June Contracts: Active into Summer

Hartford County Single Family Contracts in June 2014

Hartford County single-family home sales continued to be strong in June, with about 2.7% more deals than in June of last year. June is usually a transition month for the real estate markets. It is rarely the peak of activity, but it’s not a slow summer month either. Buyers continued to be engaged all the way to the end of June, and even into the first few days of July. At this point it’s not

May Contracts: A Late Spring

Hartford County Single Family Contracts in May 2014

Hartford County finished May of 2014 with 907 single-family contracts, a late spring spike in activity after a slow start to the year. The 907 May total is a 6% increase over the count in May of 2013. It also begins to close the year-to-date gap that had build up over the first four months of the year, leaving us only 3% behind through May. This month’s total is also the highest count for an

The Rising Bar of Move-In Ready

LovelyHome

Nice homes are always in demand in Greater Hartford. Despite what we hear reported about a wholesale exodus from the state, fully updated properties tend to sell. There are people who want to live in this area, and many of those people would prefer to buy a home in which they don’t have to make many repairs. We recently wrote about a decrease in buyer demand in core price points. The buyer pool doesn’t seem

View From an Open House

Inside Out

We like to show lots of pictures of the houses we’re trying to sell. Usually they’re geared towards selling the home – showing off the inside and outside of the property. Here’s one from a different perspective, mine as the real estate agent. I took this after I finished setting up for a Sunday open house.

April Contracts: Still Lagging

2014-05-06 Hartford County Single Family Contracts in April 2014

Hartford County registered 780 single-family contracts in April of 2014, compared to 845 during April of the previous year, a more than 7% decrease in activity. Four months into the year, the chart appears to be showing a typical seasonal distribution with simply fewer deals than in 2013. This suggests that there is nothing unusual going on in the market, it’s just slower than it was last year. As previously discussed, there has been a