Buying or selling in Bergen County

I'm licensed in New Jersey as well as New York, and most of my New Jersey work is in the eastern part of Bergen County: the Northern Valley towns along the Palisades and the towns around Hackensack and Teaneck. They sit within about 15 minutes of each other and of the Rockland line, so I can show a Closter colonial and a Hackensack condo on the same afternoon. I'm licensed across New Jersey, though, and if your search runs past these towns, farther up the Northern Valley, into Passaic County or down toward Fort Lee and Edgewater, I'll show it.

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The last 12 months

The 13 featured towns, by the numbers.

$760KMedian sold price, single-family

22Median days on market

56%Of homes sold over asking

1,231Single-family homes sold

Source: New Jersey MLS (NJMLS), single-family homes closed Oct 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026, by town. Medians. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Pulled Oct 7, 2026.

Town by town

Thirteen towns, one afternoon apart.

From the estates along the Palisades to the condo buildings in Hackensack, these towns cover most of the price range in the county. They're the ones with their own pages, not the limit of where I'll go: I'm licensed statewide and show homes anywhere in Bergen and the neighboring counties. Tap a town for prices, taxes, schools and the commute.

Town	Median sold	Days on market	Sold over asking	Avg. 2025 tax bill
Alpine	$4.25M	140	22%	$23,291
Tenafly	$1.71M	22	49%	$25,128
Demarest	$1.69M	25	35%	$26,112
Cresskill	$1.30M	22	43%	$20,282
Closter	$1.25M	21	43%	$19,574
Harrington Park	$999K	14	72%	$17,840
Englewood	$750K	28	48%	$14,778
Teaneck	$681K	21	61%	$14,383
Bergenfield	$675K	24	61%	$12,571
Dumont	$650K	16	70%	$13,048
Hackensack	$642K	19	71%	$10,307
Bogota	$620K	21	63%	$11,850
Ridgefield Park	$612K	30	63%	$13,167

Source: New Jersey MLS (NJMLS), single-family homes closed Oct 1, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026, by town. Medians. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Pulled Oct 7, 2026. Taxes: NJ Division of Taxation, 2025 Average Residential Statistics (average tax bill and average sale price by municipality). Actual taxes depend on the assessment and any deductions.

What's different in New Jersey

A few things that work differently than across the state line.

Attorney review. In New Jersey the contract is usually written by the agents and signed first, then each side's attorney has three business days to review and change it. Nothing is final until attorney review ends.
A written buyer agreement before we tour. Since August 2024, New Jersey requires a signed brokerage services agreement before an agent shows you property. It can be as short as a single day and a single home, and my fee is addressed in writing before we see anything.
No mortgage recording tax. New Jersey doesn't charge the mortgage recording tax (about 0.8% of the loan in Rockland and Orange) that New York buyers pay.
Transfer fees are on the seller. The realty transfer fee is paid by the seller, and since July 2025 so is the additional fee on sales over $1 million, on a sliding scale from 1% to 3.5%.
Taxes are billed quarterly, and the average bill in these towns ranges from about $10,307 to $26,112 a year.

General information, not legal or tax advice. Your attorney will walk you through the specifics of your transaction.

Buying or selling in Bergen County

The 13 featured towns, by the numbers.

Thirteen towns, one afternoon apart.

A few things that work differently than across the state line.

Hear about new homes before the open house.

New listings, before the weekend

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