A few weeks ago, The New York Times ran an Op-Ed piece called "The Death of the Fringe Suburb." The author, Christopher Leinberger, discusses the collapse of outer-ring suburbs and return to popularity of urban and inner-suburban housing. As a New Jersey Realtor, I feel sadness and concern about the decline of any housing market. I find it [...]

One of the things I love most about Montclair is its diversity. Over the 20 years that I've lived here, I've  become friends with a number of people whom I probably would never have even gotten to meet in a more homogeneous suburb. These friends come from different religious,  ethnic and economic backgrounds from my own. I was thinking [...]

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 [...]