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Many first-time buyers in New Jersey delay purchasing for years because they believe they need 20 percent down. According to Anastasia Cafiero, a Realtor with Realty ONE Group Central who serves Monmouth County’s Freehold, Marlboro, and Manalapan areas, that belief is wrong, and the actual entry point is low enough that some renters could buy ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
17 Jul 2026

National housing data suggests a cooling market, but Monmouth County, New Jersey contradicts that narrative. Inventory sits at 2.7 months of supply – roughly half the five-to-six-month threshold that would indicate balance – and prices continue to climb despite mortgage rates near 6.5%, according to Anastasia Cafiero, a Realtor with Realty ONE Group Central who ...

If you picture the Jersey Shore as a seasonal beach market that quiets down after Labor Day, the reality on the ground no longer matches. A major entertainment studio is under construction, year-round residents are replacing seasonal vacationers, and home prices are climbing with limited inventory to absorb new demand. Joseph York, a Broker Associate ...

Heather Hook
28 May 2026

There is a version of house hunting that most buyers don’t realize they’re doing. They walk into a home, see something they don’t like: the cabinet color, the cluttered layout, the missing amenity, and mentally cross it off the list before they’ve spent five minutes inside. Carly Ringer, a residential real estate agent with Keller ...

In a market where well-maintained homes attract offers within days of listing, a different category of property is quietly stacking up unsold in Ocean County, New Jersey: houses that need work. The pattern agents describe is not subtle. Move-in-ready homes fly. Homes needing renovation linger – sometimes for weeks, sometimes longer. The reason is that ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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28 Jul 2026

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