Weekend Plans: Feb 5th 2011

Tomorrow is Groundhog Day. What do we think, gang, 6 more weeks of winter? Does it matter what the groundhog says since it’s going to take at least a couple months for the snow we already have to melt? Six more weeks of winter seems inevitable. I guess it does because if we get too much more snow we’re at risk of turning into a glacier. But glacier-like conditions would be a huge boost for

2010 Condo Market Stats

Today we’re going to look at the Hartford County condo market for 2010. Like we’ve been doing with the single-family market, we’re going to focus on the contracts written so that we have a sense of when buyers and sellers are most active. The chart below shows the number of contracts written by month for each of the past two years, which will give a good baseline for what we will see in the coming

Our 2011 Predictions

It’s the second half of January, and we haven’t even published any predictions for the year. Shame on us! The point of predictions is to get them out there early so that everyone has already forgotten about them by the time the real action starts. That way you don’t get egg on your face when the exact opposite happens. But if you get it right, then you can smugly point back to your calls and