From waterfront mansions on the Navesink to celebrity-pedigreed homes in Englewood to a 30,000-square-foot stone mansion in Alpine, here are the more expensive listings in New Jersey this year
Take a peek inside the lives of the 1 percent (and check out their tax bills, too) with our annual look at the most expensive homes on open market in New Jersey.
The top 10 list is culled from Trulia and is heavily represented by just three towns: Alpine and Englewood in Bergen County, and Rumson in Monmouth County. It does not include the pricey homes that are being shopped privately. (One possible example: The Alpine estate owned by carpet magnate Steven Stark that briefly surfaced online earlier this month with an asking price of close to $20 million and just as quickly disappeared.)
The list is topped once again by the Stone Mansion, the 30,000-square-foot home on the old Frick estate that remains, even at its reduced $48.88 million price, the most expensive home ever listed in New Jersey. (It went on the market in 2010 for $68 million.)
But the newcomers include two neighbors of the Stone Mansion -- another mansion right across the street built in the 1930s for Henry Clay Frick II, the grandson of the famed industrialist and philanthropist (it came on the market in December for $27.8 million) and another mansion of more recent vintage less than a mile down the road, yours for only $15.1 million. The third newbie is the most recent addition: a $12 million mansion overlooking the Navesink in Alpine that entered the market earlier this month.
None of the properties that dropped off the list appear to have sold, notably a waterfront estate in Long Branch that was listed last year for $40 million, making it the most expensive listing on the Jersey Shore. That was taken off the market, along with a West River Road estate that had been priced at $16.5 million. (One of its neighbors is still on the list, asking $14.9 million.) A lakefront home on 22 acres in Kinnelon has dropped in price from $15 million to $9.9 million, falling from the stratosphere to the mere troposphere.
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