Separated at Birth?
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.
195 North Beacon Street, Hartford’s West End
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
Mortgages: Purchasing Power versus Conservatism
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
Quick Tour: Hartford’s West End
Transcript Welcome to the quick tour of Hartford’s West End neighborhood, I’m Kyle Bergquist of Greater Hartford Real Estate TV. Not surprisingly, the West End is on the western edge of the City. It’s made up of all the land north of Capital Avenue and West of the Park River’s north fork. The neighborhood is mostly residential, with single-family and multi-family homes built in the very late 1800s and early 1900s. Apartments are available throughout
The Appraiser is Coming!
We are refinancing our home. Again. For the third time in eight years of ownership. Does that tell you anything about what mortgage rates have been doing? Dropping, dropping, dropping. Oh yeah, and also that we have no intention of moving. In 2004 we started with a 30-year fixed rate mortgage. In 2005 we refinanced to another 30-year mortgage because we originally had a NINJA loan (No Income, No Job or Asset- hey, we were