Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties

CEO/Broker of Shore Prime Properties ~ Helping you move since 2002 🌊

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

A two-bedroom condo. 13 showings. 5 offers. One weekend. The difference wasn't luck. It was pricing with a plan, presenting with care and communicating clearly.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

Sell your condo first or buy the house first? It depends on three things: how comfortable you are owning two homes for a short time, how fast your market is moving, and how flexible your lender and buyer can be. Neither is wrong. Only one is right for you.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

Highlands and Atlantic Highlands are basically neighbors. Yet I'd never tell a buyer they're interchangeable. Drive 10 minutes in Monmouth County and the lifestyle can completely change.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

Atlantic Highlands is one of those places that reminds me why choosing a town from Zillow is almost impossible. A map can't
show you how a place feels. Go spend an ordinary afternoon there.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

Highlands is one of those Jersey shore towns that makes a lot more sense once you actually spend time there. Water. Restaurants. Trails. Ferry. Personality. It isn’t trying to be every other shore town. That’s part of the appeal.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

If you're thinking about moving to the Jersey Shore, don't only visit in July.
Come on a gray Saturday.
Come in January.
Come when the wind is howling and nothing is happening.
You're not choosing a vacation destination.
You're choosing home.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

Maybe your next move isn't about getting a bigger house.
Maybe it's more mornings outside.
More dinners near the water.
More walking.
More community.
More reasons to stay home for the weekend.
Sometimes you're not house hunting. You're life hunting.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

Before you tell me how many bedrooms you want, tell me how you spend a Saturday.
Walk to dinner or backyard privacy?
Beach nearby or downtown outside your door?
Commute often or rarely?
Those answers tell me more about where you should live than "4 bedrooms, 2 baths" ever will.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

You know you've really moved to the Jersey Shore when the beach stops being somewhere you "go."
It's the walk before work. The drive after a long day. The place you end up on an ordinary Monday.
Eventually it stops feeling like vacation. It just feels like home.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

🎃 5 Jersey Shore pumpkin patches worth the drive this fall:
A. Casola Farms (Holmdel), Maple Leaf Farms (Manalapan), Happy Day Farm (Manalapan), Von Thun’s (Monmouth Junction), Bullock Farms (Cream Ridge)

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

If I had to send someone to one part of Red Bank first, it’s the blocks around Broad St. and River Rd. Under 10 min from the train. Victorians and colonials on tree lined lots. Walk to dinner, stay parked in your own driveway.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

This is what the long way home looks like on the Jersey Shore: a farm stand you never leave empty handed, coastal roads that go quiet at sunset, porch lights coming on up and down the block. A colonial two towns from the water, still in Monmouth County. This is life here.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

The backyard is the part of our house we actually use. The finished basement gets used twice a year. None of that’s on a listing sheet, but it’s most of what the decision comes down to.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

27 years ago we almost moved to Leonardo, NJ. We chose Long Branch instead, it had just opened a full-time preschool, our daughter was 3, and we wanted a beach town. I’d make the same call today.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

Jersey Shore fall bucket list, short version: pumpkins & hayrides at Battleview Orchards (Sept 19, apples are out this year), Fall Harvest Festival at Allaire (Sept 19-20), Highlands Oktoberfest (Oct 3), West End Farmers’ Market, Thursdays thru Oct 15.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

Under 10 min to Red Bank. Under 10 min to Riverside Gardens. Manhattan’s still under 90 min away by train. Comment or DM FAIR HAVEN for what’s active there now.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

5PM in Manhattan. Home in Fair Haven, NJ before 7. Dinner on the patio at Nauvoo Grill, a walk to the dock on the Navesink. That’s a Tuesday, not a getaway.

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

The news covers one side of the Jersey Shore. Mine starts at Offshore Coffee Co., winds through the trails at Hartshorne Woods, and ends at golden hour dinner over by McLoone’s Pier House. This is the shore I sell every day. What’s your favorite shore spot?

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

Most sellers think leaving Monmouth County means giving something up. After 24 years of watching people move, I’ve learned it’s usually the opposite. What’s the real reason someone in your life left the shore?

[Michele Irizarry ~ Shore Prime Properties @ShorePrime]

Every Jersey Shore town gets lumped together. Then you drive down De Normandie Ave. in Fair Haven. 24 years of selling homes here and it’s still my favorite street. What’s yours at the shore?