Arlene
Gonnella
Team Leader / Sales Associate
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About
Began her career in business at Bankers Trust Company in 1978, after graduating from Vassar College in 3 years. While working at Merrill Lynch, Arlene decided to leave finance and become a real estate agent.
In 1985 Arlene began her career in real estate. She spent fifteen years, working for Distinctive Properties and thenPrudential Properties, learning and mastering the Short Hills, Millburn market.
In 2000 Arlene moved to Weichert Realtors where she has remained, producing over 2.7 billion dollars worth of real estate transactions in 24 years, including a record $243m in 2022. In 2020, The Gonnella Team was the #1 Agents on the Midtown Direct Train Line in New Jersey, as well as the #1 team in New Jersey among Large Teams. We were #30 in the entire country!
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Arlene has ranked as the #1 Agent in Millburn/Short Hills market for 19 years! 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024. Meaning she has represented more buyers and sellers than any other agent in Millburn-Short Hills! In 2020, The Gonnella Team represented 5x the buyers moving into Millburn/Short Hills than the 2nd highest agent.
The Gonnella Team have also been the #1 Agents in all of Essex County for 14 years, as well as the #1 Agents Nationally at Weichert, Realtors for 19 years! And that’s out of 18,000 agents! Arlene’s 40 years of experience and expertise is simply unmatched. She is incredibly patient and will move heaven and earth to help you!
Arlene is a supporter of the Valerie fund, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (Light the Night), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the Sammy Gelband Foundation, St. Barnabas Hospital, AJC-Global Jewish Advocacy, Paper Mill Playhouse, Robin Hood Foundation, Millburn Film Festival, Family Promise, and the Cyan Gray Foundation. The cause closest to her heart is Avon Walk for breast cancer. She has helped raise $250,000 to date & walked 39 miles in Santa Barbara in 2012, in San Francisco in 2013, in Chicago in 2014 (where her daughter, Trish, was the keynote speaker), and New York in 2015. Her daughter, Trish, is a stage 4 breast cancer survivor, and fearlessly documented her journey to motherhood via surrogacy as a stage 4 cancer survivor in her documentary, Love Always, Mom. The documentary about the journey to the birth of her son, Grayson, won many film festival awards around the country and is now available on Amazon Prime!
Giving Back to the Community
The GonnellaTeam is committed to supporting charities and non-profits that make the world a better place, both locally and nationally. We focus on three areas that are most important to us; Children, Health, and specifically Cancer related issues as they are closest to our heart, and Local charities, as we believe in giving back to the community that we’ve raised our families in and have loved for 36+ years!
Children
- The Valerie Fund
- The Robin Hood Foundation
- Family Promise of Essex County
- Millburn Film Festival
- Newark Academy Student via the Newark Academy Winter Benefit
- Success Academy Charter School
- Education Foundation of Millburn-Short Hills
- Millburn Sports Foundation
- The Friendship Circle
- Junior League of the Oranges and Short Hills
Local & The Arts
- Millburn Volunteer First-Aid Squad
- Paper Mill Playhouse, local theater
- AJC – Global Jewish Advocacy
- Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
- Down the Block, Inc., organization that can step in to pay a bill for a Township citizen experiencing unforseen financial need
Cancer / Health
- Cyan Gray Hope Foundation
- CANCERcare of New Jersey, Help and Hope Walk NJ, supports cancer research and development of cancer medications
- The Connie Dwyer Breast Center at St. Michael’s Medical Center
- Avon Walk for Breast Cancer Research
- NEXT for Autism
- Millburn Public Schools via the Department of Special Services for parental and professional development promoting Autism Awareness
