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It All Starts with Timing of the Launch When a home goes live is almost as much as what how well it is priced. A Wednesday or Thursday launch gives buyers the weekend to walk through in person and lets an open house build real momentum heading into a deadline....

How a Bidding War Actually Starts (It's Not Luck) Sellers ask their agent for a bidding war the way people ask for good weather on their wedding day — as if wanting it badly enough might be the deciding factor. It isn't. By the time the "For Sale" sign goes into the...

Hudson County Single Family Homes for August Key Metrics       2025       2026     Change New Listings      80          108      + 35.0% Closed Sales     56            54       – 3.6% DOM*                28            25        – 10.7% Median PX       $623K   $638K   ...

Bergen and Passaic Counties Bergen County Single Family Homes for August Key Metrics         2025       2026     Change New Listings        516        578     + 12.0% Closed Sales        578        548     – 5.2% DOM*                    31         30     – 3.2% Median...

Morris and Middlesex Counties Morris County Single Family Homes for August Key Metrics       2025       2026     Change New Listings       366        430     + 17.5% Closed Sales      385        394     + 2.3% DOM*                  28          24     – 14.3% Median...

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   ...

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,...

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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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....