

Pierre, the nine-square-mile township on the northern border of Union County has it all: a variety of residential neighborhoods with many affordable housing options, a major university, an array of restaurants, local shops and big-box stores, easy commuting to New York City and Newark Liberty International Airport, and what some would argue are the best hot dogs in New Jersey.Īnother selling point for Union? The township’s diversity.

Since then, he has updated the kitchen and the bathrooms.įor many first-time buyers like Mr. Pierre found when he and his fiancée, Sunday Lima, toured 15 houses and settled on a 1938 three-bedroom colonial with two and a half bathrooms and “good bones,” which he bought for $294,000 in August.
