Good news for prospective buyers looking for homes in Glen Ridge: I have a new listing for a great house at a great price. 8 Hathaway Place is a very pretty four-bedroom Colonial in the north end of town. This home has all the charming architectural details one would expect from a home built in 1920, but it also has modern conveniences such [...]
As someone who makes a living helping people buy and sell homes in New Jersey, I have a lot of respect for a former Goldman Sachs banker named John R. Talbott. Talbott clearly understands housing markets; he saw the coming collapse long before many industry professionals did. In 2003 he published [...]
Here's a scenario: New home buyer-client comes to me to find a house. My first question to them is always "how important is it that you can walk to the train and to shopping?" My second question is then "Have you been pre-qualified for a mortgage?". If it's from a lender I'm familiar with we're all set to go look at houses. If it's from [...]
Sometimes a house just has the right combination of elements -- location, price and space. 2 Dalebrook Road, in Bloomfield earns high marks on any walkability scale. It's close to Brookdale' s interesting ethnic restaurants-- Stamna (Greek), Boonsong (Thai) and Bar Cara (Italian). Houses of worship-- Temple Ner Tamid and the Watchung Presbyterian Church-- are literally steps away, as is Bloomfield Middle School. For commuters, the [...]
When Voltaire said "The perfect is the enemy of the good," he wasn't philosophizing about buying real estate in Essex County NJ, but I often remind my buyers of the wisdom of his words and how it applies to their home search. During my years as a New Jersey real estate agent I have watched many good houses get passed over by clients who are [...]
