Tough break, New Jersey.
Because they’re designed to cap popular deductions that benefit homeowners and limit the number of itemizers, the Republican tax bills are expected to put a dent in house prices around much of the United States. And, under the recently passed Senate version, nowhere seems to get it worse than the Garden State. According to modeling by Moody’s Analytics, 15 of the country’s 30 hardest hit counties would be in New Jersey. Homes in the lovely bedroom communities of Essex County, just over the river from Manhattan, would suffer the country’s biggest setback, losing more than a tenth of their value.
