Business Philosophy

A skilled negotiator who strives to help first-time buyers make smart real estate purchases; Art also helps seasoned investors identify ideal multi-family dwellings. Art works with sellers, helping them determine pricing that will attract serious offers and achieve the highest possible price in the shortest time.

Art brings to the practice of residential real estate a variety of communication skills, achieved through more than a decade as a newspaper reporter, and many years of international public relations and communications consulting experience.

Education

Awards And Designations

Art has been named to the New Jersey Association of Realtors Circle of Excellence for 12 years in a row -- 2011-2022.

Member of NJAR-New Jersey Association of Realtors
Member of NAR-National Association of Realtors
Member of The Liberty Board of Realtors
Member of Hudson County MLS

Areas of Expertise

Arthur Kaufman specializes in the sale of high end Waterfront condominiums as well as brownstones and multi-family buildings throughout the Hudson County Gold Coast, with a special focus on Downtown Jersey City, Hoboken, Journal Square, and the Jersey City Heights. He also handles transactions in Fort Lee, Edgewater, Weehawken, Summit, Short Hills, Millburn, Livingston, and other parts of Bergen, Essex, and Union counties. Art also handles high end rentals.

Personal Background

From 1993 until 2011, before embarking on his real estate career, Art operated one of New Jersey's most successful choose-and-cut Christmas tree farms, attracting customers from all New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and five New York boroughs. He specialized in the planting, organic cultivation, and marketing of Douglas, Concolor and Canaan fir; Blue, Norway, and Black Hills spruce; and White and Scotch pine. Art took a young tree farm and turned it into a well-known and respected operation that was featured in the Financial Times of London, the New York Daily News, the New Jersey Star Ledger and many other publications.

As Director of Public Affairs for Merck Co. Inc., Art managed a group of professionals developing international communications plans and facilitating public relations activities in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. He also oversaw the communications activities of Merck operations in Singapore, China, Australia, and Latin America.

In his earlier career, Art worked as a reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a major morning newspaper, covering everything from murders to medicine. His beats included police headquarters, the city's civil, criminal, and federal courts, and ultimately served as the newspaper's chief medical writer.