Monthly Archives: July 2006

From the Holmdel Independent: One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure BY KAREN E. BOWES It’s not easy being green, especially in Central Jersey, where sometimes the only open space left is the result of long-abandoned garbage dumps. Andy Willner, … Continue reading →

Observations about your local areas, comments on news stories or the New Jersey housing bubble, Open House reports, etc. If you have any questions you wanted to ask earlier in the week but never posted them up, let’s have them. … Continue reading →

From Realty Times: Back to Basics: Common Sense Real Estate 101 by Jim Crawford Real estate is cyclical by nature. And in our current market, conditions are rapidly changing both in my market and across the nation. When showing homes … Continue reading →

From the Daily Reckoning: America’s housing bubble By Bill Bonner Tomorrow is the 4th of July. Independence Day for the United States, the land of immigrants. Many people in America are taking a long holiday weekend. But here at The … Continue reading →

From the Asbury Park Press: Condos may replace rides at Funtown Pier BY JOE ZEDALIS The Borough Council will hear a proposal Wednesday from the owner of Funtown Pier about turning the 77-year-old amusement venue into condominiums. Mayor Robert Matthies … Continue reading →

From the Center for Economic and Policy Research: Fed Treading on Thin Ice as U.S. Housing Bubble Weakens By Mark Weisbrot Everyone recognizes that the U.S. economy is slowing, but the question is, how bad will it get? One disturbing … Continue reading →

From the Wall Street Journal Online: Sellers Find It Difficult to Set A Price in a Volatile Market A year or two ago, pricing a house was simple. Sellers only had to look at what their neighbors were charging, add … Continue reading →

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Soft landing or hard? Maybe the economy is coming in for a soft landing. Or maybe you’d better fasten your seat belt and hold on tight. Most economists seem to agree: The economy, which turned in … Continue reading →

From Bloomberg: Global Housing Boom May Cool Slowly, Avoiding a Crippling Bust The biggest global housing boom in three decades may end not with a bang, but with an extended whimper that will keep the economy growing. Markets for dwellings … Continue reading →

From the Record: ‘Next Big Thing’ in Wood-Ridge By JAMES AHEARN A TRENDY, large but human-scaled “New Urbanism” development is to begin rising this fall in Wood-Ridge, an unpretentious town of 7,600 people in southern Bergen County. Wood-Ridge is a … Continue reading →

Observations about your local areas, comments on news stories or the New Jersey housing bubble, Open House reports, etc. If you have any questions you wanted to ask earlier in the week but never posted them up, let’s have them. … Continue reading →

From The Street: Maven: No House Party By Marek Fuchs Let me explain. From the conglomerates of the 1960s on to the Internet of the 1990s and real estate of the current decade, overvalued markets are always justified by the … Continue reading →

From the Asbury Park Press: Housing bubble looms on horizon By Al Hassinger Real estate has been a hot topic. Owners talk about the latest house that sold or is listed in their area or the money a friend made … Continue reading →

From the Daily Record: A Morris family farm awaits its fate Steven Linz said he could not talk much about the state’s proposal to take a chunk of his farm and turn it into wetlands. His family has owned the … Continue reading →

From the Asbury Park Press: What does $1 million buy you? BY DAVID P. WILLIS The real estate market might be cooling off, but with five consecutive years of double-digit growth in home prices in Monmouth and Ocean counties, it’s … Continue reading →