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Nutley, by the numbers.

Home base. I’ve priced this township block by block for eight years — and I live here.

Essex County~9 mi to Manhattan Median ~$686KWalkable Franklin Ave
The Nutley Tape 3:35 Nutley — July
19 of 23 under $800K sold over ask
The Nutley Tape · July MMXXVI
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This month in Nutley

July 2026 · updated monthly
Under $800K
19/23
Over ask
Entry and first-move-up Nutley is still a fight — most homes closed above list.
Over $800K
1/5
Over ask
Cross $800K and the frenzy evaporates. The ceiling is real.
31 Hay Ave · July
+$60K
12.6% over · 13 days
Listed $475K, sold $535K. Priced to invite the fight, not end it. See the case study →
Nº 2

What I’m watching

Nutley has a line at eight hundred thousand. Which side you land on is the whole game.

Below $800K, the buyer pool is deep and hungry — 19 of 23 homes sold over ask in July. Price it right and you start a competition. Above $800K, the same market goes quiet: just 1 of 5 cleared list.

The public record tells the same story. 18 Irving Place listed at $899,000 and closed at $802,000 after twenty-two days — not my listing, and I don’t know that seller’s story. But across the band, that’s the July pattern: above $800K, ambitious list prices haven’t been turning into sale-price premiums.

Above the line, the market’s answer to an ambitious list price has been extra weeks — not extra dollars.

If you’re selling a Nutley home anywhere near that line, the number you pick decides whether you run a frenzy or chase the market down. That’s the conversation I want to have before you list.

Nº 3

On tape & in the lab

All Nutley pieces →
Nº 4

Living in Nutley

Commute

Bus-first to Midtown

NJ Transit buses run the Franklin Avenue corridor to the Port Authority; the Montclair-Boonton rail line sits a short drive away in the adjoining towns. Roughly nine miles from Manhattan.

Housing stock

Colonials, capes & two-families

Early-twentieth-century colonials and capes on tree-lined blocks, plus a deep two-family market that draws both owner-occupants and investors.

Downtown

Walkable Franklin Avenue

The everyday errands — coffee, dinner, the pharmacy — sit along one walkable commercial spine rather than a highway strip.

Taxes & assessment

Know where you sit

Essex County. I’ll show you where your assessment lands against real Nutley sales — and whether a Chapter 123 appeal is worth filing.

Childcare

Worth checking before you commit

Redfin started showing daycare and preschool options on every listing in August 2026 (via a new partnership with Winnie) — recognition that housing and childcare together can eat over half a family’s income in expensive markets nationally. I don’t have a verified Nutley childcare directory built yet, so the honest move is the same one I’d take with pricing: check real, current options at Winnie or NJ’s state-licensed provider search before you commit to a block.

The numbers call · Fifteen minutes

Selling in Nutley? Let’s find your line.

I’ll pull your block’s real closed sales and show you exactly where your home sits against that $800K math — before you ever set a price.

Or just text it: 973-542-9302 · No pressure. Just a clear answer.