Paying Attention to Your Surroundings

Orchard

When you’re looking at a property, how much time do you spend outside looking at the surroundings? What are the adjacent properties? How do they look? Are you near a major road? Are there commercial or other non-residential parcels near you? Is there a farm or undeveloped land abutting or near the property? When we view homes with buyers we try to spend some time evaluating the adjoining and nearby spaces. This isn’t necessarily to

Building Stuff in Downtown Hartford

There has a been a noticeable increase in the discussion of new construction in Downtown Hartford over the past couple weeks. It started with the revelation that UConn would consider building a facility, and continued with word that the City of Hartford was thinking about building a new City Hall to consolidate office space. Ken Gosselin has worked feverishly to ferret out as many of the thirteen of the proposals submitted to UConn as he