This Thursday, the residents of Farmington have an important decision to make regarding the future of the Krell Farm. The town is holding a special referendum vote, allowing residents to decide if the town should buy 90 of the farm’s 98 acres for $6.75 million, which will preserve the land as open space. If Farmington’s residents decide against buying the acreage, a developer will most likely step in and buy the land, at a much
By age 24, most people have settled into the “9 to 5†and have an initial experience with working life. Every so often you find someone who has taken a non-traditional path and seems to be blazing new ones. This week I met with one of these refreshing individuals, real estate developer Pete Marsele. His first major project, Woodland Lofts, was announced earlier this week in the Hartford Business Journal. So how did Marsele, who
As a continuation from yesterday’s West Hartford 2007 residential real estate review, here is the data for the Farmington Valley. Again, all data is for single family homes only that were listed and transacted in the Multiple Listing Service. I’m also including the current inventory levels which indicate how the market is currently doing. Historically, 0-3 months of inventory is a seller’s market, 3-6 months of inventory is a neutral market, and 6+ months of
Everyone and their uncle seems to be offering their thoughts and predictions for the national housing market in 2008. Let’s take a look and see how West Hartford did when comparing 2006 to 2007. Because, as we all know, housing is local. This is not Phoenix or Vegas or Miami. All data was pulled from the Multiple Listing Service (insert the standard “deemed reliable but not guaranteed” disclaimer here…) and represents single family homes sales
This Sunday, January 6, the central branch of the West Hartford Public Library will re-open after a year(plus)-long renovation. Stop by the Main Street location between 1PM and 4PM to check out the new digs. The ribbon cutting will be at 2PM, if you care for pomp and circumstance. The kiddos can engage with balloon artists and magicians and the dueling Conard and Hall high school jazz bands. They’ve added 17,000 square feet of space