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In parts of Northern New Jersey, high-end listings are moving faster and attracting more competitive offers than entry-level homes. For buyers who assumed affordable properties were the hot ticket, the numbers say otherwise. Mark Slade, founder and team lead of The Mark Slade Homes Team at Keller Williams in Northern New Jersey, tracks weekly sales ...

If you’ve been house hunting in northern New Jersey, you may have noticed a frustrating trend: entry-level homes are vanishing before you can make an offer. Increasingly, it’s not another family beating you to the punch – it’s a builder, often paying cash. In towns like Livingston, Millburn, and Summit, builders are aggressively purchasing older, ...

Steve Marcinuk
15 Jan 2026

Northern New Jersey’s housing shortage has escalated into a severe imbalance, with economic pressures and limited inventory making it increasingly difficult for families to buy homes in desirable communities. Real estate professionals working in these markets report that conditions have reached a level where traditional buyers face intense competition and shrinking opportunities. Ellen Gonik, a ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
01 Jun 2026

Persistent inventory shortages continue to define residential real estate across Northern New Jersey’s Essex and Union County suburbs, with some towns posting over-asking premiums that even seasoned local agents haven’t seen before. As of late May 2026, data from communities like Maplewood, South Orange, and Montclair suggest the seller’s market that took hold during the ...

Heather Hook
07 Jul 2026

The standard measure most agents use to read a real estate market looks backward. Absorption rate – closed sales divided by active inventory – tells you what happened over the past six months. In a market moving as fast as Maplewood, NJ, that number is already stale by the time it lands. For nearly 17 ...

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Alejandra Rodriguez
15 Oct 2026

Central New Jersey’s housing market is no longer moving in one direction. It is splitting by geography, and the dividing line is distance from New York City. A home search that crosses county lines can mean stepping from a bidding war into a market where sellers are cutting prices – sometimes within a 20-mile drive. ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
05 Oct 2026

For years, townhouses in central New Jersey served as a natural entry point for buyers priced out of single-family homes. That math is changing. Rising association fees, new mortgage review requirements for townhouse purchases, and a broader shift in buyer sentiment are creating a split, one where the housing type that was supposed to be ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
29 Sep 2026

A year ago, the biggest hurdle for a first-time buyer in northern New Jersey was getting an offer accepted. Today, the real breaking point has moved later in the process, to the home inspection. That shift hits first-time buyers harder than anyone else in the market. Augie Neno, Owner/Broker at Neno-Rosa Agency in Kearny, New ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

Madison, New Jersey has an average home sale price of $1.6 million over the past six months – up 19 percent year over year, according to Marybeth Eckhardt, a partner at Boyd Eckhardt Partners. There are currently nine homes listed for sale in the borough, two of which are already in attorney review. That leaves ...

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Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

The gap between Houston’s residential market and its coastal neighbor shows what happens when short-term rental speculation meets a correction. Harris County, Texas, currently has roughly six months of housing inventory – enough to classify it as a balanced-to-soft market where sellers need to price carefully and present homes in strong condition. But the sharper ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

The U.S. rental market built aggressively during the pandemic era, particularly in Sunbelt cities like Nashville, Austin, and Dallas. Now much of that new inventory, especially high-end apartments, is sitting partially empty, competing for renters whose budgets have tightened considerably since construction began. The disconnect is straightforward: developers built expensive Class A apartments in markets ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
09 Sep 2026

In most American markets, holding a property for ten or twelve years builds a cushion of equity. In Manhattan, that assumption no longer holds across large segments of the market, according to Nikolay Afanasyev, Founder & CEO of CITY SPHERE Property Group, a boutique brokerage covering Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Rising building carrying costs, ...

Steve Marcinuk
09 Sep 2026

For buyers waiting on the largest purchase of their lives, the appraisal process is one of the last black boxes in a home purchase. Turnaround time isn’t a single number; it’s the sum of scheduling, inspection, report production, quality review, and any revision cycles that follow, and thin appraiser panels and uncontrolled revision cycles are ...

Steve Marcinuk
28 Jul 2026

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