Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
Hartford County finished November with 646 single-family home contracts, which was slightly fewer than the total from November 2016. On a year-to-date basis, the market is about 0.5% ahead of last year. Monthly deal counts followed the 2016 trends very closely for the past few months as the market began to wind down for the year. December is off to an active start, but will continue the quieting trend. There tend to be fewer home
Hartford County had 727 single-family homes deals come together during the month of October. The total was about 3% fewer than October 2016, though on a year-to-date basis the market is very slightly ahead of 2016. Discussion of the State budget situation was unavoidable during October. It was regularly a leading news story, and was not fully resolved until the Governor signed a budget on Halloween. Budget talk seemed to come up all the time,
Hartford County finished September with 739 single-family home contracts, in line with the September 2016 result. On a year-to-date basis, 2017 is about 1% ahead of 2016 in terms of the total number of deals. This month our series on contract data tentatively returns. The local MLS system still does not allow the method of data gathering that we have been doing since 2009, but tech support helped us find a workaround. It is more
Connecticut realtors recently upgraded the software we use to access our MLS database. The primary improvement was a modernization of the site that our clients use to browse property matches. There were some behind-the-scenes changes that impact agents, but nothing particularly noteworthy. While testing out the new system, I found the feature that searches by “Drive Time.” It allows us to create a search to find properties within a certain commuting distance. Specifically, I set
We have, unfortunately, suspended our monthly contracts series. We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope to restart it in the future. If you’re interested in learning why we’ve had to suspend the series, then read on… Our local MLS upgraded the software that agents use to access the MLS at the end of July. Although the new software is an improvement in a number of areas, it does not allow us to gather contract data