How We Buy Houses in Hazelwood
We buy Hazelwood houses as-is, including the century-old ones. You get a written cash offer within 24 hours, you don’t make repairs, and you pick the closing date.
Selling a House in Hazelwood: What’s Different
Hazelwood is a City of Pittsburgh neighborhood, not a borough, so there’s no borough-style occupancy inspection when you sell. Here’s what applies instead:
- A dye test, depending on your sewer. The city’s dye-testing ordinance applies before a sale in sanitary sewer areas; combined sewer areas are exempt. Pittsburgh Water decides which one your property is in after you apply and answers within about 10 business days. A passing Evidence of Compliance certificate is good for three years.
- Open PLI violations. Citations from the city’s Department of Permits, Licenses and Inspections stay with the house. A retail buyer’s lender usually wants them cleared first. A cash buyer can take the house with them open.
- Vacant houses. A house that has sat empty for 12 months and meets Pennsylvania’s blight definition can be targeted for conservatorship under Act 135, where a court puts someone else in charge of the property.
Hazelwood by the numbers
Greater Hazelwood (Hazelwood and Glen Hazel) counted 4,548 residents in the 2020 census, down 9.6% from 5,033 in 2010. The housing is old: the median home was built in 1940, about half before 1940, and 72% before 1960. Only 44% of homes are owner-occupied (American Community Survey 2022), and about one in five residential addresses was vacant as of March 2024 (USPS data). The 2021 median sale price was $97,150, against $202,750 citywide (Allegheny County Office of Property Assessments). All figures are from the University of Pittsburgh Community Engagement Center’s Greater Hazelwood neighborhood profile.
That price gap is why a cash sale matters here. On a house selling under $100,000, a roof, a furnace and a sewer line can eat a large share of the price, and a retail buyer’s inspection or appraisal often ends the deal.
Hazelwood Green and what it means for your house
Pittsburgh’s last operating steel mill, the LTV coke works on the river, closed in 1998. The 178-acre site is now Hazelwood Green: Mill 19 opened in 2019, Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Innovation Center opened in 2026, and the 160-unit Woodlawn Lofts is set to open its first phase in December 2026 (Axios Pittsburgh, September 2026). New jobs and housing next door have people looking at Hazelwood again. They don’t change the condition of a century-old house on a hillside street, in a neighborhood where 18 sets of city steps still connect the streets.
Rules and fees change. Confirm current requirements with Pittsburgh Water and the City of Pittsburgh before you sell.
Nearby Areas and Help for Your Situation
Nearby, we also buy houses in Squirrel Hill, Homestead and Munhall, and across Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.
Dealing with something specific? See how we buy houses with code violations, vacant houses, inherited houses, and houses behind on property taxes.
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