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This past Tuesday John Engel hosted a lively discussion on changes in the New York residential market and its immediate impact on the suburban market, particularly the Gold Coast of Connecticut. We learned from chief economist Greg Heym when New York might bounce back. Darien’s 1st Selectman Jayme Stevenson responded with yet another tax cut.  Scott […]

Feeling blorft? For less than the price of a New York studio apartment facing a brick wall you could have 5 acres of beautiful property with two houses and a dock on a nearly deserted island in Florida.

       16 Individual Town Reports. To download full reports click on the town names.         Or go to the bottom of the page. This month we looked at total dollar volume as an indicator of market health. Three towns stand out posting solid dollar volume numbers: Darien, Old Greenwich and Rowayton. The rest of […]

I praised the Advertiser coffees as the place where a town comes together. In June I took a break from this weekly fret over New Canaan’s short-term concerns. In June we graduate, marry, retire, reflect and recharge.  In 1914, at 73 years old, Claude Monet had established himself among the greatest artists of all time. […]

       16 Individual Town Reports. To download full reports click on the links at the bottom of the email. This is the 6 month report for Fairfield County. Good news: interest rates at record lows, 3% Bad news: there is little urgency among buyers  Good news: budget skips tolls & regionalization Bad news: state budget […]

Editor, It’s caucus time again and as George Orwell once said “there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics…All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” (He was probably thinking of the Town Council when he wrote that.) Fortunately for New Canaan the […]

The Connecticut First Half 2019 Market Reports are now available in Pilot. You can find the template in the Promo Blast section, called “CT First Half 2019 Market Reports“. If you type “CT” in the search bar it will appear among the CT template selections.  Just a reminder, quarterly reports include an additional page for each town’s absorption rates for houses, and a page on absorption […]

New Canaan was just named one of the “15 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2019” by Smithsonian magazine. Every year their editors search the entire country for places that sing to our imaginations and offer a distinct sense of place. New Canaan is now recognized as the best of small town America. That’s some […]

Chairman’s View: Honing our zoning MAY 23, 2019 BY NEW CANAAN TOWN COUNCIL CHAIRMAN JOHN ENGEL In 1982, New Canaan matriarch Mabel Lamb is quoted in The New York Times as saying, “There are two reasons why people want to live in New Canaan — zoning and schools.” We talk a good deal about schools, but zoning […]