Acquisitions
We buy buildings
other people have given up on
Houses, apartment buildings, storefronts, commercial property, land. If you own something that needs more work than you want to do, we would like to hear about it — we buy directly, with our own money and our own crew, and we do not need you to fix anything first.
Why sell to us rather than list it
A building that needs work is a difficult thing to sell on the open market. Buyers want a mortgage, the mortgage wants an appraisal, and the appraisal does not like a roof with a tarp on it. Most offers fall through at the inspection.
We are not that buyer. We are a development company with a construction company attached, so the work that frightens everyone else is simply what we do on a Tuesday. We look at what the building will be worth when it is finished, not at what it looks like now.
What we look for
The kind of thing we buy
Two to twenty units
Walk-ups, three-deckers and small blocks. This is the core of what we do and where we can move fastest, occupied or empty.
Houses needing everything
Roof gone, systems from the sixties, a kitchen nobody has touched since. The worse the condition, the less competition we have for it.
Buildings standing empty
Boarded up, condemned, or simply shut for years. A vacant building costs you money every month it stands there and is worth more to us than to almost anyone else.
Inherited property
A house that came with an estate and a set of decisions nobody wants to make. We are used to probate timescales and to sales where several people have to agree.
Storefronts & mixed use
A shop or an office at street level with apartments over it. Awkward to finance, awkward to sell, and squarely the kind of building we like. Small commercial and light industrial too.
Land and odd lots
Buildable parcels, a lot beside a building we own, something with an awkward access problem. Worth an ask.
Berkshire County, Massachusetts and the counties either side of the New York line. Anything from a single house to a twenty-unit block, and plenty that does not fit either description — if you are not sure whether we would want it, ask.
How it goes
You tell us what you have
The address and roughly what state it is in. That is genuinely enough to start. You do not need a survey, an appraisal, a floor plan or a tidy-up.
We come and look
Usually within a few days. We walk the building ourselves — the same people who would do the work — and we tell you honestly what we think of it, including if we think you would do better selling it on the open market.
We make an offer, or we do not
Within about a week, in writing, with the reasoning behind the number. If it is not for us we will say so plainly rather than string you along, and where we can we will point you at someone it might suit.
You take your time with it
There is no expiring offer and no pressure. Show it to your attorney, your accountant, your family. If you want to compare it with a listing price, an agent will give you an opinion of value for nothing.
We close
On your timetable. We are not waiting on a mortgage approval, so the date is a matter of what suits you rather than what suits a lender.
Things people are usually worried about
It is full of thirty years of belongings.
Leave them. Take what matters to you and shut the door on the rest — clearing a building is part of what we do, and we would rather you did not spend three weekends into a dumpster.
There are tenants in it.
That is fine, and often a point in its favor. Existing tenancies continue and residents keep the rights they already have. We are landlords ourselves, and we do not buy buildings in order to empty them.
It has code violations, or an open order.
Tell us. We would far rather know at the start. Correcting that sort of thing is ordinary work for us and it does not stop a sale.
It is in probate, or there are several owners.
Common, and workable. We will wait for the estate to be in order, and we are used to a sale where four siblings have to agree on something.
Do I pay a commission?
Not to us. We are the buyer, not an agent. You pay whatever your own attorney charges and your share of the ordinary closing costs, and nothing to us.
What happens to the building afterwards?
We rebuild it and we keep it. We are a holding company — the buildings we buy become the buildings we own and rent out for years afterwards. You are welcome to come and look at what it turned into; most people do.
Tell us about the building
Nothing here commits you to anything, and we will not turn up unannounced. The address and a sentence about its condition is plenty.
Or just ring us
- Phone & text(518) 733-0082
- Email[email protected]
- Mailing addressPO Box 154
Stephentown, NY 12168
We are the buyer, not a middleman
Hinton’s Berkshire Homes buys with its own money and holds what it buys. Your details are not passed to a list of investors, and nobody is going to sell your address to someone else.
See what we do with them
The development page follows one building from derelict to finished apartments — stripped to the frame, reframed, re-roofed and rebuilt by our own crew.