Dennis Mark’s Neighborhood Finder

Your price range and your commute are must-haves, and so is a 55+ community when that’s the home you pick. A town whose median sale price runs more than 20% over your top number drops out. A town with no MLS price to check against your range is never counted as a fit on price: it shows after the matches, marked that way.

For the commute, you choose how you get there:

• By car: the drive has to fit your time limit. Drive times are estimates without traffic.
• By train, bus or ferry: a station, bus stop, park-and-ride or ferry terminal has to be within the distance you’ll go to get on, measured from the center of town, with service that reaches the place you picked. Closer boarding, fewer changes and shorter scheduled rides rank higher. Ride times come from each operator’s own published weekday timetable and start when you board.
• Either: whichever of the two fits better.

Unless you change them on your results, the drive limit is one hour, the train, bus or ferry has to board within about 5 miles of the center of town, and the water has to be within about 5 miles.

Towns that miss by a little show up as “close, but a stretch.” Everything else adds points: the water, a downtown you can walk, a train, the age of the homes, the size of the yard.

Matches are based on homes and places only. Prices, home types, distances and what’s nearby. We never ask who’s moving, and we don’t rate schools, neighborhoods or the people who live there. Every buyer, every home: Equal Housing Opportunity.

This is a starting point, in Dennis Mark’s opinion, built from public data and the MOMLS figures for September 2026. Prices change every month, drive times are estimates without traffic, ride times are scheduled times that change with each new timetable, and straight-line miles are as the crow flies. Visit, try the commute at rush hour, check the operator’s current schedule, and verify anything that matters to you.

Sources: MOMLS (Monmouth Ocean MLS) market summary, September 2026; U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 and TIGER boundaries; NJ Office of GIS parcel data (MOD-IV); map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); drive times by OSRM; train, bus and ferry timetables published by NJ TRANSIT, Academy, Seastreak, NY Waterway and SEPTA, ride times from the weekday timetables in effect Wednesday, November 18, 2026. Notable Neighborhood prices come from the source named on each neighborhood’s page. Data built 2026-10-11.