Counsellors Title Agency Hours of Operation

Counsellors Title will close at 4:30pm Friday, June 30th and will reopen Wednesday, July 5th, at 8:30am. We wish all of our friends and clients a fantastic, safe and happy 4th of July. Celebrating the Greatest Country in the World: The United States of...

Harvard on Housing

HOUSING AFFORDABILITY Here are some of the big take-aways from Harvard report on Joint Center for Housing Studies: ■ The government considers people who spend over 30% of their income on housing to be “cost-burdened.” ■ People who spend more than 50% of their income...

Home Prices Increase Again in April

According to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, nationwide, home prices increased in April, from the previous month and for the previous year. The numbers showed that home prices increased 0.7% month-over-month in April. The trend projects that the average home price...

Monmouth County Closed Sales Up 24 Percent

Single Family Ocean County May 2017 Metrics                2016     2017      Change New Listings      1,378    1,342     – 2.6% Closed Sales          634       756     + 19.2% Days to Close          96         82     – 14.6% Median Sales Px $294K $310K  + 5.4% % of...

NJ Single Family Closed Sales Up 15 Percent

Closed sales for single family homes, townhouse-condos and adult community all up by double digits for the first time in recent memory. The buying frenzy is fomenting one of the hottest real estate markets in the last 50 years. Currently there is less than 6 months...