Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
Daylight savings starts on Sunday … or maybe it ends on Sunday. I can never remember if we save daylight in the summer or winter. Whatever it’s called, the clocks spring forward on Sunday morning at 2am, costing us an hour of sleep. Looking at the bright side of the issue (ha!), it will be light even later in the evenings this coming week, allowing home buyers to actually see the houses they tour after
Here are a couple of house pictures for your Monday morning. Both are older homes in the City of Hartford. I really like the front porch of the first home and the overall look and detailing of the second. Both were built in the early 1900s. Enjoy!
Negotiated contracts on single-family homes in February 2011 were down about 24% from the year-previous monthly tally. We thought the market felt slow, and the numbers definitely support our anecdotal evidence. Activity levels varied widely between towns. Avon came out of the month as the big winner with a sharp increase in contracts. At the other end of the spectrum, Enfield and Southington finished with less than half the market activity of last year. The
We spend a lot of time talking about single-family homes and condominiums, but multi-family properties are another important part of the local housing scene. Where are the the multi-families in Hartford County? As you can see by the number of contracts written on this type of property over the past two years, they are concentrated in just a few towns. Lots in Hartford and New Britain, and a solid number in Bristol, Manchester, and East
We hope to do some more in-depth pieces about the various neighborhoods in Hartford this year. Until we get to that, here is a nice article from the Courant’s Tom Condon about happenings in Frog Hollow.