West Hartford's Bishops Corner Whole Foods For Sale

Anyone want to buy a grocery store in West Hartford’s Bishops Corner? On Friday the Courant reported that, as part of a federal antitrust settlement, the Whole Foods store in Bishops Corner must be sold within the next six months. Whole Foods will also be selling 12 other stores currently operating around the country. The outcome is the result of a complaint initially filed by the FTC in June 2007 which tried to block Whole

A Warm Welcome for Kyle

I’m very excited to announce that Kyle Bergquist has joined the Greater Hartford Real Estate Blog and my residential real estate practice on a full-time basis. As many of you know, Kyle is my husband and has been a regular contributor for quite some time. His bio has been available on the site for a while so I’m not going to rehash the gory details. I will say that he is a smart, creative and

A Little Something Bakery – West Hartford

I have a sweet tooth. Actually, based on how much I like sugary items, it’s more likely that I have a whole mouth of sweet teeth. So recently when I was driving down Park Road in West Hartford and saw that a new bakery opened next to Hall’s Market, I just had to stop in and check it out. I was happily greeted by the owner, pastry chef and West Hartford resident, Beth Bolton and

Leaving West Hartford?

Yesterday the weather was perfect for a winter open house. Pretty much a spring day in February. My sellers in the West End of Hartford had some good traffic come through their homes, with lots of people seriously looking. I had some good conversations with the various buyers and I noticed an interesting trend emerging. Of the 23 groups of people that visited my open house, 8 were from West Hartford. Every one of them

National Real Estate Stories

It’s been a big day for real estate in the national news. The Wall Street Journal had three articles that caught my eye. And then Case-Shiller data was also announced this morning. First was the front page piece titled Price Cuts Spur Home Sales. December existing home sales data was released on Monday. The market had expected another month-over-month decrease after November’s 9.4% drop in the number of transactions. However, the December report showed a