Earlier this week, three Americans were awarded the Nobel prize for economics. According to the article I read about them in The Washington Post, their work has helped unify the theories behind asset pricing. Although I'm not a numbers geek, one of the winners has spent years studying housing markets, so I was very interested to learn [...]
I recently read an article in The Sacramento Bee that confirmed what I've suspected for a long time: Americans know that walking is good for their health and that they aren't doing enough of it. According to a survey commissioned by the major health-care provider Kaiser Permanente, a whopping 94% of Americans recognize the physical and [...]
Regular readers of my blog know that I tend to write about general trends and issues of interest to home-buyers and sellers; Occasionally I write a post about a specific piece of real estate. Today I have a listing for a home that strikes me as quintessential [...]
According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, Americans are increasingly choosing to live in walkable communities, like Montclair, where there are more transportation choices that allow residents to live free of traffic jams and closer to their jobs, shopping and schools. The personal freedom, minimized carbon footprint, and [...]
It's official - summer is all but over. So the next item on Montclair's agenda must be back to school. What makes this year even better than most is that three of Montclair's elementary schools, and the township as a whole, have been recognized by the NJ Safe Routes to School program for their work toward making Montclair a safe place for our children to walk or ride their bicycles to [...]
I recently saw a street sign that perfectly sums up Montclair. This sign is on the corner of Bloomfield Avenue and North Willow Street and is part of the new "way-finding" project that the town has recently implemented. It has arrows directing which way to go in order to get to various destinations in town, but what makes the sign so cool [...]
