If you are looking for realtors and real estate brokers, agents, agencies, & offices in northern New Jersey, look no further than Realtor® / real estate agent Karen DeMarco, and the real estate brokerage services furnished by broker Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Tenafly Office.

Representing sellers, home buyers, tenants & renters, and landlords in North Jersey, available real estate services include:

• Home sellers & property sales: home sales, selling a home or house, selling real estate, & selling property
• Home buyers & home purchasers: buying, buying a house, purchasing real estate, & buying property
• Home renters / landlords & property owners: apartment rentals, house rentals, condo rentals, townhome rentals, townhouse rentals, renting a home, leasing a house, rental housing, apartments for rent, and rental properties & apartment buildings
• Exclusive homes: elite, expensive luxury homes, estates, mansions, & properties

The area covered by Karen DeMarco and Coldwell Banker - Tenafly includes:

• Bergen County, NJ and the towns of Allendale, Alpine, Bergenfield, Bogota, Carlstadt, Cliffside Park, Closter, Cresskill, Demarest, Dumont, East Rutherford, Edgewater, Elmwood Park, Emerson, Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, Fair Lawn, Fairview, Fort Lee, Franklin Lakes, Garfield, Glen Rock, Hackensack, Harrington Park, Hasbrouck Heights, Haworth, Hillsdale, Ho-Ho-Kus, Leonia, Little Ferry, Lodi, Lyndhurst, Mahwah, Maywood, Midland Park, Montvale, Moonachie, New Milford, North Arlington, Northvale, Norwood, Oakland, Old Tappan, Oradell, Palisades Park, Paramus, Park Ridge, Ramsey, Ridgefield, Ridgefield Park, Ridgewood, River Edge, River Vale, Rochelle Park, Rockleigh, Rutherford, Saddle Brook, Saddle River, South Hackensack, Teaneck, Tenafly, Teterboro, Upper Saddle River, Waldwick, Wallington, Washington Township, Westwood, Woodcliff Lake, Wood-Ridge, & Wyckoff
• Hudson County, NJ and the towns of Bayonne, East Newark, Guttenberg, Harrison, Hoboken, Jersey City, Kearny, North Bergen, Secaucus, Union City, Weehawken, & West New York.

Contact Karen for more information:

• I'm looking to BUY
• I'm looking to SELL
• I'm looking to RENT
• I'm a landlord who needs to FIND TENANTS

A member of the Eastern Bergen County Board of Realtors® and the New Jersey MLS (NJMLS) Multiple Listing Service, real estate agent Karen DeMarco combines an extensive background and experience in sales and marketing, professional involvement in numerous local communities, and a rapport-building personality. Karen is past President of the Edgewater Chamber of Commerce and a past officer of the Dumont Chamber of Commerce. In addition to an impressive knowledge of local properties, she regularly interfaces with government officials and business leaders in Bergen County and Hudson County both professionally and in furtherance of community and social concerns.

Welcome to 1717 Hudson Park in Edgewater, New Jersey.

This immaculately well-kept one-bedroom unit, with huge windows and balcony, offers amazing views of New York City, the Hudson River, and the George Washington Bridge.

The largest one-bedroom floor plan in the highly desirable One Hudson Park building, it features a large gourmet kitchen with top of the line stainless appliances and granite countertop.

The master bedroom en-suite has two large closets, including one walk-in. The master bath has double sinks, a large soaking tub, and separate shower.

Both the living room and bedroom have sliding glass doors to the balcony.

The unit includes a powder room for guests, a full-size stacking washer and dryer, and beautiful hardwood floors throughout.

With a newly renovated lobby area, the building's amenities include a 24 hour doorman-concierge; a fitness room with new equipment; a private fitness room; a 50 foot indoor pool; a rooftop deck with grills and children's playground; an indoor children's playroom; and a laundry room with commercial size washer and dryer for bulk items. One parking spot is included.

Transportation to New York City is only steps away, and it's within walking distance to many of Edgewater's restaurants and shopping areas.

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For more information, please call Karen DeMarco at 201-776-6762, or email her at karen@karendemarco.com. You can also visit www.1717HudsonPark.com.

Americans living in rental housing spend almost a third of their incomes on housing. Rental affordability is steadily worsening, but the good news is that mortgages remain relatively affordable:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-13/renting-in-america-has-never-been-this-expensive

A listing of recent real estate sales in Bergen County as of the week of July 20, 2015 has been published by NorthJersey.com. Some of the transactions include:

CLIFFSIDE PARK
314 Palisade Ave. Apt B5: $249,000 (closing date: 4/30/2015)
547 Gorge Rd. Apt 4b: $300,000 (closing date: 6/15/2015)
770 Anderson Ave. Apt 10e: $305,000 (closing date: 6/23/2015)
236 Day Ave.: $350,000 (closing date: 6/18/2015)
39 Cecelia Ave.: $525,000 (closing date: 6/12/2015)
100 Winston Dr. # 11a: $545,000 (closing date: 6/25/2015)
200 Winston Dr. Apt 519: $625,000 (closing date: 6/20/2015)

CLOSTER
30 Ann Arbor Place: $555,000 (closing date: 4/24/2015)

I read an entertaining article on Bloomberg.com this week, pointing out the increasing lengths that some home buyers will go to in order to win a bidding war over that new home they want. These included undisguised flattery, personal appeal letters, YouTube videos, and baked goods - including homemade pies (that's one pie at the signing, and another at the closing).

The most surreal, though, was an offer letter written in the voice of the family dog.

I was interviewed recently by the Wall Street Journal, for an article that ran in the Saturday, April 30, 2011 edition about NYC-area real estate.

Read about Bergen County towns with a view of New York City in the Wall Street Journal.

In this video installment, Karen gives an overview of the exclusive community of Alpine, New Jersey:

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The Borough of Alpine is an affluent community in northern New Jersey, located in Bergen County just outside of New York City. Close to the George Washington Bridge, Alpine is part of the New York City metropolitan area. It is less than 9 miles and just minutes from (and an easy commute to) Manhattan. According to Forbes Magazine, Alpine, NJ ranks first, along with Greenwich, Conneticut, in "America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes" for 2009, with a median home price of $4.14 million.

For more detailed information, visit www.AlpineLuxuryProperties.com.

Contact Karen for more information:

• I'm looking to BUY
• I'm looking to SELL
• I'm looking to RENT
• I'm a landlord who needs to FIND TENANTS