Bergen County Real Estate - Some Things You Should Know
Topics: Bergen County real estate
Bergen County real estate fared quite well in NJ Monthly magazine’s list of 100 Top Towns: Best Places to Live, showing (from a total of 72) 18 towns, boroughs and villages that placed in the top 100, with Mahwah Township coming in at number 9.
This 25,000 strong town has a growing population and a still-affordable $425,000 median family home purchase price. The most affordable place to live in Bergen County real estate that made the top 100 is Ridgefield Park Village where house prices average at less than $385,000.
Bergen County forms part of the New York Metropolitan area, which may account for the fact that it has the highest county population in the state. You can commute to Manhattan for work or entertainment, while still living in a safe, family-friendly neighborhood.
Because it’s also one of the highest-income counties in the country, Bergen County offers a lifestyle that (while not out of reach by most) is extremely attractive. However, one of the drawbacks to living in Bergen County is that your property tax bill is likely to be one of the highest in the nation, so you may wish to take that factor into consideration when buying in the area.
There’s also a quirk about Sunday shopping in Bergen county, where the laws allow only grocery stores (and not the major chains or retail outlets) to operate — and it doesn’t look like something that will change any time soon.
If you are selling your current home in order to move, and trying to spruce it up a bit to get the best price possible, the most effective upgrades in terms of cost recovery is window or siding replacement or a minor kitchen remodel.
If you go for anything more than a minor upgrade in the kitchen, your recoup cost drops from the 85 percent range by as much as ten percent. Even worse, if you renovate an area in your home like a den or sunroom, you’ll only get a bit more than half of that investment back.
Wherever you decide to buy, do have a home inspection done (either before you make your offer or by making the offer conditional on the inspection findings). Ensure that the inspector is a NJ Licensed Home Inspector, and that his or her name (or the name of the Inspector of Record for multi-inspector company) is on the business card, together with the NJ Licensed Home Inspector Number, which starts with either the code 24 or GI, as well as a street address and telephone number.
RE/MAX of New Jersey (www.remax-nj.com) is a real setate brokerage that specializes in Bergen County real estate. Art Gib is a freelance writer.
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