Many real estate agents hate Zillow.   But not for the reason you think.  When Zillow was launched a couple of years ago the word on the street was that agents would lose their usefulness in helping sellers determine their home's value.  That turns out to be far from the truth--which is that agents have to spend an awful lot of time [...]

When I walk to Watchung Plaza from my Montclair home, I take a short route  through an interconnected grid of streets and through a small park.  I wave to my neighbor on the way.  I stop for a brief minute in the park to chat with a friend who's on her way home from work (she's just gotten off the 5:31 [...]

For years, New Jersey was sprawling westward, northward, and southward with real estate development in formerly rural areas. Now the recession has hit and so many of those big new shiny houses a couple of hours outside the city are losing value rapidly--despite their newness, their immense pasture-like lawns, and quiet isolation. What seemed [...]