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The Jersey Shore Becomes a Lifestyle, Not Just a Vacation If Part 1 of this story is about why people want to live in New Jersey, Part 2 is about where they increasingly want to live. And one of the clearest answers is the Jersey Shore. For decades, the Shore was...

Nowhere is this transformation more visible than along the Jersey Shore. For generations, shore communities were largely divided into two populations: people who lived there and people who came there for the summer. That distinction is becoming increasingly blurred....

New Jersey’s Secret Is Out: Why the Garden State Is Becoming One of America’s Most Desirable Places to Live For years, New Jersey was treated like the state you drove through on the way tp somewhere else. New York was the destination. Philadelphia was the destination....

AI has accelerated the number of fraud emails we are all receiving these days.  You might be getting more scam emails because your email address may have appeared in a data breach, mailing list, public directory, website, professional database, or previously...

Wishing All of Our Friends, Clients and Associates a Happy Labor Day! It's been a great summer all around. HOLIDAY OFFICE HOURS Our office will close on Friday, September 4th @ 3:30 p.m. Closed Monday, September 7th. We will reopen: Tuesday, September 8th, 8:30 a.m....

Labor Day is often viewed as the unofficial end of summer. For New Jersey real estate, however, it can signal something else: a change in the market. As summer vacations wind down, children return to school and families settle back into their regular routines, the...

New Jersey does not need another symbolic promise to “cap” property taxes. It already has a 2% local levy cap, but the bills keep rising because the state’s property-tax problem is structural: local governments and school districts rely heavily on property taxes to...

Every so often a zip code shows up in the data looking like a typo. $931,703 for a "typical home value" in Neptune Township sounds like someone made a mistake in the numbers. That is kind of what it looks like for the 07756-zip code. It doesn't really look like...

The loss of neighborhood gathering places didn't happen overnight. For years, local businesses have faced rising operating costs, changing consumer habits, online competition, and shifting demographics. The pandemic accelerated many of these trends, but the challenges...

When people begin searching for a new home, they often focus on square footage, school districts, taxes, and commute times. Those are all important considerations, but another factor is quietly shaping the quality of life in communities across America: the...

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FREEHOLD, NJ — The Monmouth County Board of County Commissioners has purchased a vacant historic train station in Freehold Borough, with plans to renovate the building as a visitor center for the nearby Henry Hudson Trail. The County completed the purchase of the...