In Love & Chocolate at Liquid Lunch Shelton CT - 01/31/12 08:37 PM
In Love & Chocolate at Liquid Lunch Shelton CT Liquid Lunch in Shelton CT, voted the best place to have lunch in Fairfield County CT according to Connecticut Magazine Reader’s Choice: Best Restaurants for 2012, is giving back to the community by hosting a Valentine Day event,  “In Love & Chocolate” on Sunday, February 12, from 1-4 p.m.The restaurant’s 6 Research Drive location will be the location for the event.  Purchase tickets for In Love & Chocolate or make a donation here.  Price is $20 per person.  All tickets purchased through the website will be held at Will Call. Please call … (7 comments)

Not Paying Your HOA Fees Is The #1 Killer of Short Sales and Deed In Lieu - 01/30/12 05:59 PM
 
If you are having trouble making mortgage payments and live in community with a homeowners association (HOA), please do everything you can to keep current with payments. 
HOAs can and will foreclose for unpaid dues and assessments. If you get involved in a short sale, the non-payment of HOA fees can derail a short sale, as Katerina Gasset, Florida short sale expert, points out here.   
 
Via Nestor & Katerina Gasset Realtors® Wellington Florida Homes For Sale (International Properties and Investments, Inc.):
Not paying your HOA Fees is the #1 Killer of Short Sales and Deed in Lieu. 
Many homeowners … (1 comments)

Kitchens Sell. Refrigerator Magnet Collections DON’T! - 01/28/12 12:22 PM
Kitchens Sell.  Refrigerator Magnet Collections DON’T!Kitchens sell. There’s no doubt about it. Buyers scrutinize the kitchen. Why?  Well, it’s the heart of the home not to mention usually the most expensive area in a house to renovate.
Buyers usually do not want to buy a home that needs extensive kitchen work as that will require lots of moolah after the closing.
Offer a much lower price?  Many buyers don’t want to bother with gutting a kitchen.So, presenting the kitchen in the best light is definitely to the seller’s advantage.Here are some no cost/low cost tips for improving the appearance … (15 comments)

Protect Your House and Family With Working Smoke Alarms and Chimney Sweeps - 01/27/12 11:40 AM
 
Protect Your House and Family With Working Smoke Alarms and Chimney Sweeps
 
We have just had WAY too much tragedy in the Connecticut-New York area recently with deaths due to lack of smoke alarms and non-functioning alarms.  Fire alarms have also increased locally due to improper chimney maintenance.

***This post is a reminder to ALL homeowners to make sure smoke alarms are installed in EVERY room where occupants are sleeping and that proper care is taken to keep fireplace chimneys clean.***

Here are some smoke alarm guidelines:
 -- Replace if older than 10 years
 -- Place alarms  
… (4 comments)

Shelton CT Students Invent the Smart Sticker ~ Your Online Vote is Needed! - 01/23/12 05:30 PM
 
Shelton CT Students Invent the Smart Sticker ~ Your Vote is Needed!
 
Power outages and spoiled food after the hurricane and snowstorms that hit CT last fall were the inspiration behind the award winning ‘Smart Sticker’ invented by students in the Shelton CT Public Schools.
 
Team members:
Raj Ganjikunta
Victoria O’Malley
Keyur Shah
Arivand Ravishankar
Sejal Bhargava
David Dzujna and
Joseph Niski
from Shelton Intermediate School and Perry Hill School have entered their “Smart Sticker” innovative idea into the  Global Innovations Solutions Competition. 
 
They need your vote as part of the selection process … (13 comments)

Why Communication is Critical If You're Behind In Your Mortgage - 01/21/12 07:57 PM
 
Why Communication is Critical If You're Behind In Your Mortgage  
You’re behind in your mortgage or you know it is going to happen very shortly. You don’t have any idea how you can pay it. You don’t even want to think about it. You try to put it out of your mind, but it just won’t go away.  You don’t want to talk to anyone about it, BUT communication is critical to creating a positive outcome.  
Take your head out of the sand and talk it over with your spouse or any other party who is responsible for … (16 comments)

Stratford CT Single Family Market Report and Real Estate- December 2011 - 01/20/12 10:29 PM
Stratford CT Single Family Market Report and Real Estate- December 2011

Stratford CT December 2011 single family home sales ended up the year 12% higher than the previous month and overall fairly steady the last four months.

 
 
A year-to-year comparison shows list and sales prices decreased 6% and 5% respectively.  The median was down 18% and days on the market stayed flat at 2%.  Nice to see the supply of homes is statistically creeping into a SELLER'S market. 
However, keep in mind that some sellers have postponed listing their homes around the holidays and are waiting until … (9 comments)

Shelton CT Kindergarten Registration Begins January 23, 2012 - 01/18/12 08:26 PM
 
Shelton CT Kindergarten Registration Begins January 23, 2012

Kindergarten registration for the 2012-2013  Shelton CT public school year begins on Monday, January 23 through Friday, January 27. Where do you register your little ones? At your current home school… Booth Hill, Elizabeth Shelton, Long Hill, Mohegan, or Sunnyside between 9:30 a.m. and noon or 12:30 – 3 p.m.How old must your child be?Children must be five years old on or before January 1, 2013. What do you need to register for kindergarten in the Shelton CT public schools? Two forms of verification of local residency.  Accepted documents are: … (6 comments)

Monroe CT Single Family Market Report - December 2011 - Monroe CT Real Estate - 01/17/12 12:18 PM
Monroe CT Single Family Market Report - December 2011 - Monroe CT Real Estate

Monroe CT December 2011 single family home sales stayed the same from November, AND are UP 33% from the same period last year.  

 
 
A year-to-year comparison shows list and sales prices decreased 17% and 18% respectively.  The median was down 18% and days on the market went up 62%. 
Anything behind those numbers to account for the drop in averages?   As usual....yes.   December 2010 had only 9 sales and the two top sales came in at $650K and $690K. The … (5 comments)

Avoid Foreclosure with a Short Sale in Fairfield County CT - 01/15/12 11:08 PM
Avoid Foreclosure with a Short Sale in Fairfield County CT
If you have been missing monthly mortgage payments or even if you have not, but it is likely you will due to a hardship, you should consider a short sale. I had a client about a year ago who told me he was just going to let the bank take his house and foreclose. After assessing his situation and advising and educating him on the short sale process, he went through with the process and successfully closed on his house….and he could not be happier he didn’t take the foreclosure … (6 comments)

Trumbull CT Single Family Real Estate Market Report for December 2011 - 01/14/12 11:22 PM
Trumbull CT Single Family Real Estate Market Report for December 2011
 
Trumbull CT single family home sales for December 2011 were UP 22% over December 2010.  List and selling prices decreased 22% and 20% respectively with the median being down to a more realistic 6%. 
The December 2010 averages were brought up considerably by a significant outlier at $1.2 million. The high sale in 2011 was $681,500. 
So the list and selling averages were slightly inflated in 2010 which brought about a greater disparity in the year-to-year comparison.
 
   
 Days on the market went DOWN 34% -- … (7 comments)

Radon – The Silent Killer -- Don't Be a Statistic - 01/13/12 03:46 PM
 
Radon –  The Silent Killer -- Don't Be a Statistic
 I hope that got your attention. As attention getting as it is, though, it is not sensationalizing … it is true.
 
Radon is an issue that all homeowners and home buyers need to be aware of.  You can’t see it. You can’t smell it. Out of sight? Out of mind?  Maybe.  But it shouldn’t be.

Radon is the leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers.  21,000 deaths in the U.S. and 100,000 deaths worldwide are linked to the gas each year.  In the United States, radon … (10 comments)

Shelton CT Single Family Market Report - December 2011 - Shelton CT Real Estate - 01/08/12 09:15 PM
Shelton CT Single Family Market Report - December 2011 - Shelton CT Real Estate
 
GREAT news!  The Shelton CT single family market report for December 2011, which includes Huntington and White Hills, ended UP the year with significant increases as compared to the same period last year.
Sales were UP 17%.
Average list and selling prices were both UP 19%
The median home price was UP 32%
Days on the market stayed flat at a 1% decrease.
The market absorption also took a healthy decline.
 

 
In keeping with all my market reports, let's analyze a bit because … (14 comments)

5 Tips for Selling Your Home in the Winter - 01/01/12 08:15 PM
5 Tips for Selling Your Home in the Winter Selling your home in the winter in a colder climate like CT does not give you the opportunity to ‘green’ up the lawn or plant colorful flowers. The grass might be brown, and the trees are bare.  Even so, you can still make the house look and feel appealing to the cold-weather buyer. A few days ago I drove by a listed house.  It was on a corner and had no trees, so there was a clear view of the back of the property. Leaves were still on the ground, a fence … (25 comments)

 

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