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New Jersey’s Film Boom Is a Real Estate Signal – Part 2
Where to Watch for Opportunity: This is where your “attention muscle” comes in. The opportunity isn’t just “film is growing.” —It’s where that growth touches housing. Areas Near Studio Development • Fort Monmouth • Bayonne • Newark These are not just...
New Jersey’s Film Boom Is a Real Estate Signal – Part 1
Opportunities Like This Are Rare While much of the country is seeing a slowdown in film and television production, one state is quietly moving in the opposite direction: New Jersey. Filming activity across the U.S. declined in the first quarter of the year, with...
How New Jersey Home Buyers Are Using AI – Part 4
Not So Fast AI – Part 4 Where AI analysis can go wrong: • Inaccurate property records feed into flawed valuation outputs — garbage in, garbage out • AI can produce confident-sounding estimates for properties with limited comparable sales data, where confidence isn't...
March Sales for Morris & Middlesex Counties
Morris and Middlesex Counties Morris County Single Family Homes for March Key Metrics 2025 2026 Change New Listings 439 423 – 3.6% Closed Sales 228 191 – 16.2% DOM* 36 33 – 8.3%...
March Sales for Monmouth & Ocean Counties
Monmouth County Single Family Homes for March Key Metrics 2025 2026 Change New Listings 701 667 – 4.8% Closed Sales 329 317 – 3.6% DOM* 39 43 + 10.3% Median PX $750K ...
How New Jersey Home Buyers Are Using AI – Part 3
What AI Gets Wrong — and Why Your Agent Still Matters More Than Ever The limits of AI in a New Jersey home search — and the case for experienced guidance Part One of this series covered how AI tools have given New Jersey home buyers real advantages: sharper pricing...
Frigid Winter Bottles-up Demand on Jersey Shore Real Estate Market
This winter was especially disabling for the New Jersey real estate market. With multiple snowstorms and sub-normal temperatures, buyers and sellers appeared sequestered until the weather broke. It was one of the coldest winters in decades for Monmouth and Ocean...
New Jersey Sales for Existing Homes for March
U.S. existing-home sales unexpectedly rose 1.7% month-over-month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million, as lower mortgage rates helped boost buyer activity, according to the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). Monthly sales increased in the...
How New Jersey Home Buyers Are Using AI – Part 2
The AI Homebuyer What buyers are actually using AI for The most common use case is pricing verification. Before making an offer, buyers are running properties through AI-powered automated valuation models (AVMs) to get an independent read on whether the listing price...
How New Jersey Home Buyers Are Using AI – Part 1
How Buyers Are Finding Their Next Home Artificial intelligence has moved well past the hype stage in real estate. Here's what buyers in New Jersey are actually doing with it — and what it means for your home search. If you've bought a home in New Jersey in the past...
“Let’s Work Together” — When Language Becomes a Costume
Let’s stop saying this phrase because it no longer means what it once did. What it appears to say is: “Let’s work together on this project, and we’ll both get paid.” In the U.S. economy, work is always tethered to usually a monetary reward, or significant shared...
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