Category: Independent Business
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Chutney Chefs deliver homemade Indian food
Chutney Chefs delivers pre-cut, pre-measured Indian food and sauces for customers to combine together and cook. Owner Akhil Shah spent numerous evenings eating bad frozen food after working late nights and decided to provide a way to offer homemade food quickly. Vegetarian and non-vegetarian entrees include roti or rice. Options include aloo gobi, which…
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What rising rates mean for millennials
Fed rate hike suggests economy is quickening; millennial buyers not so sure By Laura Depta CTW Features The millennial generation — those born from the 1980s to 2000s — are, generally speaking, already slower to buy homes than their parents were. Now that the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the first time in…
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Young buyers shape home trends
By Marilyn Kennedy Melia Young, first-time homebuyers may account for the lowest share of home sales in almost three decades, but their tastes and preferences are top of mind with those who build homes. The America Institute of Architects compiled a list of “10 Major Residential Design Trends for the Next 10 Years.” And, Pardee…
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Monmouth County Association of Realtors installs new officers and directors
The Monmouth County Association of Realtors (MCAR) held its 2016 Installation of Officers and Directors recently at Buona Sera Palazzo in Ocean. The members welcomed President Gloria V. Siciliano and the new MCAR leadership as well as recognized 2014 and 2015 President Robert White and the outgoing directors for their work and dedication to the…
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Home sales going, happily, to the dogs
Nearby dog parks a drawing card when it comes time to sell What might cause one home, nearly identical in style and condition to another just a couple miles away, to sell faster and for more than its twin? Anyone with a modicum of real estate knowledge can rattle off likely reasons. The quick seller…
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The Dasaro Law Firm Announces Expansion
Julia S. Dasaro-Drescher, Esq., of The Dasaro Law Firm, P.C., has announced the opening of her new offices located at 9 Leonardville Road at the corner of Church Street, in the New Monmouth section of Middletown. Areas of practice include Family and Matrimonial Law, Collaborative Law, Personal Injury, Workers’ Compensation, Real Estate Transactions, Civil Litigation,…
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Heritage House Sotheby’s International Realty steps into the future
There was no time-traveling DeLorean waiting to whisk Mary Burke to the future when she first opened Heritage House Realtors in 1990 with one office and 15 sales associates. But had there been a DeLorean, she may have been surprised to see just how successful she’d be 26 years later. Today, Heritage House Sotheby’s International…
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Going forward on reverse mortgages
By Marilyn Kennedy Melia CTW Features Thanks to the TV commercials touting its virtues, the reverse mortgage is a familiar term but it’s hardly a well-understood product. Just as the foreclosure crisis prompted changes in other mortgages, the federal government, which insures nearly all reverse mortgages through its Home Equity Conversion Mortgages or “HECM” program, has…
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Two months rent-free promotion triggers leasing frenzy at The Waverly
Limited-time incentive and release of new section of apartments drives renters February has been a whirlwind of a month at The Waverly, the new construction rental community located right off the Garden State Parkway in Monmouth County’s Neptune Township. The attractiveness of its limited-time promotion, offering up to two months of rent-free living, has converged…
