Home sellers in Glen Ridge and Montclair often ask me- should I renovate my kitchen before putting it on the market?  There is not always a straightforward answer but this may lend some insight.

Real estate is always a "good news-bad news" business. The most obvious example of this is an overheated market: great news for home sellers, lousy news for home buyers.  An article I read recently in [...]

A recent New York Times article discusses the rise in short sales in Manhattan due to the recession. One market analyst said "2010 might well be dubbed the Year of the Short Sale nationally. 'A short sale is going to be the only way for many people who bought at the peak and who are now underwater to move on with their lives if they have [...]

Glen Ridge, the beautiful little town that's a short walk to the Bloomfield train to NYC, is teaching its children the blues. Local teacher and longtime musician Paul Byrne will be teaching children ages 7-11 the fundamentals of blues music with hands-on learning and a performance at the end of the 4-day program. This program is aimed at all [...]

After closing on their bank-owned Colonial in Verona, one of the first "improvements" Bil and Ashli made was to add a vegetable garden to their backyard. They are predicting a prolific harvest of beans, onions, tomatoes, and Chinese sweet potatoes, of which they only eat the [...]