New Jersey Home Prices Head for 12% Drop on Bottom-Feeder Feast
New Jersey Home Prices Head for 12% Drop on Bottom-Feeder Feast
(Bloomberg) -- The housing market in New Jersey is about to get crushed.
Home sales in the state, second only to New York in coronavirus cases, may fall as much as 45% this year from 2019, while prices will drop as much as 12%, according to Jeffrey Otteau, president of Otteau Valuation, a real estate consultant in Matawan, New Jersey.
“People will be taking homes off the market and in spite of that, this will be a buyer’s market, with low inventory,” Otteau said. “It’s unusual.”
Getting a sale will require a deep discount, maybe 20% below what the seller was planning to list for, he said.
“If you don’t need to sell now, take your house off the market and re-evaluate in the fall or next spring,” he said. “If you do go to the market now, there will be a price for that. The price will be that you’ll be at the mercy of bottom-feeders.”
©2020 Bloomberg L.P.