Guide to Regional High Schools in Bergen County, NJ

November 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Due to many small towns in Bergen County, New Jersey, many towns do not have enough children to have their own high school. Therefore, many high schools are regional, and draw their students from several different towns. Here is a guide to all the regional high schools and what towns send their students to. This is especially useful for people looking to buy a home in Bergen County and are looking for quality schools.

Westwood Regional High School-Washington Township & Westwood
Pascack Valley High School-Hillsdale & River Vale
Pascack Hills High School-Montvale & Woodcliff Lake
Northern Valley at Old Tappan High School-Harrington Park, Northvale, Norwood, Old Tappan and Rockleigh
Northern Valley at Demarest High School-Closter, Demarest, and Haworth
River Dell High School-Oradell & River Edge
Tenafly High School-Alpine & Tenafly
Northern Highlands Regional High School-Allendale, Ho-Ho-Kus, Saddle River (students have choice between Northern Highlands or Ramsey High School), & Upper Saddle River
Ramapo High School-Franklin Lakes, Oakland, & Wyckoff (students from these 3 towns can also choose to go to Indian Hills High School in the 8th grade)
Indian Hills High School-Franklin Lakes, Oakland, & Wyckoff  (students from these 3 towns can also choose to go to Indian Hills High School in the 8th grade)
Ridgefield Park High School-Little Ferry & Ridgefield Park
Henry p. Becton High School-Carlstadt & East Rutherford
Hackensack High School-Hackensack, Maywood, Rochelle Park, & South Hackensack
Wood-Ridge High School-Moonachie & Wood-Ridge

For more sources on New Jersey’s schools and rankings, please click here.

To search for homes throughout Bergen County, go here.

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Best Towns & Schools for Autism

March 13, 2011 by 1 Comment

My first born son, Kasey, has autism. He was diagnosed at the age of 2. Fortunately for us, we live in Bergen County, New Jersey, where there are many towns that offer good schools and programs for autistic children.

What schools are best is very subjective and it varies from each child’s special needs. Also, it depends on what parents are looking for. There are inclusion programs, self-contained classes in a regular school setting, and more restrictive programs such as self-contained public schools and self-contained private schools.

Some schools follow an ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) model, others have floor time (Greenspan Model).

From my wife’s professional experience (she is a licensed social worker who works in an ABA school) and also from our own personal experiences with Kasey, the Valley Pi Program in Harrington Park is really well rounded, consistent, and one of the best in the area.

There are several towns in Pascack Valley that have good reputations for their special needs students. Those towns include: Emerson, Hillsdale, Montvale, and Washington Townhip. Other towns in Bergen County with good services include: Alpine, Bogota, Closter, Harrington Park, Oradell, Paramus, Ramsey, Ridgewood, Upper Saddle River, and Washington Township.

As far as private schools go, Alpine Learning Center, Reed Academy, and Institute for Educational Achievement (IEA) are all excellent. These schools often have waiting lists, your child must be accepted at an early age, and your town has to offer them as a placement.

If moving to Pascack Valley/Bergen County and you have a child with special needs, use a Realtor like myself, who can relate to your situation and has the patience and understanding to help you find a home that best suits your child’s needs.

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Needed Pronto! New Listings in the Pascack Valley-Signed the Buyers

March 7, 2011 by 1 Comment

Searching for New Listings! Where are they????

The well qualified buyers are out there, problem is, there seems to be a lack of quality homes available in the Pascack Valley and surrounding Bergen County towns in New Jersey. The bad winter we experienced in North Jersey, seems to have delayed some sellers from putting their homes on the market. I have active, motivated buyer clients looking for new inventory, but many of the homes available have been sitting on the market for one reason or another. Many current listings are overpriced, have inferior locations (main road, near railroad tracks, or next to a commercial property), or in need of some serious updating. And most buyers won’t even touch a short sale due to the months of waiting to hear back from the banks and the uncertainty of waiting around and not knowing exactly when the closing will be. They do make sense though and worth the wait if you are in love with the house and/or getting a good, under market price.

I have talked to some of the high profile listing agents in the area and they too seem to be not getting consistent, new listings so far in 2011. There appears to have been a slight uptick in activity on the New Jersey MLS, but many are homes that were previously available, expired, and are now back on the market.

The price ranges I have been working with from $400,000 to $525,000 mainly has buyers who are purchasing their first home or stepping up from owning a condo. This range definitely has a dearth of good homes and when a good one does come on the market, there are multiple offers.

The spring market seems to have started early this year for the buyers, but the sellers never received the memo. Hopefully the potential sellers are getting their homes ready to show and will have them on the market by April. So lets so sellers! LIST NOW!

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2010 Year End Bergen County, NJ Housing Stats

January 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Usually when a couple buys a home, one partner is more the emotional type, the other more analytical. This post appeals to the later. Based on statistics from the New Jersey MLS, as a whole, house prices have stablized in Bergen County.

2009 vs 2010, the average sales price of a single family home in Bergen County actually increased 1% from $552,710 to $560,199. Total single family sales were down though 2% from 4,616 in 2009 to 4,519 in 2010.

Getting more specific and looking at values in the Pascack Valley area, it was split right down the middle, with 4 towns seeing an increase in the average sales price for single family homes and 4 towns seeing a decrease. Washington Township (4%), Woodcliff Lake (6%), Westwood (8%), and Montvale (13%). On the downside, all 4 of those towns had less total sales in 2010 vs 2009.

Park Ridge (-4%), Emerson (-4%), Hillsdale (-5%), and River Vale (-6%) all saw decreases in the average sales price of single family homes from 2009 in the Pascack Valley. However they all saw increases in total sales except Park Ridge (-2%).

The first time home buyers credit, sellers reducing their list prices to more realistic market values, and record low interest rates helped drive the market in 2010.

It will be interesting to see what 2011 brings. There will be no 1st home buyer credit and mortgage interest rates have ticked up off their record lows. Improved employment numbers will give the housing market a boost and hopefully the housing market will continue to stabilize in 2011, with some experts predicting a turn around in 2012.

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