Monthly Archives: March 2009

Today’s Star-Ledger has a story on home sales rebounding everywhere except the Northeast:

While the West Coast is getting a sales boost from heavily discounted foreclosures — but a walloping on prices — the Northeast housing market, which has a much smaller amount of distressed sales, is withering under the national recession and job losses, Retsinas said.

Home sales in seven major Northeast cities recorded double-digit declines in February, while median prices continue to fall across the region, according to The Associated Press-Re/Max Monthly Housing Report, also released Monday.

The report analyzed sales transactions in nine Northeast metropolitan statistical areas filed by all real estate agents, regardless of company affiliation.

Want to upgrade you home? Don’t sell — renovate.

Love the outdoors. One of the best things I did this winter was escape to the Catskills on a weekday. We visited Hunter and Plattekill a couple of weeks later.