Bergen County Real Estate News : April 2008 – week 2

Bergen county news with an emphasis on aspects affecting real estate, residency and community issues.

Cliffside luxury housing on sale
Bergen County Parks have ‘safe’ turf
Bergen County rent Prices
Schools budgets approved at many towns in Bergen County
Bergen County Roads to be repaved

Cliffside luxury housing on sale

New property that spells Bergen County luxury housing out loud, is now on sale in Cliffside Park. Priced at $2,498,000, this property is a four bedroom stucco house with good architecture that mixes both traditional and contemporary. Thus while the traditional side comprises of leaded glass entry doors, granite fireplace and sweeping staircases, on the modern hand, every room has been wired for sound and speakers are present in every room. The colonial structure boasts of an in ground swimming pool wide archways and a great view. The garage can fit four cars, and the house is also equipped with an eight person hot tub. The house comprises of two storeys and a four and half bath. Also present is a glass enclosed breakfast region and a central vacuum system. The property is being listed by Prominent Properties Sothbey’s International Realty, a well known real estate organization from Alpine.

Bergen County Parks have ‘safe’ turf

The various Bergen County towns turned back good result when the turf was tested for pollution from lead. Authorities like the New Jersey department of health and senior service expressed concern when high levels of lead were found on sites at Hoboken and Ewing. These artificial turf fields reportedly had eight times higher levels of lead than the standard for residential soil. Four locations in Bergen County were also tested, but were reported to be safe, without having any unhealthy level of lead. These included Van Fleet Park inFort Lee and Memorial Park in Park Ridge. Additional tests are now being done in order to ensure the safety of users.

Bergen County rent Prices

Not only Bergen County, but the entire state of New Jersey is expensive for renters. As per statistics, New Jersey is the fifth most expensive state where rents are concerned. This makes it difficult to get a decent accommodation for many with commonplace jobs. Recent reports from the National Low Income housing coalition, an affordable housing advocacy group also revealed that approximately 50% of renters in America cannot afford the rents of the average apartment that suits their family size. With even modest sized homes becoming increasingly expensive to rent, figures revealed that the national average has now reached $900, and a person to be able to afford this, must earn $ 36,000 per year. Thus usually people belonging to occupations such as preschool teaching, child care, security guards, school bus drivers and social workers, were noted to have difficulty in affording the rents of a decent home. With New Jersey home owners paying the highest property taxes in US at $6800, it is only obvious that these taxes are getting translated as rent payments to tenants.

Schools budgets approved at many towns in Bergen County

Residents of Bergen County whose children go to the Bergen County schools approved most of the school budgets this year. Most of the 74 spending plans were approved and only 16 were rejected by the residents. However, out of the twelve secondary spending questions, only one was approved. These second ballot questions give districts the scope to ask for more funds. In the township of Cresskill, residents rejected the budget worth $25.2 million. Also another budget worth $160,000 for remedial reading and gifted students was rejected by the residents. The accepted plans include the one in Englewood Cliffs, regarding a $9 million tax levy that passed by one vote.

Bergen County Roads to be repaved

Few major roads in Bergen County and the neighborhood will now be shut down for a few months as repaving work is about to begin. The entire project worth $5.9 million will comprise of repaving those roads with heavy traffic. These include multiple lanes of Routes 1 and 9, Routes 9W in the region of Alpine and Route 7. This work would take approximately seven months for completion and as per experts, the roads will be ready for use by September. Due to heavy traffic, most parts of these routes are badly damaged with potholes and are in need of repair. Work would be undertaken through night and day, to ensure that smoother roads are offered to the public with minimal inconvenience at the earliest.

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