New Jersey January Market Trends • Single Family Closed Sales were up 13.1% to 4,930. • Townhouse-Condo Closed Sales were up 7.4% to 1,438. • Adult Communities Closed Sales were up 16.4% to 440. • Single Family Median Sales Price increased 1.1% to $288,000. •...

According to the website Zillow, there is a surge of unmarried Millennial couples purchasing homes. The numbers have increased 36%: from 11% in 2005 to 15% in 2016. [Millennials range between the ages of 24 and 35.] This is leading to couples forsaking a marriage...

January Existing Home Sales Reflect Robust Buyer Demand for Spring The National Association of Realtors® reported that all major regions except for the Midwest saw sales gains for January 2016. Existing-home sales stepped out to a fast start in 2017, surpassing a...

A property title is the legal right that a person has to the ownership and possession of land.  If that prior claim can be established, that person may claim an interest in the property outright or make demands on the owner as to its use. How quickly can Counsellors...

The drop in the number of mortgage applications for the last week doesn't seem to be resulting in a softening of the real estate market. Mortgage Bankers Association reported that total mortgage application volume increased 2.3% on a seasonally adjusted basis for the...

Lunch & Learn Come learn about the US DA Loan Program and discover how to sell more homes using this $0 down payment loan. Convert Rental Leads to Buyers Market Your Listings Flexible Guidelines Q&A Networking with guests and co-sponsors: Michael Mathews...

U.S. housing starts fell slightly for January 2017. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, total 1.25M in Jan vs. 1.22M starts expected. The housing starts declined 2.6% to an adjusted annual rate of 1.25 million units. Still, December's starts were revised...

Presidents’ Day is an American holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February. Originally established in 1885 in recognition of President George Washington, it is still officially called “Washington’s Birthday” by the federal government. Traditionally celebrated...

Nearly nine-in-ten Americans today are online, up from about half in the early 2000s. Pew Research Center has chronicled this trend and others through more than 15 years of surveys on Internet and technology use. They released a new set of fact sheets that will be...

Shore properties were being scooped up in the second weak in January in some shore towns such as Bradley Beach. Usually rentals don’t post until February, but this year seems the inventory shortage is having an effect on summer rentals as well. The good thing about...

Another Internet Company in NJ It was recently reported that Blue Apron is planning to expand its operations to Linden, New Jersey. Blue Apron is a leading fresh-meal kit delivery company based in New York City. The company expects to employ over 2,000 people in the...

Seriously underwater properties are down by 1 million from 2015. According to ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s largest fused property database, the number of equity rich U.S. properties increased by 1.3 million from 2015. The ATTOM Data Solutions report...