Average Sales Price per Square Foot in Greater Hartford
There are various ways agents arrive at a recommended listing price range for sellers. One check we will typically use is the Average Sales Price per Square Foot for the specific town (or even specific neighborhood within a town).
Here’s a chart of towns in the Hartford area and the Average Sales Price per Square Foot for the last two years…
A couple of thoughts about this data…
1. Keep in mind that smaller houses may have a much higher Sales Price per Square Foot than larger houses because of diminishing marginal utility.
2. The decrease between 2007 and 2008 represents the fact that people aren’t willing to pay the same type of premium that they were last year. This is just another measure, like Median Sales Price, that indicates which way a market is going.
3. Somewhat obvious but, as a Buyer, if you’re looking for a more reasonably priced town, try the towns in this chart with a lower Sales Price per Square Foot.
Recommendations for Paris?
NOTE: Non-real estate related blog follows.
Kyle and I recently realized that we haven’t been on vacation in 2.5 years. We’ve decided to go to Paris, France for 6 days in January. We’ll be staying in the Latin Quarter, thanks to a helpful recommendation from another blogger.
Just wondering if any of my readers have suggestions on must sees or must visits in Paris? All of the major sites will be visited, so we’re looking for less obvious places.
Any restaurants or pâtisseries that we need to check out? Antique stores? Flea markets? Small gardens? Less traveled charming streets?
We’ll be doing a lot of walking and also taking the Metro, so feel free to recommend out-of-the-way places (still in Paris though).
Any suggestions are welcome. Feel free to post them here in the comments, send me an email, or befriend me on Facebook. Merci à l’avance des idées!
Frightening Halloween Fun- 161 Four Mile Road in West Hartford
Some people like Halloween. Lisa Campo, one of my favorite colleagues at William Raveis, LOVES Halloween. For the past 15 years, she’s been setting up intricate, gruesome scenes on her West Hartford lawn. She’ll start early in October, building all of her characters from scratch. By the time Halloween rolls around, she has a veritable haunted house in her front yard.
The magic really happens on Halloween night though, as live actors are added to the mix. Kids from the neighborhood (and from all around town really) eagerly stop by to walk through the scene, trying to guess who’s real and who isn’t. Screams of glee and fright fill the air all night. The parents have a great time too, watching their kids get frightened, although they’re often victims themselves. The ghouls on assignment particularly love to spook the parents as they’re laughing at their kids.
If you’d like to experience Lisa’s haunted lawn tour, please stop by 161 Four Mile Road in West Hartford on Halloween night, after it gets dark. You’ll have a great time, I promise. The kids will have a great time too. There’s also a rumor going around that the authors of the Greater Hartford Real Estate Blog may be posing as ghouls, but we’ll never tell. We hope you check it out!
Here’s a bit of a preview…
