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August Existing Sales for Monmouth and Ocean Counties
Monmouth County Single Family Homes for August Key Metrics 2025 2028 Change New Listings 680 633 – 6.9% Closed Sales 502 536 + 6.8% DOM* 28 28 0.0% Median PX $786K $815K ...
The Cost of New Jersey Real Estate Reflects What People Want – Part 4
This doesn’t imply that every high price is justified. It means that every community will perform based upon its ability to offer buyers what they want. But this does help explain the dynamic between prices and demand. When a state combines strong household incomes,...
New Jersey August Existing Sales
U.S. existing-home sales edged down 1.7% from the previous month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.06 million units, according to the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). Regionally, sales increased in the Northeast, held steady in the West, and declined...
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New Jersey’s Secret Is Out – Part 3
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...
The Jersey Shore Is No Longer Just a Summer Address – Part 2
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 – The New Metroburg of the East – Part 1
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....
You May Be Getting More Scam Emails
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...
Happy Labor Day from Counsellors Title
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 Real Estate Tips: What New Jersey Buyers and Sellers Should Know
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...
Taking NJ Taxes Down
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...
Why the Ocean Grove Market Is An Exception
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...
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