Section: Real Estate
Buying A House? Watch The Tax Rate
At the bottom of every house file on the New Jersey Multiple Listing Service there is a section for financial information on the property. It contains data on the property’s land assessment and building assessment, its taxes and its tax rate. Since Verona has completed its property tax revaluation, that rate ought to show up [...]
Open Houses, Price Changes
Two open houses and two price changes to report this weekend. The first open house is on Sunday, August 22, from 1 to 4 p.m. at 235 Fairview Avenue, steps away from Verona Pool in the F.N. Brown Elementary School district. The cape-style house is priced at $359,000, and it looks from the photos as [...]
Remodeling–Without The Headaches
When a raccoon falls through the ceiling inside your house, you have to make some changes. Making the outside of the house less raccoon accessible was step one. Step two was to fix the damage done inside. Martin Ziolkowski, a Verona-based contractor who did a stunning job modernizing his own house on Cumberland Avenue, took [...]
Oil Tank Cleanup On Derwent
There’s going to be a lot of big construction equipment on Derwent Avenue for the next few weeks. An underground oil tank mid-block has been leaking and the site has to be cleared of the tank and oil contamination. According to Nate Thompson, one of the owners of Environmental Management Associates Inc., the company handling [...]
Preparing For Next Year’s Green Lawn
After the dry summer we’ve had, it feels as if most of Verona will need to attend this class at the Essex County Environmental Center in Roseland. “Preparing for Next Year’s Green Lawn” will be held on Monday, August 23 at 7 p.m. and led by the Rutgers Master Gardeners. Participants will receive the latest [...]
Prices Dropped On 6 Listings
There are 46 apartments and houses up for sale in the Verona real estate market now, and six of them have had price changes in the last 15 days, including one that you’ve already seen on MyVeronaNJ.com. Here’s what’s up, or should we say, down. The one-bedroom condo at 300 Bloomfield Avenue has been lowered [...]
House Snooping: 14 Manor Road
If your idea of an old house is anything built before 1980, the house at 14 Manor Road is not for you. It was built in 1880, maybe earlier. If you can’t identify every tool in a Sears Craftsman set, the house at 14 Manor Road is not for you. It will need all of [...]
Essex County Put On Drought Watch
You’ll need to think twice about watering your lawn now. New Jersey is asking people in Essex, Bergen, Hudson, Morris and Passaic counties to cut back on their water use as our dry summer drags on. The state Department of Environmental Protection has issued a drought watch for our county and the others, which relies [...]
Revaluation In The Star Ledger
Verona’s property revaluation made the front page of The Star Ledger’s Essex section today. You can read the story here.
Verona’s Vacancies
The storefront at 144 Bloomfield Avenue is up for rent, so is the space that was occupied for decades by the Salon LuJon at 528 Bloomfield. There’s a vacancy at 630 Bloomfield next to Verona Camera and Nature’s Corner, the florist that has long occupied a sliver of real estate where Pine Street converges on [...]