Category: Real Estate Trends

It’sbeen a difficult year for the real estate market in New Jersey. By most accounts, the economy nationwide is improving, and the recession is fading. However, a year after Superstorm Sandy, many communities in New Jersey are still strugg…

There’s a reason that film directors, when making movies, first call for LIGHTS before CAMERA and ACTION. Lighting sets the tone for the entire picture. Soft lighting makes a pretty face even prettier (or a not-so pretty one, not half-bad)…

There are lots of ways for homebuyers to find properties for sale, but regardless of whether one finds their prospective dream house online, sees a “For Sale” sign in a building, or gets a hot tip word-of-mouth, at some point buyer and pro…

Whether you live in a leafy suburb or in a high-rise co-op in Fort Lee, life is expensive. Sometimes it can feel as though everybody from the barista at your favorite coffee shop to the kid who sacks your groceries is trying to nickel-and-…

Time was, a nice spacious condo unit with a good location, a decent view and several basic amenities like a laundry room, a doorman and a gym or pool were what Garden State buyers wanted when they went home-shopping. However, as more build…

 In the ongoing effort to limit the non-smoking public's exposure to second-hand  cigarette smoke, municipal governments across the country are coming up with  increasingly strict bans on smoking in public places—even on public streets and…

 Whether condo associations will buy into the so-called “electric highway” has become the perennial $64,000 question.    And the answer? The electric vehicle or EV revolution is coming, albeit slowly.    ChargePoint, Inc., th…

 Bob Dylan famously sang, “The times, they are a-changin’,”and they sure have—according to findings by Pew Research, for the next 17 years, 10,000 Baby  Boomers will turn 65 every day. This staggering number (which includes Mr.  Dylan hims…

 With the price of gasoline rising, daily traffic snarls, a desire to live a  healthier life and the responsibility to lessen the effect of one's carbon  footprint, there are many reasons to own a bike.    Buying the bike is just th…

 When you think of landscaping, you probably don’t think of a swanky Hoboken co-op, condo or HOA building. After all, landscaping  in the usual sense is typically reserved for suburban homes where there is  rolling turf, strategically plac…