by Karen Eastman Bigos on May 16, 2011
The news continues to report a lack of stability in the real estate market and while thousands of sellers in NJ are either selling short or heading for foreclosure, there are very positive signs in some communities like Millburn and Short Hills, NJ, with good schools, good commutes to Manhattan and strong property values. The month of May is right smack in middle of the [...]
by Karen Eastman Bigos on February 13, 2011
If you want to be a top listing and selling agent in residential real estate in 2011, then you need to LOVE Trulia. As one of the top real estate agents in the Millburn, NJ and Short Hills, NJ markets for almost 3 decades, with over $500,000,000 in sales and 750 homes closed, being well [...]
by Karen Eastman Bigos on February 4, 2011
Take some advice from Real Estate Attorney and Tax Appeal Specialist, Mark D. Bigos from Towne Realty Group in Short Hills, NJ It is well known that New Jersey has the highest real-estate taxes in the nation, but there is a way to reduce them. If the value of your property is over assessed, you [...]
by Karen Eastman Bigos on January 30, 2011
January 2011 has been the snowiest month for New Jersey in 62 years! That is no secret. Dogs, kids and even adults are disappearing into the piles of snow that have no where else to go. “Wednesday’s snow put New Jerseyans over the state average for the winter, which stands at a little over 24 [...]
by Karen Eastman Bigos on January 19, 2011
If you have an investment property and you want to find a tenant, besides running a credit check and verifying financial stability, you always want to get a reference from the present landlord, right? Well, not always. When a tenant is a problem, most landlords will write whatever it takes to get rid of them, [...]
by Karen Eastman Bigos on January 16, 2011
Do Open Houses really work to bring in buyers? Lately, it seems there a lot of nosey neighbors and curious people passing through to get decorating tips. Sometimes people just come in to see what values are so they can conduct research to sell their own homes. Often they see a sign and have to [...]
by Karen Eastman Bigos on January 3, 2011
Here it is early January 2011 and already the phone is ringing, the website it getting hits and people are getting back to work. Wall Street is preparing to pay some bonuses and there have not been many new listings in the last month or two, due to the holidays and cold weather in NJ. So [...]
by Karen Eastman Bigos on December 21, 2010
Making friends is nothing new, but with facebook, you can actually make friends with people whom you’ve never met and develop personal relationships through your posts, photos and likes or dislikes. Social networking has given me the chance to meet and become friendly with an Internet guru named Mike Mueller from www.AreWeConnected.com. He lives in [...]
by Karen Eastman Bigos on December 15, 2010
Despite the media reports that Real Estate is a bad investment and that the last few years has strictly been a buyers’ market, with short sales and foreclosures building all over the country, homes in Short Hills NJ continue to sell with multiple offers and over the list price. This is not the case for every home, but [...]
by Karen Eastman Bigos on December 7, 2010
Towne Realty Group in Short Hills, NJ continues to grow in Northern New Jersey real estate marketplace. Even when other companies are cutting back and losing ground, our numbers say it all. Take a look at our growth from 2009 compared to 2010 in the first 10 months: • 75% increase in referral income • 42% [...]