West Hartford Real Estate Market Report

Interested in selling or buying a house or condo in West Hartford? Here is the latest market data as of today… Average Days on Market for a single family home in West Hartford is 61 days, as of today. If you’re a seller in the price range of $351K-$400K, you don’t have much competition. If you’re a buyer in this price range, be ready to see houses as soon as they come on the market.

Condo Commission Needed in CT?

Earlier this week, AG Richard Blumenthal asked state legislators to form a review board that would deal with condo association complaints. Apparently, Blumenthal’s office has received hundreds of complaints from condo owners across the state that claim their association’s governing boards are blatantly violating state laws or their association’s bylaws. The board would be used to act as a mediator between condo unit owners and condo association officials. The Courant’s Consumer Watchdog put in his

Did I Buy the Right House?

Have you ever asked yourself if you bought the right house? Kyle asked me that question this morning. Talk about conversation starters at breakfast! My response was “Well, I don’t know. Which house would we have bought instead?” For background purposes, we looked at a total of 25 houses over 3 days in the towns of Hartford, West Hartford, Farmington, Glastonbury, and Wethersfield when we relocated from Virginia four years ago. We were not familiar

Greater Hartford Housing Inventories Continued…

I recently received a few off-line comments about my recent post regarding real estate inventory levels in the Greater Hartford area. Remember, real estate inventory for a specific town is calculated by taking the current number of homes on the market in that town and dividing it by the number of closings during the previous month in that town, or some derivation thereof. In my calculation, I used February of 2008 to get the resulting

Fabulous Friday Finds- More MLS Photos

Great news this week for home sellers and buyers in the Greater Hartford area. The CTMLS (the database most Connecticut real estate agents use to share information about your home) has increased the photo allowance from 10 to 20 pictures for each listing! So, when you’re surfing Realtor.com or Raveis.com or whatever website you use to look at homes for sale, now you should be able view more pictures. Obviously this puts more pressure on