Real estate sales on Long Beach Island and the adjacent shore have received a boost from COVID-19 to a degree that many established agents and brokers have never seen before. LBI is more a haven than ever, even sometimes at the exclusion of more-storied resorts now considered a less convenient, farther reach.

“The market is exceptional,” said Bonnie Wells, a broker with Coastal Living Real Estate Group. “We have multiple high-end buyers in the $5 million to $7 million range. Listings in the $4 million to $7 million range historically have had a low percentage of buyers, so remained on the market longer. This is no longer the case; these listings are getting constant attention, rallying the market to a whole new level we haven’t seen before.”

What they say about location, location, location driving value is truer in 2020, and LBI has it.