairs the city wants after closing. The number he quotes already accounts for it.
Save $20K+ on a typical Essex County sale. Call Tony at 1-908-768-4759 — direct buyer, no agent.
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Tell Tony where the house is and what shape it's in. Get a cash number on the same call. Pick a closing date.
7 days a week, 8 AM to 9 PM Eastern.
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