Danielle Staub announced on her podcast that she had moved into her own home, and framed it in a way that reframes her entire property history: at 58, she said, this was a first for her. She had not previously lived in a house that was hers, furnished with her own belongings.
That single sentence explains a record that otherwise looks like a series of losses. The seven-bedroom New Jersey house that made her famous on The Real Housewives of New Jersey went through a short sale. The Englewood mansion she fought to stay in belonged to her ex-husband, and a court ordered her out of it in June 2020.
This guide sets out what actually happened with each property.
The property record
| Property | Location | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| Seven-bedroom house, her RHONJ home | Wayne, New Jersey | Listed in 2009; returned to market as a short sale in 2013; sold in 2014 |
| House of about 7,500 sq ft, owned by her third husband | Englewood, Bergen County, New Jersey | She sought to remain after the divorce; ordered by a court to leave by 20 June 2020 |
| Her own home | New Jersey area | Bought and moved into; she has described it as the first house that was hers |
Who is Danielle Staub?
Danielle Staub is an American television personality who was an original cast member of The Real Housewives of New Jersey when it launched in 2009, and one of the most talked-about figures in the franchise’s early years. She has since returned to the show intermittently and hosts a podcast.
Her marriages and finances have both been extensively covered, and both are directly relevant here, because her housing has been repeatedly tied to other people’s ownership.
The Wayne house
The house viewers know is in Wayne, in Passaic County. It had seven bedrooms and was the setting for her first seasons on the show. Reported floor areas vary considerably between sources, from around 6,200 to 10,500 square feet, and no authoritative figure has been published, so this article does not state one.
It went onto the market in 2009, the year the series began. By 2013, it was back on as a short sale, meaning the lender had agreed to accept less than was owed on the mortgage rather than foreclose. It sold in 2014.
Alongside that, she filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and reporting at the time indicated she owed the town of Wayne around $70,000 in unpaid property taxes.
A short sale is a specific and telling outcome. It means the property was worth less than the debt secured against it, and that the owner could not carry it. It is one of the clearest indicators in any property record that the house had become unaffordable.
The Englewood house
The second property was never hers. It was a house of about 7,500 square feet in Englewood, in Bergen County, owned by her third husband, Marty Caffrey, whom she married in 2018 and divorced the following year.
She sought to remain in the house after the marriage ended, and the dispute went through the courts. In 2020, she was ordered to leave by 20 June or be removed by the sheriff. Local coverage also reported that her ex-husband had listed the Bergen County property without telling her.
Whatever the merits on either side, the property outcome is unambiguous: she had no ownership interest, and she left.
The house she bought
The third entry is the one that matters. On her podcast, she said she had moved into her own home, and that at 58 years old this was a first for her, having never before been in her own house with her own furniture and belongings.
No purchase price, date, town, or property description has been published. She has not shown it in the way many reality cast members do, and no property record has surfaced.
That absence is worth respecting rather than filling. A woman who spent decades in houses that belonged to husbands, or that the bank ultimately took, choosing not to publicise the first one that was hers is an entirely coherent decision.
Where does Danielle Staub live now?
In the New Jersey area, in a home she owns.
That is the limit of what the record supports. She has been consistently based in northern New Jersey throughout her public life, in Wayne and then Englewood, and her podcast and television work keep her in that orbit. She has confirmed the purchase herself.
What is not documented is the specific property, what it cost, or the town. Some sites still list her at the Englewood address, which she has not lived at since 2020 and never owned, or at the Wayne house, which was sold in 2014. Both are wrong.
Property claims attached to Real Housewives cast members go out of date faster than almost any other category covered on this site, and are frequently reported years after the person has moved. The more stable end of the same franchise is set out in the account of Margaret Josephs’s Englewood house, which she has owned and renovated for a decade.
What the record shows
Three houses, and only the last of them hers. A short sale, an eviction from a property she had no title to, and then a purchase in her late fifties that she described as a first.
It is an unusually stark illustration of something this site encounters often: that appearing on television in a large house tells you nothing about whether the person owns it, can afford it, or will still be in it next year. A comparable arc, from an early windfall to houses lost and a later recovery, appears in the account of Fantasia Barrino’s Charlotte homes.
Sources
- Bravo on her announcement that she had moved into her own home and her comment that it was a first for her.
- Reality Tea on the Wayne house returning to the market as a short sale.
- Screen Rant on the June 2020 court order requiring her to leave the Englewood house.
- Daily Voice on the listing of the Bergen County house by her former husband.
