What Homes Cost in Jersey City
You've gotta live somewhere... right? From a Paulus Hook brownstone with stroller traffic gridlock to a Newport glass box condo with PATH hum lullaby, Jersey City has a variety of places and ways to make a home.
What Does Home Look Like in Jersey City?
Prices, house styles, and the rental fine print locals wish someone had told them sooner.
Home prices are
Brooklyn-lite expensive, still fewer organs required than Manhattan. It's getting harder and harder to keep up with pricing bloat due to runaway investors.
Homes in Jersey City are typically
narrow brownstones, quirky railroad apartments, micro yards, luxury rentals with paper-thin walls, skyline drama, all walkable to PATH. In the more industrial parts of the area, you can find single-person homes but they tend to be fixer-uppers.
The dream house would be
a brownstone with parking, roof deck, views of the Hudson sunset and a secret speakeasy basement. (Yes, some brownstones actually do overlook the river.)
The reality is that it will most likely be
one bedroom near Journal Square, amenity building, view of neighboring HVAC jungles. If you're on a budget and lucky, you might find affordable housing above a store.
I'll live anywhere except
in a newly built luxuryunit, simply because you'll pay through the nose for a shoebox with a new finish of flooring. The application process alone can be terrible and landlords tend to be very fickle here.
As long as I'm close to
a PATH stop, Riverview Park sunsets, killer coffee, and life altering Taylor ham bagels.
Stereotypical architecture is
stoop proud brownstones, converted warehouses, and mirror glass towers flexing by the Hudson.
Sought after views
Statue of Liberty photobombing One World Trade over glittery Hudson River.
HOAs around here are
amenities rich, rulesy, fond of package logs, choosy about who moves in, and mysteriously high elevator maintenance. Condo HOAs are usually the only HOAs you'll hear about here.
Ready to See If Jersey City Fits You?
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