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Van Leer

Data-driven profile of Van Leer, Jersey City. 296 properties, median sale $1.1M. Updated 2026.

296Properties
$1.1MMedian Sale (2023-26)
$4.4MAvg Assessment
1980Avg Year Built
$522Price/SqFt (2025)
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$1.1M
Median Sale Price
+-23%
Price/SqFt since 2016
$676 → $522
67
Sales since 2020
78.0%
Assessment-to-Sale Ratio
Sell 22% above assessed
$128,807
Avg Annual Tax
2.94%
Effective Tax Rate
Price per Square Foot Trend

Price / SqFt by Year

+-23% over 8 years

Price per sqft normalizes for building size and filters out portfolio-sale outliers.

N/A
2015
$676
2016
N/A
2017
$666
2018
N/A
2019
$649
2020
$646
2021
$685
2022
$1383
2023
$724
2024
$522
2025
Height = price per sqft (max = $1383 in 2023)

Price/SqFt vs General Inflation

+-57% real gain

Both indexed to 100 in 2016. Property prices grew -0.7× faster than CPI.

100 150 200 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 77 134
Price/sqft (+-23%) US CPI inflation (+34%)
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YearSalesAvg PricePrice/SqFt
20152$800,000$591
20166$613,333$676
20172$675,000$726
20186$875,333$666
20192$635,000$697
202010$739,800$649
20218$643,750$646
20227$647,714$685
202312$1.2M$1383
20245$875,000$724
20256$507,144$522
Property Composition

Property Class Mix

Vacant Land
183 (61.8%)
Commercial
56 (18.9%)
Residential
34 (11.5%)
Industrial
11 (3.7%)
Apartment
10 (3.4%)
Railroad
2 (0.7%)

Condo vs Non-Condo

130 condos (44%)
166 non-condo (56%)
Building Stock

Building Age Distribution

1900-19
24 (8%)
1920-39
2 (1%)
1960-79
3 (1%)
2000-19
132 (45%)
2020+
3 (1%)
Pre-1900
20 (7%)
Unknown
112 (38%)

Size Distribution

<1,000 sqft
87 (29%)
1-2K sqft
65 (22%)
2-3K sqft
2 (1%)
3-5K sqft
3 (1%)
5K+ sqft
1 (0%)
Top Streets

Top Streets by Property Count

StreetPropertiesAvg AssessmentAvg SaleSales (2020+)
Tenth St 130 $2.2M $1.7M 40
Fifteenth St 30 $622,140 $3.0M 9
Grove St 22 $5.7M $3.9M 5
Jersey Ave 14 $9.5M $3.5M 0
Monmouth St 13 $8.6M $3.3M 0
Sixteenth St 13 $16.0M $43.4M 5
Fourteenth St 11 $2.8M $2.7M 1
Hoboken Ave 11 $262,272 $5.7M 0

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