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As of late there are all these different websites popping up wanting to be your source for information about Morristown New Jersey.  Many of these sites are mainly about selling ad space to people such as Morristown REALTORS, and Morristown Mortgage Brokers, and many other businesses in and about town. 

To be honest, one of these sites approached me in the early summer asking me to buy the rights to my town.  Their deal was $200 to start and then there was a monthly fee.  They also had this scheme where they wanted me to go around to different business in town selling them possitions on the site.  In exchange for selling these possitions they were offering discounts off of the monthly fees.  I thought about it for a bit, and then decided that I would need…

The Convent Station Real Estate market has been fairly busy as of late.  With 13 homes closing and transferring to their new owners in August I can say this is better than what took place in August of 2007.  

Convent Station tends to be the most popular area of the Morris twp. Real Estate marketplace.

Here are the homes and sold prices for last months Convent Station real estate transfers:

The month of August 08 has come to a close with 23 homes listed for sale in Morristown NJ sold.  This is a small improvment, but it is a improvment and the signs continue to come in that the Morristown NJ real estate market has bottomed.

Home seller have gotten the hint over and over again and now we are seeing the median number of days to sell at 65 days.  There are still quite a number of homes on the market which have been sitting out there for 100 or more days.  Some of these homes I really in my own mind don't consider for sale anymore.  The home seller and the real estate agents who have them listed for sale are not even trying any more.  Why do I say that?  No price reductions after 100+ days on the market, knowing the market the way I do, I can…

According to a story in the Morris NewsBee

The Morris Township Committee was expected to discuss changes to its affordable housing requirement yesterday, Wednesday, as they affect the first housing plan to come under those requirements, a property on James Street approved last year for 92 townhouses.

Mayor Nace said the development under consideration for Wednesday, the site of an old Verizon building, could very easily result in the owner of the property walking away and selling the land to a church or another non-taxpaying entity.

I am all for affordable housing and think that the Eastern parts of Morris County have way to little affordable housing.  Heck you cannot even rent a decent 1 bedroom apartment in Morristown or Madison for less than $1,500 a…

Yesterday was the day to treat my mother in-law to a trip into Manhattan NYC.  We decided to see a Broadway show, Mamma Mia to be exact.  This was our chance to take the Midtown Direct Train into the city and just enjoy ourselves.  Other than the show, no agenda, no traffic, no parking, just get on the train and relax.

Let me first say, the show was excelent, I highly recomend it.  The show was very funny, but very entertaining and fun at the same time.  Have not seen the movie yet but I am told that it is very good as well but for different reasons.

So why am I writing about this on a real estate blog?  Many people would like to live a more suburban life but still work in Manhattan.  Heck, many people do that now actually.  In my neighborhood (Convent…

Harding New Jersey, located just south of the Eastern section of Morris Twp. (Convent Station) and Madison New Jersey is one of those towns with a very nice mix of older stately homes, and newer Luxury homes.  For the luxury home buyer there is a little of everything to be found.

There are currently 54 homes on the market in Harding Twp. New Jersey.  With the lowest priced home being a $499,900 2 bedroom 2.5 bath condo at Harding Green, and the highest being a $16,650,000 4 bedroom 2.5 bath mansion situated on 22+ acres in the New Vernon section of Harding Twp.  The current average price of a home activly for sale in Harding Twp. is $3,982,050 and the average home currently for sale has been on the market for 130 days now.

Harding New Jersey sold home…

When people think of Luxury real estate along the Midtown Direct New Jersey Transit train line, they normally think of Millburn / Short Hills, & Summit New Jersey.  Of course there is Luxury real estate in other towns as well.

South Orange is especially great in that it is a few stops closer in to Manhattan on the Midtown Direct train line.  You also get more for your money in South Orange than you do in many of the other well known towns.

Here are the Luxury homes which have sold in South Orange NJ so far this year.

Thinking of buying or selling a home in…

Right in the middle of what the news media would have you believe is a period of time where nobody should or is buying homes, the tiny Florham Park NJ Real Estate market chocked up 8 home sale & transfers for the month of June 2008.

Are are the homes which sold in Florham Park New Jersey, the addresses and the prices at which these homes sold.

• 38  Park Street 10-G  TwnIntUn $400,000  192 DOM
• 119  BEECHWOOD RD  SplitLev $430,000  55 DOM
• 64  Edgewood Drive  SplitLev $590,000  29 DOM
• 149  Braidburn Road  Colonial $777,500  14 DOM
• 10  CARRIGAN LN  Colonial $860,000  26 DOM
• 40  PUDDINGSTONE WAY  Colonial $999,000  51 DOM
• 1  Loveys Dr  Colonial $1,340,000  45 DOM
• 6  DELAWARE RD  Colonial $1,325,000  70 DOM

As you can…