You Snooze, You Lose

I had an agent call me yesterday regarding a listing I have that recently went under contract. They had a client that was interested in seeing the home, but realized it was under contract. The agent was calling to get a sense of how solid the transaction seemed, wondering if they should show the home to their client. I mentioned that I felt the contract was fairly solid, but they would be welcome to show

Happy Birthday GHREB!

The Greater Hartford Real Estate Blog turns 2 today. Kyle and I took a few moments to celebrate this milestone and even bought the blog a cake! The blog loves chocolate, and definitely appreciated the generous frosting and shavings. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our readers. Hopefully the blog is both interesting and entertaining. We both enjoy writing about real estate and are glad to have found an

Multiple Offer Madness

I’m not exactly sure what is going on this spring, but my buyer clients seem to be multiple-offer magnets. And the properties we’re looking at aren’t necessarily hot, new listings. Some of the homes have been on the market for quite some time. One of the trends that I’m noticing with multiple offer situations in a “buyers market” is the fact that the properties aren’t necessarily going at or over asking price, even though there

West Hartford Sales Trends

One of my favorite real estate statistics is the number of homes sold. It is a simple metric that is not influenced by the purchase price of properties. Only the seasonality of the real estate markets needs to be considered. I like to look at the trailing 12 month number of transactions so that I am always getting data from each month of the year. Previous posts have shown that prices in West Hartford have