Real Estate

'Sell My House!' Melissa Gorga Says of Montville Mansion

Showing of Pond View home is topic on 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey.'

The high-end real estate market in Montville was a topic on Sunday night's episode of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey."

On the show, Melissa Gorga asks her real estate agent why there haven't been more bites for her home at 8 Pond View in Montville, which is listed for $3.8 million.

"The reason is $3.8 million is not a small sum of money and the upper-end economy is a much slimmer market than it used to be," the real estate agent, Jerry Sahlman, tells Melissa and her husband Joe Gorga.

Interested in local real estate?Subscribe to Patch's new newsletter to be the first to know about open houses, new listings and more.

Another real estate agent, Jennifer Dalton, brings a client to see the house and is not impressed. She notices a chip in a sink and a faucet handle breaks right off.

Plus, there's no pool.

Interested in local real estate?Subscribe to Patch's new newsletter to be the first to know about open houses, new listings and more.

"For 3.8 million, you better have a pool," she says.

Dalton tells the Gorgas there is "no way" they'll ever get $3.8 million and, "If you ever get that, I would take it and run."

Melissa Gorga says they won't sell the home at a loss and Dalton is free to take her clients elsewhere. (Dalton's client on the show, by the way, is celebrity stylist Misa Hylton-Brim, who has a son with musician Sean "P. Diddy" Combs.)

Gorga took to her post-show blog to explain the cracked sink "is in the kids' playroom bathroom" and a marble replacement has been ordered. They also have found a "perfect lot" on which to build a new home in Franklin Lakes, she writes.

'Too Close for Comfort'

Gorga says animosity between her and her sister-in-law, "Real Housewives" cast member and Towaco resident Teresa Giudice, is a reason they're eager to sell the home within a year.

"We did move to this town to be five minutes from Teresa's, but sometimes when you're living in the same town and you're going to all the same dance and the same gymnastics and the same high school, that's, in the siutation that we're in, is too close for comfort," she says on the show.

Joe Gorga says he loves the house, which he says could have sold for $6 million in previous years, and doesn't want to move.

"I love my house," he says. "I don't want to go. My wife's unhappy, so we're gonna go."

And, if his wife has her way, it will be soon.

"Gotta do this this year, Jerry," Melissa Gorga says. "Sell my house!"


Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.

We’ve removed the ability to reply as we work to make improvements. Learn more here