108 West Ave, Ocean City, NJ 08226

Some houses on this island are investments. Some are escapes. The rarest ones are both. 108 West Ave sits on one of the North End’s best blocks—not just by reputation, but by feel: the kind of street where neighbors know each other’s names, where kids ride bikes down the alley at dusk, where the block itself has become the amenity. North Street Park, Doozie’s, and Barefoot are all just a few steps away. The house has been lived in, loved, and invested in by a single owner over six intentional years. What looks like a classic 1958 shore cottage has been quietly, systematically transformed: new roof, new plumbing to the main line, HVAC, tiled half bath with zellige tile and a Delta faucet, zellige-tiled laundry room, a renovated kitchen with GE and Samsung appliances, custom window treatments, closet systems in two bedrooms, a Samsung washer/dryer, and a Farrow & Ball palette—Inchyra Blue, De Nimes, Slipper Satin, Mizzle, and Light Blue—that makes every room feel considered rather...