686 Chestnut Hill Road, Glastonbury

686 Chestnut Hill

Freshly painted inside and out, this home has both formal and informal living spaces in a convenient floor plan. The main level features a formal living room with fireplace and built-ins and a formal dining room. The kitchen has plenty of cabinetry for storage and eat-in space. There is a 3-season room with a woodstove that overlooks the backyard. Upstairs you’ll find three nicely sized bedrooms. The master bedroom has its own bathroom and there

July Contracts: Defining the Spring Market Peak

2014-08-05 Hartford County Single Family Contracts in July 2014

There were 696 single-family contracts in July 2014, showing a significant drop in market activity from June of this year. The total was about 9% below the contract count for July of 2013. Summer months can be hit or miss, and on the whole this was a down month for the County. Our informal view was that the market felt active in July, which probably just means that the towns and price ranges that we

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

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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