Separated at Birth?
We noticed the home on the left in West Hartford and were struck by how familiar it looked. A side-by-side comparison shows an uncanny resemblance.
Author: Kyle
Mortgages: Purchasing Power versus Conservatism
We’ve been thinking a lot about mortgages lately. Something that jumps out at us is just how much of an opportunity the combination of declining mortgage rates and falling home prices has created for buyers. Interest rates for 30-year fixed mortgages were around 6% during the early and mid-2000s when we bought our house. Those same loans are now available for interest rates of 4% or less, and 15-year fixed mortgages are available for just
Quick Tour: Hartford’s West End
Transcript Welcome to the quick tour of Hartford’s West End neighborhood, I’m Kyle Bergquist of Greater Hartford Real Estate TV. Not surprisingly, the West End is on the western edge of the City. It’s made up of all the land north of Capital Avenue and West of the Park River’s north fork. The neighborhood is mostly residential, with single-family and multi-family homes built in the very late 1800s and early 1900s. Apartments are available throughout
Hartford Public Safety Complex Facade
Last week the Courant reported that the Hartford Safety Complex building on High Street in Downtown Hartford was approaching completion. The project has been been in the news over the years for the wrong reasons, the most noteworthy being that the main facade had to be taken down rather than preserved. Now that the project is basically done, how did the City and their team do putting it all back together? Does the Public Safety
Strawberry Picking in Greater Hartford
Transcript Strawberry season has arrived, and we traveled to South Glastonbury to pick our first flat of the year. Bright sun and warm temperatures welcomed pickers to Carini’s Berry Farm on this June morning. Despite a heavy rainstorm the previous evening, with reports of hail, the fields were ready for harvesting. Large, sweet, berries filled the plants and eventually our flat. Carini’s is hoping for another two weeks of picking, and is keeping their fingers