Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
I’ve been cruising around the web looking for some new local blogs to visit on a daily basis. I found a few winners and I’d like to share them. I’ve also added them to my BlogRoll for your convenience. Enjoy! Hartford Scoop is a relatively new blog and focuses on “all things related to Hartford.” They have a good mix of suggestions for hip, social things to do and opinion pieces. They seem a little
Looking for something free to do this weekend? Go check out Governor Jodi Rell’s digs at the govenor’s mansion at 990 Prospect Avenue in Hartford. If you’d like, bring a new, unwrapped toy that will be distributed to a needy family in the Greater Hartford area. The home will be open for visitors from 10am-3pm on both Friday and Saturday and from 12pm-4pm on Sunday. I attended last year and was pleasantly surprised. Nice house,
Who can pass up twinkly lights and festive floral arrangements, housed at some of the most impressive architectural gems in Hartford? Not me, and hopefully not you. For 27 years, The Friends of the Mark Twain House & Museum have been organizing a holiday tour of beautiful homes in Hartford. This year the tour takes place on Sunday, December 2nd from 11:00am to 4:00pm. The cost is $30 per person if you purchase your tickets
My favorite mantra in residential real estate is “the market is local.” You can read all of the national news reports you want about how foreclosures are overwhelming Ohio and Michigan and how housing prices are dropping faster than Britney’s fan base. But if you live in an economy like Connecticut with a stable job market and reasonably paced home construction, you shouldn’t expect the sky to fall on the housing market. And after doing
Continuing on with real estate statistics for local areas, here are the most recent stats for Hartford’s West End… All of the data is pulled from the Multiple Listing Service and “while deemed reliable, is not guaranteed.” This includes public, MLS transactions only, no private sale data is included. My observations: 1. The median sales price is down 8% when comparing 2007 to 2006. 2. Homes are selling, on average, approximately 3 weeks faster when