Category Archives: New Jersey Real Estate

March Beige Book

Posted on March 6, 2013 by grim
Posted in Economics, Housing Recovery, New Jersey Real Estate | 169 Comments

From the Federal Reserve: Beige Book – March 6, 2013 – Second District–New York Economic activity in the Second District has continued to expand at a moderate pace since the last report. Business contacts report some pickup in input price … Continue reading →

Paying the Sandy Tax

Posted on November 14, 2012 by grim
Posted in Economics, New Jersey Real Estate, Property Taxes | 172 Comments

From Bloomberg: Christie Says Damage Costs From Sandy Outside Tax Cap New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said property owners in areas devastated by Superstorm Sandy may face higher tax bills, as local governments exceed his 2 percent cap on annual … Continue reading →

Agents and Sellers “adjusted to the new pricing realities”?

Posted on December 19, 2011 by grim
Posted in Economics, Housing Bubble, Housing Recovery, New Jersey Real Estate, Price Reduced | 105 Comments

From the Record: Bergen, Passaic home prices continue to slide North Jersey home values dropped 3 percent in the first half of this year, bringing Bergen County’s median single-family home price below $400,000 for the first time since the housing … Continue reading →

CoreLogic – Northern NJ/NY Metro home prices up 2.6% YOY in October

Posted on December 7, 2011 by grim
Posted in Housing Recovery, New Jersey Real Estate | 87 Comments

From CoreLogic (no link): Home Prices Down 3.9 Percent Year-Over-Year Home prices in the U.S. decreased 1.3 percent on a month-over-month basis, the third consecutive monthly decline. According to the CoreLogic HPI, national home prices, including distressed sales, also declined … Continue reading →

Careful with that claim, you might just get screwed twice

Posted on November 1, 2011 by grim
Posted in Economics, New Jersey Real Estate | 97 Comments

From the Record: Storms may push homeowners’ insurance rates higher Homeowners’ insurance rates may go up as insurers seek to offset losses expected from the unusual pre-Halloween snowstorm that socked the region on Saturday, and from Hurricane Irene and other … Continue reading →

New Jersey Contract Sales Continue Decline

Posted on November 23, 2010 by grim
Posted in Economics, Housing Bubble, New Jersey Real Estate | 162 Comments

From the Otteau Valuation Group: MarketNEWS – November 2010 The New Jersey housing market continued to experience weak purchase demand in October due to the lingering effects of the economic recession. In October, home purchase contracts in New Jersey for … Continue reading →

Fed: Home prices “drifting down in northern New Jersey”

Posted on October 22, 2010 by grim
Posted in Economics, Housing Bubble, New Jersey Real Estate | 114 Comments

From the Federal Reserve: Beige Book – Second District–New York Construction and Real Estate Housing markets have been mixed but generally stable since the last report. Real estate contacts in both northern New Jersey and western New York State report … Continue reading →

Otteau: Slow recovery for housing, no recovery for high-end

Posted on January 12, 2010 by grim
Posted in Economics, New Jersey Real Estate | 224 Comments

From the Record: N.J. real estate prices headed up New Jersey home prices have bottomed out and will rise about 2 percent this year, real estate appraiser Jeffrey Otteau predicted Monday. “While things will get better from here, they’re going … Continue reading →

Labor Day Weekend Open Discussion

Posted on September 4, 2009 by grim
Posted in General, New Jersey Real Estate | 299 Comments

This is the time and place to post observations about your local areas, comments on news stories or the New Jersey housing market, open house reports, etc. If you have any questions you wanted to ask earlier in the week … Continue reading →

$8 $10 Billion in the Hole

Posted on July 22, 2009 by grim
Posted in New Jersey Real Estate, Property Taxes | 216 Comments

From the Courier Post: N.J. faces $10B deficit next year, report says New Jersey faces a projected budget deficit of $8 billion in its next fiscal year, as well as a shortfall of more than $2 billion in its unemployment … Continue reading →

“You just can’t afford to stay in this house”

Posted on August 24, 2008 by grim
Posted in Foreclosures, Housing Bubble, New Jersey Real Estate | 29 Comments

From the Record: In North Jersey foreclosures are up, home sales down In a painful sign of the worsening real estate downturn, foreclosure actions in North Jersey nearly tripled in the first five months of 2008 over the same period … Continue reading →

“The market value is what the market value is”

Posted on April 14, 2008 by grim
Posted in Economics, Housing Bubble, New Jersey Real Estate | 305 Comments

From the Record: How low will homes go? The number of home sales in North Jersey plummeted some 30 percent in 2007, raising the odds of a significant decline in home values beginning this year. Prices inched down only slightly … Continue reading →

Monmouth/Ocean: Home of the Housing ATM

Posted on April 13, 2008 by grim
Posted in Economics, Housing Bubble, New Jersey Real Estate | 116 Comments

From the Asbury Park Press: Borrowers used houses to get cash Proponents had once touted subprime loans as a way for some consumers to afford the American dream of homeownership. Yet new government data now show a nightmare scenario that … Continue reading →

Covered with gloom

Posted on April 7, 2008 by grim
Posted in Economics, New Jersey Real Estate | 276 Comments

From the Associated Press: Poll finds New Jerseyans feeling gloomy on economy Economic woes have New Jerseyans gloomy, a new poll has found. Forty-nine percent of respondents in the poll issued Monday by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Silberman College of Business … Continue reading →

“In this business, a deal is not done till it’s done.”

Posted on April 7, 2008 by grim
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From the Record: More deals falling through Deal — or no deal? Does a signed contract mean the property will actually sell? In a volatile housing market, the answer these days is “not necessarily.” “You start earning your commission the … Continue reading →