2011 Feb 23rd

The Weekly Wednesday Wrap Up – Hoboken Condo Sales & Activity for the Week of February 23rd

Categories: Hoboken Condos

Hoboken Condos Sales & Activity – Week of February 23rd, 2011

A Pet Peeve – Poorly-Done Property Flyers

I get tons of email every day from other agents announcing new listings, price reductions and broker open houses.  Just now, I received one with a typo in the subject line, sentences without capitalized first words, the wrong spacing between works and punctuation, a center-justified layout with an ‘orphan’ at the bottom and a less-than-stellar selection of photos.   The seller of that condo should be very upset with the (lack of) professionalism and attention to detail.  No matter how new the agent or how inexpensive the property, 3rd-graders learn that you need to capitalize the first word of a sentence.  These errors are inexcusable.  Yet you would be amazed how many such flyers I see that are equally bad.

Another Pet Peeve – Agents who Attend Broker Open Houses Just for the Food

I wonder if the agents who create the crummy flyers are the same ones who manage to arrive first to every broker open house, especially when sushi is served.  They show up early, fill up their plates and don’t even pretend to be interested in the property.  I wonder if there is a correlation here.  Could it be that the agents who produce inferior work product don’t make much money selling real estate and therefore need the free lunch to survive ???

Tax Appeals

I’m still happy to send you comps if you are appealing your own taxes. Keep in mind that the City has a 15% margin of error. If your assessment does not multiply out to at least 15% over the current market value of your property, you are not likely to be successful in an appeal.  The “upper limit” multiplier for Hoboken is .3407. To see where you are at, take your assessed value and divide by .3407. For example, if your assessed value is $175,000, the result would be $513,648. Your property value must be less than $513k to win an appeal. You can get more details on tax appeals and forms at the Hudson County Tax Board website.

Here is this week’s condo sales report:

Disclaimer: The data relating to real estate transactions on this web site comes in part from the Hudson County MLS. While some of these listings are, in fact, our listings they are not ALL our listings nor do we hold them out as such. Century 21 Listings are identified with “C21” after the address. Other listings are from the MLS and are identified with “MLS” after the address. Information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

Studio & 1 Bedroom Hoboken Condos:

12 new listing

4 Dabos

5 Sold

8 price reductions

139 Total Active 1BRs

Two Bedroom Hoboken Condos:

15 new listings

5 Dabos

4 sold

10 price reductions

191 Total Active 2BRs

Three Bedroom and Larger Hoboken Condos:

3 new listings

1 Dabo

1 sold.

no price reductions

35 Total Active 3BRs

Hoboken Condo Open Houses

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