A fantastic Scoville-designed home presents West End charm at its best. This Victorian has been thoughtfully updated and impeccably maintained throughout the years. Original features abound with numerous stained glass windows, marble sinks, canvas ceilings, 4 fireplaces, and yellow ironspot brick exterior. The welcoming foyer is flanked by an office and the formal living room with fireplace. An oversized dining room features another fireplace and built-in hutch and is perfect for entertaining. The tastefully renovated
While reviewing real estate transaction data, the following chart caught our attention. It shows the number of single-family home sales that have closed in Hartford County over rolling 12 month periods. Said another way, each data point is the number of total sales over the previous 12 months. Note that this chart has nothing to do with values, only transaction counts. The line in the chart bounces around in the 8,000 deals-per-year range from the
We found Portsmouth to be a very interesting place. And as residents of an area trying to build the type of vibrancy that they seemed to already have, it was difficult not to compare and contrast Portsmouth with the Hartford area. For background, the City of Portsmouth proper is only 15.6 square miles and has a population of about 21,000. This is about the same geographic size as our municipalities, as the City of Hartford
This weekend is the 2013 Riverfront Dragon Boat and Asian Festival at the Mortensen Riverfront Plaza. Here are some images from this morning’s qualifying heats. Looks like the races run all day Saturday and Sunday, so there’s still time to see the boats in action.
There were 766 single-family contracts written in July in Hartford County. This is an 11% increase over July in 2012, and about a 6% decrease from last month. One important point to note is that we have revised the June contract count upwards by a significant number – see the original June post here. While working on the July numbers we found a spreadsheet error that had caused 67 contracts to be omitted from the
