Category Archives: General

From Bloomberg: New Jersey Home Prices Head for 12% Drop on Bottom-Feeder Feast The housing market in New Jersey is about to get crushed. Home sales in the state, second only to New York in coronavirus cases, may fall as … Continue reading →

From TechCrunch: Commercial real estate could be in trouble — even after this is over Commercial real estate owners, brokers, and landlords have collectively made many hundreds of billions of dollars a year in recent years as the economy zipped … Continue reading →

From MarketWatch: This hard truth about the mortgage markets isn’t being told Everyone wants to know what impact the coronavirus and the government response to it will have on housing markets. While it is too early to hazard a guess, … Continue reading →

From Forbes: The Latest Numbers On Coronavirus’ Impact On The Residential Real Estate Market Realtor.com just released its latest numbers on COVID-19’s impact on the national residential real estate market. The data tracked is for the month of March, which not … Continue reading →

From the Star Ledger: Selling or buying a home? See how coronavirus is affecting the real estate market in N.J. Real estate agents are still working, but they said many buyers and sellers are putting their plans on hold. “I … Continue reading →

From the Star Ledger: Trump says he may quarantine parts of N.J. in coronavirus crisis  President Donald Trump said Saturday he is considering imposing a two-week quarantine on parts of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut to stop the spread of the coronavirus. … Continue reading →

Who knew we were still popular?

From the Star Ledger: N.J. liquor stores deemed essential, will stay open during coronavirus shutdown With the coronavirus wreaking havoc on lives the world over, it’s fair to say that everyone is feeling more stressed than normal. Luckily, Gov. Phil Murphy’s order … Continue reading →

Well, at this rate, we might as well keep this going for a while. From the Record: NJ sets voluntary statewide curfew, and casinos, bars, gyms closing until further notice New Jerseyans should not leave their homes from 8 p.m. … Continue reading →

From the NYT: Housing Is Already in a Slump. So It (Probably) Can’t Cause a Recession. The United States has had 11 recessions since the end of World War II. All but two were preceded by a big decline in … Continue reading →

From the WSJ: ‘My Clients Are Fleeing NJ Like It’s on Fire’ That headline arrives via email from a money manager in northern New Jersey. The Garden State already has the third largest overall tax burden and the country’s highest … Continue reading →

This is becoming a tradition around here, so here we go again! You know how this works, break out the crystal balls and prognosticate. Ground Rules Predictions provided should either be for June 30th, 2018 or December 31st, 2018, please … Continue reading →

From the NYT: What’s Your Commute Time Worth? What’s a minute spent commuting worth to home buyers? To find out, using data compiled by the appraisal company Miller Samuel, we mapped recent median sales prices for single-family homes in suburban … Continue reading →

Down at the beach and left my laptop charger at home… Carry on.