Labor Day unofficially marks the end of summer. Vacations are over for the most part. Kids are headed back to school. The drawbridge to the Cape is raised. Now is the perfect time to look back at the full spectrum of data for the spring real estate market in the Hartford area. Most people try to plan their moves between the months of May and August. This behavior follows the break in the school cycle,
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This real estate market really has me scratching my head. In the past two days, I have been in two multiple offer situations with different buyers. In each case, my buyers “won,” but of course it was a stressful time for my clients and me. The first house was on the market for 3 days. The second house was on the market for 1 day. The houses were in different towns. We found two properties
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I’m sorry if this post comes off as something of a rant, but I am a very “by the book” agent and things like what I’m about to describe make my blood boil. The Hartford Courant has a nice little blurb in every Sunday real estate section about “Moving In…” where they talk about people that recently purchased property in various towns in the Hartford area. This past weekend the “Moving In” article was about
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I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was invited to be on Face the State. The program aired yesterday. You can see the panel discussion in Part 1 and Part 2. I hoped this would spark something of a discussion. What are your thoughts on Hartford’s biggest problems and how to fix them? And if you’d like to grade the Mayor, please feel free. I just wasn’t going there.
Those Google folks are always working hard to gather and index information. On occasion it relates to real estate and is actually directly useful in the buying and selling process. The ongoing rollout of the Street Views feature of Google Maps is a helpful tool for buyers interested in getting a sense of how houses fit into the overall neighborhood. The blue roads on the above map show where Street Views are available. Some towns in our
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