Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
Hartford County finished June with 1,027 single family contracts. It was the third straight month of more than a thousand deals, and a gradual decline from the May peak. The month was slightly busier than the unusually active June 2015. On a year-to-date basis, the first half of 2016 was about 15% ahead of 2015. The outperformance has decreased as spring arrived, though each individual month is still ahead of the corresponding month from last
Hartford County’s active real estate market continued, with 1,056 single-family homes going under contract in May. The year-to-date contract total is more than 19% ahead of this point in 2015. The top chart shows that June was the peak of 2015 sales activity. The peak is usually a month or two earlier, which will make next month an interesting data point. Will the market be able to produce a 3rd consecutive month with over 1,000
With 1,031 single-family contracts, April 2016 took over as the single most active month in the Hartford County real estate market since we began tracking contract data in 2009. The County is 21% ahead of last year’s deal pace. April was the first month in our data set in which the contract total reached four digits. June of 2015 was the previous leader, with 994 contracts. There have only been five months overall that broke
It’s a balmy 50 degree day as I report on the January contracts. The weather so far in 2016 has not followed traditional winter patterns. One meager snow storm so far, with about 3 inches of snow at our house. It really hasn’t been that cold either. The real estate market seems to be taking its cues from the weather. There were 611 single-family contracts in Hartford County in January, an 18% increase over last
The Hartford County single-family market finished December with 529 contracts, an increase of 23% over the 429 observed in December of 2014. For the full year there were 8.980 total contracts, which was an increase of 14% over 2014. The above chart shows that 2015 outperformed every month of 2014 except January. In general, the first quarter got off to a bit of a slow start because of the regular snow storms. The weather was