Your private, top floor retreat combines the architectural details of the early 1900s with modern updates to create a bright, comfortable, spacious and interesting home. Enter through the foyer into the oversized living room, which features a working fireplace and built-in shelving, in addition to crown molding and hardwood floors. Quadruple windows overlook the tree-filled courtyard and the building’s intricate roofline. An open double doorway leads to the generous formal dining room, with more tree-filled
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The magical 2012 cap on real estate contracts extended through June, with another month at virtually the same number as March, April and May. The consistency is an odd result, and forced me to rerun the analysis to make sure it’s right (which it seems to be). 732 Hartford County single-family contracts came together in the month of June, which was just over a 21% increase from June of 2011. The first half of 2012
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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.
This striking stucco Colonial is located on a popular block in the West End, close to Elizabeth Park. The home offers 7 bedrooms, 3 full and 1 half bathrooms over 4,131 square feet. Mature perennial gardens and a blue stone walkway lead you to the home with its freshly painted exterior. Inside, an open foyer leads to the formal living room which features French doors and a fireplace with gas insert. A heated sunroom with
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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
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