It’s been a wild real estate ride over the last few years. After a red-hot market characterized by very low interest rates and frenzied bidding wars, mortgage rates increased to their highest level in more than 20 years.
Read MoreDespite a 10 percent drop in Connecticut home sales in the first three months of 2024, the real estate market showed plenty of pep in many locales as people upped their offers to beat out others eyeing the same properties.
Read MoreThe 2023 real estate market saw a dip in its buyer pool for the first time since 2020. Once completely oversaturated with demand, many chose to stay put while waiting for sky-high mortgage rates to come down.
Read MoreThe policy changes could help spur price competition for agents' services and lower the cost for sellers who now typically cover the commission for the buyer's agent, as well as that of their own.
Read MoreThe current trends suggest that the Connecticut housing market leans towards being a Seller's Market. With a surge in home prices, high competition, and a limited inventory, sellers hold an advantageous position in negotiations.
Read MoreA housing or real estate bubble is a run-up in housing prices fueled by demand, speculation, and exuberant spending. It can lead to the point of collapse.
Read MoreThough mortgage rates are better now than they were in the fall, and experts are optimistic that rates will drop further in 2024, home affordability challenges aren’t going away anytime soon.
Read MoreThe home is located on a cul-de-sac near Greenfield Hill.
Read MoreConnecticut saw the fourth-highest rate of house price increases in the country since the third quarter of last year, a lasting impact from dwindling inventory that real estate agents say is unlikely to change in the near future.
Read MoreWith tight inventory levels and still-high prices, the Connecticut housing market shares many similarities with the national market. Here’s a closer look at Connecticut’s current real estate trends and where the market might go for the rest of 2023.
Read MoreDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, from 2020-22, more than 3,900 new apartments were built in Fairfield County as a result of the so-called “pandemic building boom. “ The highest number of new rental units were added to the market last year and it’s a trend that is expected to continue into next year
Read MoreA low inventory of homes for sale and high interest rates are creating a catch-22 in Connecticut’s real estate market: to push prices down would require more houses to go up for sale, but people don’t want to list their houses because prices are high, according to local real estate experts.
Read MoreHot off Connecticut's record mansion sale and with a few more big deals in the works, overall home prices continued to inch up in July as buyers sifted through a historically low number of properties on the market.
Read MoreA four-bedroom, three-bath, 4,257-square-foot house with hardwood floors, crown molding, a fireplace, bay windows, an eat-in kitchen with granite countertops and French sliding doors, a first-floor full bath, an en suite primary bedroom with vaulted ceilings and balcony with water views, a dressing room, an office with outdoor access, a laundry room, a fenced yard with a bluestone patio, and an attached two-car attached garage, on 0.34 acres.
Read MoreConnecticut continued to see historically low listings of houses for sale in April, helping prolong a sellers market that is keeping prices above pre-pandemic levels — but with too few people putting their homes on the block, creating a continuing pinch for those looking to buy.
Read MoreHigh prices are slowly starting to decline, but a low inventory and steep home mortgage costs already put homeownership out of reach for many buyers, the analysis found. What’s also contributing to the difficulty is an 8 percent increase in the number of people who pay cash, according to the analysis.
Read MoreWith little to choose from on the market, a lack of supply and an increased demand has caused home prices in the Nutmeg State to increase 10 percent in the last year alone, according to Zillow. Sellers know that serious buyers will pay more to get into a market that has pushed many home-buying hopefuls out, and the prices reflect that.
Read MoreBridgeport was once unavoidable. In the middle of the last century, the waterfront Fairfield County city 60 miles from Manhattan churned out so many kinds of products, it seemed to be almost single-handedly shaping the habits of modern life. Rolling off the assembly lines there: lipstick cases, flashlights, typewriters, fans, underwear, sewing machines, cars, scissors, guns, lace, drills, helicopters and phonograph records.
Read MoreIf “hot” was the overused word to describe the U.S. housing market in 2021, then lukewarm to outright freezing might best describe how the market fared overall this year.
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