Your Guide to Buying a Home in Chatham, NJ

Buying a Home in Chatham, New Jersey

Chatham is located in Morris County

Chatham Borough and Chatham Township are quiet, carefully developed, residential communities located in north-central New Jersey near Exit 7 of Route 24. Located 25 miles west of New York City on the southern edge of Morris County. Chatham's neighboring communities are Summit, New Providence, Berkeley Heights, Long Hill, Harding, Madison, Florham Park, and Livingston. Chatham Borough and Chatham Township share a common heritage and both are often referred to by their shared name, Chatham.

Chatham consists of many fine homes, townhouses, garden apartments, and condominiums and offers suburban attractiveness as well as efficient railroad, bus, and highway commuting to New York City and surrounding metropolitan North Jersey. The downtown borough area offers many specialty shops.

There are excellent shopping facilities available nearby in Livingston, Short Hills, Summit, Morristown and, locally, at Hickory Tree in the Township and in the center of Chatham Borough.

Cultural opportunities include historical, art, garden and musical groups, as well as the facilities and programs of neighboring Drew and Fairleigh Dickinson universities. The Chatham Regional school system consistently ranks highly and the Library of the Chathams is a valuable resource to the residents.

Many outdoor recreational facilities are accessible to residents, such as, the National Wildlife Preserve (The Great Swamp) and the Morristown National Historical Park.

Many major USA corporations have located their headquarters or major facilities near Chatham, including 

• AT&T
• Wyeth
• Atlantic Mutual
• Lucent Technologies
• Nabisco
• Novartis
• Prudential
• Schering-Plough Telcordia Technologies

and others. There are also hundreds of excellent small businesses in the area serving the residents of the Chathams.