Read Why This Couple Chose West Orange, NJ As A Place To Call Home

I had a great time meeting and getting to know my new clients that just purchased a home in West Orange, New Jersey. It was fun showing them what the real estate market is all about and answering all their questions. I look forward to hanging out with them as the years past us by. [...]

Real Estate Recovery Is All In The Numbers You Follow: March Sales and Real Estate Demand

You continue to read and hear of signs the real estate market is improving; we wrote about just that in our February market report. Regardless of what the analysts say or what REALTORS® say, my real estate partner Robert Meaux and I know homeowners will look skeptical upon this until we can start to say [...]

Pending Home Sales 2nd Week of April Almost Hits 60 Across 8 NJ Towns

NJ Pending Home Sales Tracker: April 8 – April 14, 2012 Nutley joined West Orange in the double-digit category with the towns achieving 10 and 12 new pending home sales last week, respectively. It is not often to see double-digits in Nutley, which also landed the town in the #1 spot with the highest percentage [...]

What To Do With All That Extra Paint?

Whether you are buying or selling a home, the age old question of, “What do I do with all that extra paint?” comes up. This is time to add a helpful action step to your calendar. There’s a Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Saturday, May 5 from  8:30am – 4:00pm at the Essex County [...]

Q&A Series: Real Estate Uncovered, vol 1, iss 3

People ask me and my real estate partner and husband Bob Meaux real estate questions all the time. We know many other people are probably asking the same questions. Here’s where Real Estate Uncovered comes in. Periodically I will post Q&As we’ve discussed with someone or respond to questions we’ve heard from others. If you [...]

Even with the Holidays, Pending Sales Continued Strong Across 8 Towns

NJ Pending Home Sales Tracker: April 1 – April 7, 2012 There weren’t any April Fools here. While many celebrated Passover and Easter shortening the business week for lawyers to get through contracts, 56 residential homes still made it under contract and became pending sales. Although West Orange, NJ and Millburn/Short Hills, NJ are going [...]

Pending Real Estate Sales Continued Strong But Not as High

NJ Pending Home Sales Tracker: March 25 – March 31, 2012 The Towns Dropped From 71 to 59 This Week But These Results Are Still Good Of course, we all prefer to stay above 60 and 70 through the Spring market, but 59 is nothing to laugh at. The desire is for all of these [...]

Pending Home Sale Numbers Continue to Rise: March 18 – 24, 2012

NJ Pending Home Sales Tracker: March 18 – March 24, 2012 Previous Week 69, This Week 71…What a Way to Go!   We haven’t seen the seventies in pending sales of these total 8 towns in months, so this is a good feeling for the marketplace. Hitting 71 homes going under contract the week of [...]