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Best Places To Eat In & Around Point Pleasant Beach, NJ

There's great news in the neighborhood, especially for diner foodies. The Ocean Bay Diner is finally back on its feet after an 1989 fire destroyed the long-standing landmark eatery. With new owners, the Antonatos family, who took their own children to the OB back in its glory days, the diner is back in action and vying for top spot as one of the best places to eat in the area.

The diner, in Point Pleasant, boasts easy access to the crystal clear ocean waters and expansive sands of Point Pleasant Beach. But it's not the only eatery with prime location to the mile-long boardwalk, fun in the sun, and antique shopping delights available in these Ocean County boroughs. If you're looking for other great diner-style experiences or casual eating spots in…

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Most Expensive Homes For Sale In Mantoloking, NJ

With oceanview homes for sale that will take your breath away, it's no wonder that real estate in Mantoloking, NJ is considered one of America's "most expensive zip codes," according to Forbes. While the meaning behind its unique Native American name remains obscure, the benefits of real estate here are anything but vague.

Sparkling Atlantic vistas provide vibrant sunrises and sunsets as backdrops to these spectacular estates nestled in the dunes of the Barnegat Peninsula. Get ready to live resort-style every day of the year with superb home features and access to a premier community that includes sandy shorelines, crashing surf and an Olympic-champion producing yacht club.

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Clayton & Clayton Realtors Join Leverage Global Partners

NETWORK OF INDEPENDENT LUXURY REAL ESTATE BROKERAGES IN THE WORLD

Clayton & Clayton Realtors Inc. Becomes Exclusive Leverage Global Partner for Bay Head, NJ.

F. Ron Smith, President of Leverage Global Partners, recently welcomed Clayton & Clayton Realtors Inc. as the Network’s exclusive member in Bay Head, NJ. A unique alignment of the most prestigious independent real estate brokerage firms around the world, Leverage Global Partners offers its members the opportunity to better serve their clients’ relocation and real estate portfolio needs by establishing each member firm as key players in the international real estate arena.

We personally vet each real estate brokerage before offering them membership, so we are certain that Clayton &…

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Luxury Real Estate Conference A Big Success

It was another successful Luxury Real Estate Fall Conference in Boston, earlier this month at the uber plush Fairmont Hotel  in Copley Plaza.

Some of the biggest brokers in luxury real estate made it to Boston for the 3-day event including Shawn Clayton from Bay Head, NJ., Christopher and Shae Invidiata of Oakville, Ont., Tim Savage from Naples, FL. and Sheri Norris from Tampa, FL., among others.

Topics of discussion varied over the three days and included one-on-one coaching from Carol Vickers and Saba Arjomand from Empower Consulting. The agenda also included:

• Using technology to win and market a listing.
• The changing homebuyer and the changing face of home design.
• Leveraging your network to grow your business.
• How to grow your…

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Our Newest Bay Head Listing on East Avenue.....A Spectacular Home!

Bay Head Lifestyle at its Best!

A spectacular Bay Head home with ocean views from every level. This Classic Bay Header home is exclusively located on East Avenue. A well designed home with 3 levels that include a wraparound porch, guest suite with its own private entrance and spacious backyard with deck. This waterfront home for sale features 6 bedroom suites, living room with fireplace, gourmet kitchen, two laundry rooms and a fabulous 3rd floor master suite with its own fireplace, office, a master bath and its own private balcony overlooking the ocean. This is an incredible location with exceptional detail throughout the home. 

 You'll find this fantastic residence at 444 East Avenue in Bay Head listed for $2.875 million. Call Shawn for a…

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Top-5 Most Off-The-Wall Vacation Homes

Check out our top-5 most off-the-wall vacation homes and see how you can rent an amazing remodeled jet or live in a shell!

1. Sleeping in the Doghouse

This is the famous Dog Bark Park Inn Bed & Breakfast in Cottonwood, ID. Cut out of wood, the unit is shaped like a giant Beagle and offers amazing views of prairie grain fields and the area mountains. It's a two bedroom unit where being in the doghouse is a good thing! Naturally dogs are welcome with their human owners.

2. Amazing Mexico Shell Home

Vacation in pampered luxury in this Caribbean Shell home at Isla Mujares, Mexico, which is off the coast of Cancun. It's a 5,500 sq. ft., two bedroom unit with a swimming pool and lush tropical landscaping overlooking the Caribbean. The…

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Top 5 Reasons To Live In Mantoloking, NJ

1. The Lifestyle

Living in Mantoloking brings about a certain lifestyle. With a population of just under 300 people, it's an exclusive area to live which is even more defined by the fact Mantoloking is the wealthiest community in New Jersey. In fact it's one of the most expensive areas to live across the entire United States. So if you're looking for an exclusive New Jersey oceanside community to call home, check out Mantoloking homes for sale.

2. The Location

Built along the Barnegat Peninsula, there aren't many places in the world like Mantoloking with water on both sides of a long strip of sand. Your front porch is the beach looking over the surf of the Atlantic Ocean, while your backyard is the beautiful Barnegat Bay with its calmer…

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Documentary Details How Lives Were Impacted By Sandy

The world premiere of a movie, "Heart of the Shore: Defying a Superstorm", documenting the lives of several New Jerseyans as they deal with the aftermath of Sandy will be on Saturday, October 11 at Seaside Park Beach. Directed by Cliff Charles and Ron Elliot, this amazing documentary details what regular folks have had to go through to get their lives back into some kind of order.

Following the utter devastation left in Sandy's wake, people living and working where the storm hit hardest faced all kinds of challenges and barriers to rebuilding and getting their lives back to some kind of normalness.

This film documents a year in the lives of those people as they fight and engage with Insurance companies, Mortgagors, and Governmental agencies to…

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Our Newest Listing.....Amazing Location On The Open Bay

One of our newer listings: 224 Squan Beach Drive in Mantoloking, with more than 191 feet on the open bay. This property is one of the large parcel of properties in Curtis Point, with two sides of water this property can easily accommodate a large yacht. This contemporary home has a unique open floor plan. The living room, kitchen, and dining room overlook the water, plus a first floor master and guest suite. Second floor two large guest suites with balcony. This private location come with tennis counts and guarded beach.  The sunsets are so amazing! View this fantastic home here.

Property is featured on the cover "American Luxury Estate"  

For more information call Shawn Clayton 732-295-2222 for a private showing.

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Does New Jersey Need 5 State Songs?

After going decades without a state song, New Jersey could soon have no less than 5 state songs.

After some 50 years of bickering, lobbying and backroom dealing, New Jersey lawmakers have come up with a unique bipartisan deal they hope will solve the long-standing State Song issue. To that end, a proposed new bill (S2438) would create five songs New Jerseyians can call their own.

Sadly none of the songs are by Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston or even Frank Sinatra. Instead the list includes:

• "I'm From New Jersey" by Red Mascara would be called the "state song"
• "New Jersey My Home" by Patrick Finley would be the "state anthem"
• "In New Jersey" has lyrics inspired by a 4th grade class would be the "state children's song"
• …

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