B&Co. Realty · Closter, New Jersey
Boutique luxury real estate brokerage in Closter, NJ.
B&Co. Realty advises buyers, sellers, builders, and private clients across Closter and Bergen County — senior-led advisory, private-market intelligence, and discreet execution from the first conversation.
Local Office
10 McKinley St, Suite 10.
The Closter office is the local point of contact for B&Co. Realty. Consultations are by appointment, with every buyer and seller relationship led by senior advisory from the first conversation.
B&Co. Realty
10 McKinley St, Suite 10
Closter, NJ 07624
Open Monday to Saturday, 9am to 8pm; Sunday, 8am to 8pm. Visits by appointment.
Bergen County Focus
Advisory for high-design homes, private listings, and builder-grade opportunities.
Buyers
Search support for luxury homes, private opportunities, and pre-market inventory across Closter and the surrounding Northern Valley towns.
Sellers
Pricing, preparation, creative direction, and listing strategy built for clients who expect discretion and senior-only execution.
Builders
Parcel intelligence, acquisition signals, buyer fit, and design-aware positioning for new construction and development opportunities.
Before a decision
What should I check before buying or changing a Closter home?
Closter’s Zoning Officer reviews more than new buildings: the Borough specifically includes additions, garages, decks, pools, driveways, patios, fences and sheds. A denied application can be revised or taken to the appropriate board for relief. Before treating a listing’s renovation potential as part of its value, compare the existing survey, the zoning map and the proposed work with the Borough’s zoning resources.
For a purchase, start with the home’s value and comparable sales, then keep buyer closing costs separate from the asking price. For a sale, work through seller closing costs before choosing a net target. Compare assessments and tax bills on their stated year and basis; use the Northern Valley commute guide to check the actual service and stop for the address.
14 Maplewood Road, Closter · Property marketing case study
A center-hall colonial, presented through its plan.
B&Co. Realty handled the completed transaction for this Closter home. Its archived campaign described a center-hall colonial through the way its rooms work together: an open main level, a kitchen with a butler’s pantry and breakfast area, a separate office, and a finished lower level with recreation and gym space. Natural stone, tile and hardwood were documented as distinct finishes.
That presentation gives a seller a concrete preparation checklist: make the room sequence clear, document the finish and condition, and show how the lower level is used. Those details also give a buyer better questions to bring to a viewing and a property-specific valuation.
Read the valuation method · Prepare the disclosure · Plan seller closing costs.
A short film · 1 minute 21 seconds
Closter, in Dates.
The borough’s history in ten dates, from the Nagel brothers’ 1710 purchase in the King’s Woods to the railroad village of 1859, the borough of 1904 and the nature center of 1962.
Closter, in Dates: transcript and sources for Closter’s history · Alpine, in Dates · Watch on YouTube
Reading Closter
The setting. The building. The next chapter.
Begin with the particular address: the bus stop, the building as it stands, the changes being considered.
Connection
For rail, the Borough points to NJ TRANSIT’s Pascack Valley Line at Emerson or Oradell. The Borough’s transportation page names NJ TRANSIT route 167 on Schraalenburgh Road and Rockland Coaches route 20 on Harrington Avenue and Closter Dock Road, both to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, with a southbound shelter at Piermont Road and parking on Third Street.
Borough transportation page
NJ TRANSIT 157/167/177 timetable
Rockland Coaches schedules
Context
The Planning Board prepares and revises the Master Plan and reviews zoning ordinances against it; the Zoning Officer’s page carries the zoning map. The Division of Taxation lists Closter Borough among its 2026 approved revaluations and reassessments.
Possibility
A renovation begins with the existing building and a clear scope. Closter’s Building Department enforces the Uniform Construction Code and local zoning, and its page sets out when a zoning permit or a construction permit is needed; the Zoning Officer reviews additions, decks, pools and fences first.
Service Areas
Closter first. Northern Valley fluent.
Before the property decision
Check the records for a Closter property
Confirm the current property-tax bill
The Borough's Tax Collections page identifies the office responsible for property-tax bills and links its online portal. Use that office to check the current bill for the address you are considering, keeping the property's own charges separate from the town averages below.
Ask for the property's existing records
Closter's Borough Clerk handles Open Public Records Act (OPRA) requests. Start with the clerk's office when asking how to obtain existing permits, final-inspection records or land-use decisions. Identify the address, block and lot, and describe the records you need.
Local resource pages checked 16 October 2026. The State tax tables below retain their stated tax years and source dates.
By the State’s numbers
Closter in the Division of Taxation’s tables.
What the State publishes about residential property tax in Closter, taken from the New Jersey Division of Taxation’s own tables for tax year 2025 and its 2026 assessment list. Averages describe the municipality, not any one home; a given property’s bill is its own assessment times the rate.
| General tax rate, 2025 | 2.072 per $100 of assessed value |
|---|---|
| Effective tax rate, 2025 | 2.017 |
| Average residential assessment, 2025 | $944,688 |
| Average residential tax bill, 2025 | $19,574 |
| Residential sales tabulated, 2025 | 24 · average price $1,436,517 |
| Residential line items, 2025 | 2,697 |
| Average residential assessment, 2026 list | $1,058,359 · on the 2026 approved revaluation and reassessment list |
Figures as published by the New Jersey Division of Taxation: 2025 General Tax Rates by County and Municipality, 2025 Average Residential Statistics and 2026 Average Residential Statistics, read 13 September 2026. For Closter, the 2025 general tax rate is 2.072 per $100 of assessed value — the multiplier a bill is computed from — and the effective tax rate is 2.017, the Division’s statistical comparison of districts assessed at full value, which its own definitions say is not to be used to compute a bill. What the two rates mean, and how Closter compares with the other towns on this site, is set out in the Bergen County property-tax guide. Closter is on the Division’s 2026 approved revaluation and reassessment list, so the 2026 figure is a new assessment base; the 2025 rate is struck against the 2025 base and does not apply to it. The same figures for all seventeen town pages are published as data at /data/town-tax.json.
Questions
Closter, answered.
Where is B&Co. Realty located?
B&Co. Realty is located at 10 McKinley St, Suite 10, Closter, NJ 07624.
What areas does B&Co. Realty serve?
B&Co. Realty serves Closter, Alpine, Tenafly, Cresskill, Demarest, Haworth, Englewood, Englewood Cliffs, Harrington Park, Norwood, Old Tappan, Ridgewood, Fort Lee, and Edgewater in Bergen County, West New York in Hudson County, and the broader Bergen County luxury real estate market. The firm is licensed in New Jersey; a property elsewhere is handled by referral to a broker licensed in that state.
Is B&Co. Realty a transaction broker?
Yes. B&Co. Realty works as a New Jersey transaction broker: under the Real Estate Commission's Consumer Information Statement definition, a transaction broker does not promote the interests of one party over those of the other party to the transaction, and serves as a manager of the transaction, communicating information between the parties. How the engagement is structured and compensated is set out in writing at the outset.
Does B&Co. Realty work with off-market listings?
Yes. B&Co. Realty works with active, pre-market, and private off-market opportunities for buyers, sellers, and developers who value discretion.
What does it cost to sell a house in Closter, NJ?
The state charges are the same in Closter as anywhere in New Jersey: the Realty Transfer Fee on nearly every sale, and the Graduated Percent Fee once the price passes $1,000,000 — paid by the seller since July 10, 2025 and charged on the entire price, not the amount above the threshold. The brokerage commission is agreed in writing and is not a fixed rate. Every figure, with its statute, is set out in B&Co. Realty's New Jersey closing-cost reference.
How is a home in Closter valued?
The same way a defensible valuation is built anywhere in the Northern Valley: it selects genuinely comparable recent sales, adjusts them for the differences a spreadsheet flattens, and tests the result against how the property will be received by the buyers most likely to want it. The method, and what it deliberately leaves out, is set out in how a home is valued. It is not an automated estimate and it is not an appraisal.
Is Closter in the Northern Valley?
Yes. Closter is one of the Northern Valley towns of Bergen County, alongside Alpine, Cresskill, Demarest and Tenafly, and it is where B&Co. Realty keeps its office, at 10 McKinley St, Suite 10. The Northern Valley reads as one region on the map and lives as many on the ground; county-wide figures for the market Closter sits in are on the Bergen County market page.
What is the property tax rate in Closter, NJ?
For tax year 2025 the New Jersey Division of Taxation publishes a general tax rate of 2.072 per $100 of assessed value for Closter and an effective tax rate of 2.017. The average residential assessment was $944,688 and the average residential tax bill $19,574. The general rate is the multiplier a bill is computed from; the effective rate is the State's comparison across districts as if every one were assessed at full value, and the Division says it is not to be used to compute a bill. Closter is on the Division's 2026 approved revaluation and reassessment list, so its 2026 assessments are a new base and the 2025 rate does not apply to them.
Reference, sourced to statute, method or the published Bergen County report: what a New Jersey seller pays at closing · how a Bergen County home is valued · the Bergen County market as reported · how attorney review works · what a seller must disclose · what a buyer pays at closing · the State’s property-tax figures for seventeen towns · how to appeal a Bergen County assessment · what a New Jersey home inspection covers · what happens when an appraisal comes in low · how to get to Manhattan from the Northern Valley · how an off-market sale works.
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