Competitive Morris County Real Estate marketplace

In today's highly competitive Morris County real estate market is has become extremely important that you hire the best. 

It used to be that a Morris County home owner could hire any REALTOR who would put their home into the Morris County MLS and be assured that their home would sell. 

Oh how times have changed!  Now a days most of the home buyers are searching online for their next home, and they are not working with a Morris County REALTOR until near the end of their home search.  By the time they contact a Morris County REALTOR they have spend on average the better part of 5 months looking at towns, they usually have a top 5 or 6 homes picked out and chances are better then 50 50 that one of those top…

In these times of homes for sale sitting on the market for 90 to 180 days, many times not selling at all, it is such a pleasure when as a REALTOR you get the chance to work with a home seller who is willing to listen to everything you advise them of and actually follow your advice.

I got to experence this once again recently.  I went to the potential clients home, and gave them my honest opinion on the condition of their home and how likely I thought it was that it would even attract a offer at all.  The home owners and I made up a list of improvements which they could complete in 3 weeks time and then we put the list into a priority order.  The home owners worked the list diligently and at the end of the 3 weeks almost everything on the list was…

Many people who live in one of the Midtown Direct towns already may know this, but that train line really helps property values.  It looks like in the future the Midtown Direct train line will enhance property values even more than it does today.

With fuel prices looking like they will be $3 or higher for the foreseeable future and more and more people trying to be eco friendly there are going to be more and more people wanting the ability to walk or bike to a train station so that they can commute into New York City or some of the Eastern New Jersey cities. 

When looking for a home in Northern New Jersey, you would be very wise to keep this trend in mind and give the train line towns extra consideration.

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Chatham New Jersey has 106 homes currently for sale. That seems like a lot of homes for sale but it really is not that many. During this state wide real estate downturn Chatham and the surrounding communities have been holding up much better than New Jersey as a whole. This is due in large part to the excellent school system offered in Chatham, as well as comparatively low property taxes, and easy access to New York City by the Midtown Direct train line running though Chatham.

Currently the average days on the market for a Chatham NJ home to sell is about 73.  That is not bad considering the stories we hear about other markets with average days on market hovering around 150 and in some cases 200 days on market.

If you would like to take a look at the…

There are currently 107 Chatham NJ Homes For Sale as of Feb 14th 2008.

The homes currently for sale in Chatham New Jersey range from $299,000 all the way up to $3,250,000 with a average days on market equaling 69.6 but the median days on market is only 39.

The real estate market in Chatham New Jersey seems to continue to be strong this spring of 2008, but don't be fooled.  It is not a sellers market.  The homes that are selling are those which are competitively priced and offer the Chatham home buyer a very good value.

Are you wanting to look at the homes for sale in Chatham New Jersey? 

                 Check out Chatham NJ Homes For Sale 

There you will find all the homes currently listed for sale in our MLS service for Chatham New Jersey.

Have a…

Or better said, how do New Jersey home buyers search for homes on the internet.  Many times they will go to such places as REALTOR.com or to one of the third party companies who put some of the listings up hoping to draw people to there websites. 

Usually though they go to places like Google and do a search.  What do they search though?  Usually they search something that just comes naturally, something like New Jersey MLS Search or Search The New Jersey MLS. 

What does the National Association of REALTORS want the public to think of when they want to search for homes?

They want the public to think of some thing like:

Search New Jersey Homes For Sale

But how likely is it that the National Association of REALTORS is going to be able to get the public…

Many home sellers here in New Jersey seem to be totally in the dark about this question.  These home sellers do not seem to understand that today's home buyer does not wish to deal with contractors, trying to be creative in figuring out how to update a home which has not been up to date since it was built 30 to 50 years ago.

Today's New Jersey home buyer is looking for the following:

• Fresh and contemporary colors
• New or newer appliances in the Kitchen
• New or in very good shape cabinets in the kitchen which accentuate the positives of the home not the negatives of the home.
• Up to date bathrooms.
• Great curb appeal, many times a home buyer will not even go into a home which does not have this.

If you look at your home with a…

With The Latest Interest Rate Cute, The New Jersey Midtown Direct Real Estate Markets Should Strengthen Even More!!

January 26th 2008 and the buyers keep coming out of the wood work.  This sure is not like January 2007 when NJ REALTORS may as well have gone on vacation for a few months for the few actual home buyers who were at at that time.  This year January feels more like a typical April Real Estate market. 

One problem though!  There sure are not that many homes out there which are properly priced.  Too many New Jersey home sellers still have there homes priced more than 5% above where their house should be priced.  OK I said 5% but that 5% is a magic number, usually home buyers don't even want to look at homes which are that much or more over…