Kerry Ascione of EXIT Realty East Coast

06/19/2026

What does the Monmouth County housing market actually look like, town by town?

At Shore Insight Group, we've built a proprietary market intelligence system called SIGMIS Market IQ.

It produces detailed market reports for all of Monmouth and Ocean County, including town-level market intelligence you won't find anywhere else.

The image below is page 1 of our Monmouth County Price Perspective. It summarizes sold data for every single-family property that sold across the county over the last four months (February through May 2026), then produces the lowest, average, median, and highest sale in each town.

Depending on the town, the typical home runs from the high $300s up to several million, and within a single town the spread can be huge.

For instance, in Wall Township: a home sold for as little as $450,000 and another for $4.9 million in the very same window.

Page 1, what you see here, shows the more attainably priced towns. The full report ranks every town in Monmouth County the same way.

Want the full 3-page report? Comment "MONMOUTH" below or send me a message and I'll send it right over. No cost, no pressure.

And if you are seriously thinking about buying or selling, ask me for the SIGMIS report on your specific town. That report is priceless for anyone looking to buy or sell. It's the kind of street-level market intelligence you really should not make a move without.

Kerry Ascione, REALTOR®
Shore Insight Group at EXIT Realty East Coast
www.ShoreInsightGroup.com for full contact details

06/16/2026

Want to get into Monmouth County before home values go up any further?

With the new Netflix Studios in nearby Eatontown/Oceanport, it's quite possible that relocating now is a wise decision, and we are more than ready to assist you.

We have some truly valuable services for anyone thinking of relocating to our gorgeous county. From high value hyperlocal market data at the town level to our robust 'Monmouth Life' resources on our website, to our VIP relocation services, which includes private driving tours of towns customized to your budget and lifestyle desires.

Start with our VIP Relocator Services by clicking on the link below.

Moving to Monmouth County? Explore Netflix-area towns, custom tours, VIP relocation services, and Buying tips in our expert relocation guide.

06/13/2026

"How is the Monmouth County, NJ market?" is the wrong question.

SIGMIS Market IQ ranked all 53 Monmouth County municipalities this spring by their sell-through rate: the share of single-family listings that actually closed, versus the ones that expired unsold. The spread was enormous.

At the top, Fair Haven, Manasquan, and Shrewsbury saw essentially 100% of listings sell. At the bottom, West Long Branch cleared fewer than half, and Ocean Township and Long Branch saw nearly 4 in 10 listings fail.

Same county, same four months, and the odds of a successful sale ranged from near-certain to a coin flip depending solely on the town.

This is the case against the national, state and even countywide averages.

"The market" is fiction at the county level. In Monmouth County, the market is actually 53 distinct micro-markets, and a single blended number tells a seller almost nothing about their actual position.

We measures all those unique micro-markets every month with SIGMIS (Shore Insight Group Market Intelligence System), our proprietary, patent pending platform, across every town and property type in Monmouth and Ocean County. If you want the full ranking, or better yet, the full market intelligence report for your market (town, property type (single-family, condo, adult community), reach out to me.

If you are a real estate investor/advisor/agent and want to know how you can get SIGMIS Market IQ reports for your area of Monmouth and Ocean County (elsewhere possible), in some cases at no cost, reach out for that as well.



Kerry Ascione, Market Analyst
Founder, SIGMIS Market IQ
Shore Insight Group, LLC
www.ShoreInsightGroup.com

EXIT Realty East Coast - NJ Top Realtors

06/11/2026

Here is something most Monmouth County homeowners are never privy to. Why? Most agents aren't privy to it either.

This spring (February through May) in Monmouth County, single-family homes that went under contract in their first two weeks sold for an average of 106% of their original asking price.

Homes that sat past 90 days sold for an average of 89%.

I certainly would not want to be a seller in the later cohort, would you?

Now the part most people have backwards:

The homes selling above asking were not the ones priced highest. They were the ones priced right from day one.
Correct pricing is what created competition.

Overpricing is what quietly cost sellers their time, their leverage, and their final number.

And more than 1 in 5 listings (20.7%) expired without selling at all.

I track this hyperlocal market intelligence, not just at the county level, but at the town level across Monmouth County (and Ocean County).

This is the kind of market intelligence that does not show up on Zillow and most sellers never get to see before they list.

If you are even thinking about selling in the next year, this is the market intelligence to have before you set a price, not after.

Want to see my full Monmouth County Market Report?

Or better yet, want to see your specific town's report?

Send me a message and I will send it to you or walk you through it. This is actionable market intelligence at it's finest.

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05/27/2026

Here's the thing most agents won't tell you: the value of advice is highest before you've committed to anything.

Once you've signed a buyer's agreement, started writing offers, or listed your home, the decisions that matter most have already been made.

The right town. The right timeline. The right price band. Whether to sell first or buy first. Whether to renovate before listing or sell as-is. Whether to wait six months or move now.

These are the decisions that define the outcome. And they're the ones I want to be in the room for.

If you're at "we're thinking about it but not sure yet," that's exactly when we should talk.

The conversation is free. The clarity it produces is worth real money.

Earlier than you think you should be calling? We like it early.
Call anyway. 732-216-7643.

Kerry Ascione, REALTOR®
Shore Insight Group, LLC at EXIT Realty East Coast
57 E Main Street, Holmdel, NJ 07733
732-216-7643 Cell | 732-946-2000 Office
[email protected]
www.ShoreInsightGroup.com
All EXIT Realty offices are independently owned and operated.

05/24/2026

Generic data informs. Hyperlocal data decides.

Zillow tells you a number. The county website tells you a number. The latest news article tells you a regional average. None of those are actionable information.

Generic, high-level Information is not enough to make a decision. To decide whether to sell, when to list, what offer to write, whether the home you love is actually worth what they're asking — you need data at the level the decision lives at. Town. Neighborhood. Comparable property type.

That's what SIGMIS™ Market IQ does. It produces town and neighborhood-level intelligence for every market in Monmouth and Ocean Counties — single-family, condo and townhome, adult community — refreshed monthly. The kind of data that most agent do not have time or the means to bring to the discussion.

At Shore Insight We Do. That's the whole point. We built the system to generate that for our entire service area.

Want to see what a SIGMIS Market IQ report looks like for your Monmouth or Ocean County town or neighborhood?

DM me — I'll send it to you; no commitment required.

Kerry Ascione, REALTOR®
Shore Insight Group, LLC at EXIT Realty East Coast
57 E Main Street, Holmdel, NJ 07733
732-216-7643 Cell | 732-946-2000 Office
[email protected]
www.ShoreInsightGroup.com
All EXIT Realty offices are independently owned and operated.

05/19/2026

Every real estate transaction has two interests sitting at the table.

The first is yours — getting the best outcome on your move. The second is the agent's — earning a commission, which only happens when a deal closes.

Most of the time those interests line up. But sometimes they don't. And when they don't, you want to know whose interest is steering the advice.

Every REALTOR® in New Jersey owes their client a fiduciary duty. That's the law, and that's not what sets me apart.

What sets me apart is when and how seriously that duty shows up.
From the very first conversation, not just at the contract.

Working at the advisory level often means I'm not listing your home or writing a contract right away. Sometimes the right next step is to wait. Sometimes it's to look harder at the data. Sometimes it's to walk away from a property you were ready to make an offer on.

That's not lost business — that's what being a real fiduciary looks like.

It's why I'll tell a client to wait six months if waiting is the right call. Why I'll tell someone an offer isn't worth writing, even though writing it would close the deal. Why I'll show a buyer the data on a town they love before they make an offer they'd regret.

None of those answers pay me this quarter. All of them are what a fiduciary owes.

If you want a real estate professional who works that way, reply here, DM, call/text or email. I'm here.

Kerry Ascione, REALTOR®
Shore Insight Group, LLC at EXIT Realty East Coast
57 E Main Street, Holmdel, NJ 07733
732-216-7643 Cell | 732-946-2000 Office
[email protected]
www.ShoreInsightGroup.com
All EXIT Realty offices are independently owned and operated.

05/12/2026

The headlines say the market is hot, or cooling, or shifting. Maybe true. Maybe not.

But none of those headlines know what you paid for your house, when you bought, what your equity looks like, where you'd be moving from (or to), what your timeline is, or what tradeoffs you're actually weighing.

A market is an average. Your move is a single decision. The first can be reported on. The second has to be thought through in specific detail. That's what I do.

That's why I don't lead with the market when clients first call. I lead with their numbers, their timeline, their actual constraints. The market gets a vote —just one vote.

If you've been holding back on a decision because you're trying to time the market, the better question is: is now the right time for me? That answer doesn't live in a headline. It lives in your specific situation.

Let's start with a hyperlocal read on your specific market and work from there.

DM me your town and I'll send you a current hyperlocal SIGMIS Market IQ Report.

Kerry Ascione, REALTOR®
Shore Insight Group, LLC at EXIT Realty East Coast
57 E Main Street, Holmdel, NJ 07733
732-216-7643 Cell | 732-946-2000 Office
[email protected]
www.ShoreInsightGroup.com
All EXIT Realty offices are independently owned and operated.

05/12/2026

🏠 Middletown sellers: 10% of listings didn't reach closing this period.

125 homes did sell, at a median price of $799,000. Real demand is here — but it doesn't find every listing.

DM me for a complimentary market intelligence report for your block.

Kerry Ascione, REALTOR®
Shore Insight Group, LLC at EXIT Realty East Coast
57 E Main Street, Holmdel, NJ 07733
732-216-7643 Cell | 732-946-2000 Office
[email protected]
www.ShoreInsightGroup.com

All EXIT Realty offices are independently owned and operated.

05/11/2026

Hope all the moms out there had a beautiful Mother’s Day. 💙

Whether your day was loud and busy, quiet and relaxing, or somewhere in between, I hope you felt appreciated for everything you do — often behind the scenes and without enough recognition.

Wishing you a peaceful evening and a wonderful week ahead.

– Kerry Ascione
Shore Insight Group at EXIT Realty East Coast