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Selling homes in Millburn & Short H (28 years experience)
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- Highly likely to recommend

Sold a home in 2010.

Summary:

Karen Bigos and Daniel Cannizzo helped us purchase our new home this past year -- we could not have won the bidding war without them! They have been our real estate agents since 2004. During that time, they have helped us purchase two Short Hills homes and sell one. So, we can honestly say that we have known and worked together for many years.

We are very impressed with their broad real estate network. It is solely due to their broad network that gave us competitive advantages in purchasing our two Short Hills homes – One home was a multiple bid situation and the other was an exclusive private sale. Further, it is because of their deep local market knowledge and extensive marketing effort that the house we sold went under contract in about week. Their pricing advice really paid off, as we ended up receiving multiple bids.

In each transaction, we appreciated their responsiveness. They were always accessible. Given my husband’s late work hours, we were grateful that they scheduled their time around his schedule. Even on the weekend and during the holidays, they were always available and reachable.

For us, they were not only hardworking and tenacious, but also creative and flexible. We will not forget their “roll the sleeves up” approach as evidenced by Karen removing spider webs on our front, outside bushes when she was preparing our house for listing. Further, since we were dealing with strong personalities, we appreciated their creative solutions making us feel good about completing our transaction. Since real estate is a highly people-intensive field, we were very impressed with their flexibility in masterfully handling all the different parties (e.g., buyers, sellers, agents, lawyers and inspectors) to get the transactions completed.

Most importantly, they have proven to us that they are one of the smartest and most experienced teams in real estate locally. They guided us through the complexities of each transaction while looking out for our interest. Indeed, we relied upon their expertise on several important matters and we were consistently happy with their advice and the outcome. We definitely felt confident that we had one of the smartest and most capable teams on our side.

Their are superstars in real estate! We would recommend them to anyone searching for a home in our local Short Hills/Millburn market.

The Ah Now Family in Short Hills, NJ
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- Highly likely to recommend

Sold a Single Family home in 2010 for approximately $675k in Millburn, NJ.

Summary:

I'm thrilled and honored to recommend Karen Bigos and her team at Towne Realty Group. We contacted Karen + Dan, after an undesirable experience in attempting to sell our mother's home in Millburn with a well-known realtor from another well-known company. I watched Towne sell home after home in our neighborhood and wished we had listed with them. Even with the stigma of the home sitting unsold for 6 months prior, Karen took the challenge of selling our home. She took an aggressive approach, used her knowledge in staging skills and expertly marketed our home way beyond our expectations. Her caring and compassioin towards our family during that emotional time will never be forgotten. Her entire staff is professional and there was never a time we felt like "just another client". Needless to say, our home was SOLD, and in the process, we've made a life long friend. I'll recommend Karen, Dan, and Towne Realty Group, over and over again. They're absolutely incredible!More Less
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About Karen Eastman Bigos, e-PRO

Add personality to your profile! Tell the community about yourself, your home, and your profession.

FEW REALTORS know Millburn/Short Hills, like Karen. As and a graduate of the top-rated Millburn School system and lifelong resident with 26 years of experience, I know this area with my eyes closed. I graduated from the University of Florida, and came right back home to selling Real Estate. My mother was a Real Estate agent since the 1960's and my father Martin Eastman, owned a men's clothing store in Downtown Millburn, so my family is steeped in the history of the community.

In 2010 my company, Towne Realty Group, was awared the Who's Who in Luxury Real Estate Award for Outstanding Social Media Savvy! With all 25 of our agents and staff on facebook, LinkedIn and/or twitter, we have thousands of friends, fans, followers and connections. Our on line marketing ROCKS with superior inbound links to our newly renovated website and SEO that continues to build.


I worked at two large real estate corporations for over 10 years each and then decided to open my own real estate boutique with my partner Daniel Cannizzo, a lifelong resident of the community and another Millburn High graduate. Together with my husband, Broker and attorney Mark Bigos, we started Towne Realty Group in 2006. Our roots to Millburn and Short Hills are deep with participation on the Board of Directors in the Millburn-Short Hills Chamber of Commerce in the 1980's, Millburn/Short Hills Historical Society, Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn High Alumni Association and too many others to mention. WE KNOW THIS AREA BETTER THAN ANY OTHER TEAM!



Our company name is actually borrowed from a family business that Daniel's uncle owned and operated in Millburn for 40 years, called Towne Pharmacy. Our families have owned businesses in the Downtown for over 100 years and we are truly dedicated to the community. Our team of 19 full-time agents are all expericenced and do more than twice as many agents that might work part-time in a larger company. We are dedicated to total transaction service and we will take good care of you if you want to look for a home with an easy commute to Manhattan.
Specialties & Service Areas

Specialties:

Buyer's Agent, Listing Agent, Relocation, Staging

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