Most houses in Verona have nice-sized yards, a quarter acre or so that is just enough for a grill, a table and chairs, and a swing set for the kids. But you don’t necessarily have to look out of town to find a house with more real estate around it. The lot at 53...
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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...
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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...
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You can dally in the front porch swing on 16 Newman Avenue. You can lounge in the hammock slung between two of the big trees in the backyard. You can slowly sip a cooling drink on the back deck. But the one thing that you cannot do is delay seeing this house if you...
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UPDATE: This house has been taken off the market. Charm is an over-used word. It’s lost so much punch that there’s a temptation to surround it with quotation marks–A House With “Charm”–except that that would bring out the grammar police at the The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks (a funny read when you get...
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A few weeks back, we did a House Snooping on 142 Morningside Road, a substantially renovated house on the west side of Verona. The homeowners have chosen a new listing agent, Lori Buck, to market and sell the home and there’s been a big price adjustment: The new price is $739,900, down from $799,000....
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Most of Verona’s homes are older, built 70 or 80 years ago. Increasingly, homeowners are taking advantage of those good old bones and turning them into the frame for a thoroughly modern house. That’s the case with 142 Morningside Road. Perched atop the hill that frames the western side of Verona, the house’s main...
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In Provence, it’s not uncommon to find houses tucked into hillsides that have as much outdoor living space as indoor. Now no one would mistake Verona for the south of France–there are no olive groves and wineries here (well, commercial ones at least). But a charming house has come on the market just across...
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For $2 million or so in Manhattan, you could probably find a two-bedroom, two-bath condo about 1,600 square feet in size. It would have a doorman, a washer/dryer in a new-ish kitchen, one or two larger closets and, if you are really lucky, a view of the sky partially unobstructed by a neighboring building....
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Calling all giants: Verona may have the house for you. Verona has lots of capes and colonials, but if you’re anything over 6 feet tall, you already know that the ceilings in these houses can be a problem. The colonials built here in the 1930s by Morris Heller all feature just 7 1/2 feet...
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