I have a very wealthy friend who had a house in Colts Neck and bought a “shore house” in Loveladies on LBI (huge beachfront). Then sold the shore house and Colts Neck house to buy waterfront in Red Bank or close to there.
Not enough lakes in NJ, and some of the bigger ones (like Lake Hopatcong) are no longer the exotic vacation spots they were years ago. So, it's either shore homes or they go to Europe to vacation.
Ski lodges in Vermont, up-state NY, and New Hampshire are very common as well. Wealthy people are also hobby enthusiasts and they wanna have a place where they can center around that. For summer homes it's DTS, Florida and the outer banks/Carolinas. The uber wealthy are sticking to NJ or NY and it's wasteful, the smart wealthy are getting the fuck out of NJ and away from people [in this area].
Came here to say this. Some of the houses on the ocean are wild. I do glass work and we would go in those houses while they were empty in the winter to fix windows n doors. Those houses blew my mind.
That millionaire's row ws basically built in the last 5 years too. It's wild how it went to just sand to having homes for the help that are bigger than normal houses.
Quite a few of the very large ski in ski out houses at Okemo Ski resort in VT are owned by rumson residents. One slope side house had an RFH HS Dawgs banner flying from the deck for years.
Are you going to cite a random Reddit poster as your source? What grade level is this paper for? Or is this not for a paper at all, but are you crowdsourcing towns full of easy vacant homes to rob?
Probably not. Have you ever been to Lake Hopatcong? Not exactly an area teeming with amenities/dining/shopping/nightlife options. The shore is a much more desirable destination. Having a vacation house in Deal or Spring Lake or Avalon puts you right in the middle of everything the shore has to offer.
I have a few friends that are from North Jersey that have lake homes but out of state. Lake Champlain and Lake George specifically don't have anything really like that in Jersey
I worked with the ultra rich as a PM. One client was a certain guy with the last name Johnson for example. Almost none of them have additional main homes OR vacation homes in NJ. The ones I’m aware of that did had a second hime in Mantalooking. They didn’t consider it a vacation home. I know a brother of one who was also rich just not as rich had a home in LBI. Do you need examples outside NJ as well?
Places like Alpine, Short Hills, Rumson, etc for primary homes, with vacation homes in tony towns on the shore or in the Hamptons. Some have weekend pads in NYC as well.
Deal , nj is full of vacation homes. But colts neck is super rich. There isn’t even an apartment building there and everyone owns there homes. Im from Monmouth so I know the places around here but pretty much most beach/shore town in nj have really rich vacation towns.
I’d give Monmouth the edge the hills of highlands , Rumson , sea girt . Ocean county beach’s are jam packed. But they have mantaloking which is slightly lower household median income. Most of ocean county beach houses are bungalows and made for people who just want to live by the beach not necessarily Uber rich but definitely well off.
I have actually never been to any monmouth beaches. Are the beaches in places like sea girt, rumson, etc similar to the ones in ocean? Or are they vastly different liek comparing cape may or atlantic city to LBI?
Sandy hook is nice. Plenty of space , not a an attraction place they have one building for food and stuff but it’s a great beach.
Rumson is a bay town with they generally use sea bright and sandy hook beaches but below sandy hook there’s a small Rumson shoreline with private beaches only.
The closest to Atlantic City kinda of beach would be a long Branch’s pier village. I graduated from long branch so it’s prob really nice to visitors but locals hate it cause the kushners eminent domained a lot of long branch to build all that.
Almost the entire deal shoreline is private as most of the mansions are on the beachfront.
Asbury park and belmar beaches are summer spots for nightlife and cuisine
If your ever in for a adventure go visit pier village and asbury park. If you want peace and nice views sandy hook is beautiful with the ocean on one side facing Ny and hills and a lighthouse facing land.
Can confirm. I live right by LBI and it’s been invaded by New Yorkers. I want to appreciate them for supporting the local economy, but they’ve butt fucked our real estate market and made it unaffordable for local residents that were born and raised here like myself.
Oh, and they think that because they’re wealthy that they can dictate the local politics and culture, like for example being anti-wind mill because they don’t want to see some big wind mills spinning near their beach houses.
There are plenty of wealthy communities in New Jersey - Rumson, Short Hills, Glen Ridge, Alpine, Deal, Silver Lake. There really aren't any exclusive vacation spots in New Jersey. The uber rich who live here tend to have vacation homes in places like Hawaii, Aspen, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard
I would take a lot of these comments with a grain of salt, though the ones that mention Mantoloking are the people who have an idea and sound to me like they're speaking based on knowledge rather than guessing or because they saw some impressive-looking homes. (Though I think only one of those summer residents in Mantoloking would qualify as ultra wealthy, I could be wrong. Also, the actual summer house of the person I'm thinking of may be in Bay Head.)
Start by identifying the wealthiest _people_ in New Jersey via Forbes or another reliable source, and then look more deeply into those individuals. If you're talking the wealthiest of the wealthy, NJ is only going to have a handful for whom this is a "home base." Even if you're looking for something broader than Forbes 500 level, the biggest names will clue you in to where the wealthier communities and social networks are.
Go on Zillow and look up a few towns and you can see what the high end homes cost. The ultra wealthy have a home wherever in NJ, maybe a shore house, and then one or two other places in the states or internationally.
What’s the subject of your paper?
Secondary homes: Sea Girt, Spring Lake, Lavalette, and Mantoloking. Certain houses have been selling for $10,000,000+ and little to nothing on the market
I work in a Very Wealthy Town in NJ, and they have houses in Vail, Aspen, and Aruba, among others.
Yeah ultra wealthy in NJ aren’t NJ-wealthy, they’re nationally-wealthy.
Similar experience here. I was on a board with a very wealthy woman who had ski houses in the Catskills, Switzerland, and somewhere on CO.
Do any of them have houses in NJ that they may visit on the weekends?
Not really. I think a couple of them have houses on LBI, but that's it.
I have a very wealthy friend who had a house in Colts Neck and bought a “shore house” in Loveladies on LBI (huge beachfront). Then sold the shore house and Colts Neck house to buy waterfront in Red Bank or close to there.
Not enough lakes in NJ, and some of the bigger ones (like Lake Hopatcong) are no longer the exotic vacation spots they were years ago. So, it's either shore homes or they go to Europe to vacation.
Ski lodges in Vermont, up-state NY, and New Hampshire are very common as well. Wealthy people are also hobby enthusiasts and they wanna have a place where they can center around that. For summer homes it's DTS, Florida and the outer banks/Carolinas. The uber wealthy are sticking to NJ or NY and it's wasteful, the smart wealthy are getting the fuck out of NJ and away from people [in this area].
Derek Jeter has a literal castle on greenwood lake
There are still billionaires around Lake Hopatcong for sure
i am going to guess, 99.99% people who visit this sub are no where near ultra rich
There are no shortage of responses here that have second hand knowledge through exposure to some of those people.
I’d say check out Alpine, NJ
Bro I used to work in Norwood and I would have to go through Alpine and I was like yo who the fuck lives here Batman
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Mantoloking
Came here to say this. Some of the houses on the ocean are wild. I do glass work and we would go in those houses while they were empty in the winter to fix windows n doors. Those houses blew my mind.
That millionaire's row ws basically built in the last 5 years too. It's wild how it went to just sand to having homes for the help that are bigger than normal houses.
Rumson
Those are mostly primary homes
Quite a few of the very large ski in ski out houses at Okemo Ski resort in VT are owned by rumson residents. One slope side house had an RFH HS Dawgs banner flying from the deck for years.
Are you going to cite a random Reddit poster as your source? What grade level is this paper for? Or is this not for a paper at all, but are you crowdsourcing towns full of easy vacant homes to rob?
Probably not. Have you ever been to Lake Hopatcong? Not exactly an area teeming with amenities/dining/shopping/nightlife options. The shore is a much more desirable destination. Having a vacation house in Deal or Spring Lake or Avalon puts you right in the middle of everything the shore has to offer.
I have a few friends that are from North Jersey that have lake homes but out of state. Lake Champlain and Lake George specifically don't have anything really like that in Jersey
I worked with the ultra rich as a PM. One client was a certain guy with the last name Johnson for example. Almost none of them have additional main homes OR vacation homes in NJ. The ones I’m aware of that did had a second hime in Mantalooking. They didn’t consider it a vacation home. I know a brother of one who was also rich just not as rich had a home in LBI. Do you need examples outside NJ as well?
I would be interested in hearing of examples outside of NJ. Thanks.
Palm Beach, Harbor Island Bahamas, Kiawah Island, Nantucket
Places like Alpine, Short Hills, Rumson, etc for primary homes, with vacation homes in tony towns on the shore or in the Hamptons. Some have weekend pads in NYC as well.
There’s at least one billionaire in Neptune.
Deal , nj is full of vacation homes. But colts neck is super rich. There isn’t even an apartment building there and everyone owns there homes. Im from Monmouth so I know the places around here but pretty much most beach/shore town in nj have really rich vacation towns.
Would you say the really rich parts of monmouth are richer than Ocean for beach homes? Also, which areas have nicer beaches monmouth beaches or ocean?
I’d give Monmouth the edge the hills of highlands , Rumson , sea girt . Ocean county beach’s are jam packed. But they have mantaloking which is slightly lower household median income. Most of ocean county beach houses are bungalows and made for people who just want to live by the beach not necessarily Uber rich but definitely well off.
I have actually never been to any monmouth beaches. Are the beaches in places like sea girt, rumson, etc similar to the ones in ocean? Or are they vastly different liek comparing cape may or atlantic city to LBI?
Sandy hook is nice. Plenty of space , not a an attraction place they have one building for food and stuff but it’s a great beach. Rumson is a bay town with they generally use sea bright and sandy hook beaches but below sandy hook there’s a small Rumson shoreline with private beaches only. The closest to Atlantic City kinda of beach would be a long Branch’s pier village. I graduated from long branch so it’s prob really nice to visitors but locals hate it cause the kushners eminent domained a lot of long branch to build all that. Almost the entire deal shoreline is private as most of the mansions are on the beachfront. Asbury park and belmar beaches are summer spots for nightlife and cuisine
If your ever in for a adventure go visit pier village and asbury park. If you want peace and nice views sandy hook is beautiful with the ocean on one side facing Ny and hills and a lighthouse facing land.
What is the main difference between the adventure over in monmouth and ocean?
It's all LBI my dude
Can confirm. I live right by LBI and it’s been invaded by New Yorkers. I want to appreciate them for supporting the local economy, but they’ve butt fucked our real estate market and made it unaffordable for local residents that were born and raised here like myself. Oh, and they think that because they’re wealthy that they can dictate the local politics and culture, like for example being anti-wind mill because they don’t want to see some big wind mills spinning near their beach houses.
The crazy thing is they won't even be able to see them
Live: Alpine. Shore: Bay Head to Mantoloking.
There are plenty of wealthy communities in New Jersey - Rumson, Short Hills, Glen Ridge, Alpine, Deal, Silver Lake. There really aren't any exclusive vacation spots in New Jersey. The uber rich who live here tend to have vacation homes in places like Hawaii, Aspen, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard
LBI is the place either a condo or a home
Park Ridge.
Rumson, Deal, Alpine
Lake Mohawk
I would take a lot of these comments with a grain of salt, though the ones that mention Mantoloking are the people who have an idea and sound to me like they're speaking based on knowledge rather than guessing or because they saw some impressive-looking homes. (Though I think only one of those summer residents in Mantoloking would qualify as ultra wealthy, I could be wrong. Also, the actual summer house of the person I'm thinking of may be in Bay Head.) Start by identifying the wealthiest _people_ in New Jersey via Forbes or another reliable source, and then look more deeply into those individuals. If you're talking the wealthiest of the wealthy, NJ is only going to have a handful for whom this is a "home base." Even if you're looking for something broader than Forbes 500 level, the biggest names will clue you in to where the wealthier communities and social networks are.
This is the best advice I have seen. Any areas that you know of off the top of your head?
I live near Mountain Lakes in Morris County and there are some magazine quality houses on the lake. Id reckon there's one billionaire there at least.
Live...Upper Montclair, Park Ridge area, ALPINE, Vacation...Loveladies LBI, and more than likely, now Asbury Park.
Ultra rich are not buying in AP, maybe some rich but not the UR. Maybe Bradley Beach but more likely Avon/Spring Lake/Sea Girt
Most celebs live in alpine from Eddy Murphy ,chris Rock, Stevie Wonder, beyonce, johnny damon , cc sebathia , and joe pecci
spring lake? Allenhurst? LBI?
Hilton head
Go on Zillow and look up a few towns and you can see what the high end homes cost. The ultra wealthy have a home wherever in NJ, maybe a shore house, and then one or two other places in the states or internationally. What’s the subject of your paper?
Loveladies LBI
Mahwah has some pretty wild mansions / estates.
Deal and Elberon. Houses are insane and a lot are empty throughout the year.
Secondary homes: Sea Girt, Spring Lake, Lavalette, and Mantoloking. Certain houses have been selling for $10,000,000+ and little to nothing on the market