Some Highlights
- While remote work peaked during the pandemic, many people still work from home today.
- If you’re one of them, it could have an unexpected benefit when you’re looking to buy a home.
- If you can work from home, you might have more choices for where to live. Connect with a real estate agent to talk about your options and what’s most important to you.
Shea Merritt is a licensed New Jersey real estate agent with eXp Realty, working with buyers and sellers across Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties. He grew up in Old Bridge. He writes here about the arithmetic behind a move: what a house would actually bring today, what the tax line does to a monthly payment, and how to compare offers on their terms rather than on the top number. If you are weighing a sale or a purchase, send him the address and he will run the numbers on it.