Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
Single-family contracts fell to 514 in Hartford County for the month of November. The month was about 6% higher than the total from November of 2012, and the year-to-date count remains about 7% ahead of the 2012 pace. Agents we know have commented that there were parts of November when the market seemed suspiciously quiet – like so quiet that they didn’t trust their email was working properly. Despite that, the month ended with a
The fall market that we were expecting to see, and then wrote off when it didn’t turn up, magically appeared in October. There were 678 contracts written during the month, which is a 15% increase over October of 2012 and a meaningful step up in activity from last month. Contract data at the individual town level continued to bounce around. Bloomfield and Bristol had big reversals of fortune from the September report, showing just how
The West Hartford real estate market finished September 2013 with 52 closings, which was nearly 24% more than the total from September of last year. For the whole year, the 2013 transaction total is about 13% ahead of 2012. There have not been any major changes in the stats since August. The distribution of closed deals has been pretty consistent over the different price bands. The number of properties under contract has fallen slightly from
September contract data for Hartford County single-family home sales showed a decrease in activity on both a month-over-month basis and a year-over-year basis. The final count was 620 contracts for September, which was slightly behind the 625 from September 2012. We were very surprised by how the month developed. After a flurry of activity at the end of August and the beginning of September, we were expecting a strong month and a step up in
Single-family contracts dropped to 694 for the month of August, which is a continued fall-off from the spring peak yet still outpacing the 2012 results. On a year-to-date basis the 2013 deal count is about 8% ahead of where we were in 2012 as of the end of August. From an agent’s point of view, the market felt quiet in August. Deals still came together, but the pace was noticeably slower than it had been