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Chairman’s View: The Best Small Town in America (New Canaan Advertiser June 13, 2019)

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 (New Canaan Advertiser May 23, 2019)

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 […]

Halstead’s Engel is year’s ‘Realtor Citizen’ for service to Town (Dec. 26, 2018)

Halstead’s Engel is year’s ‘Realtor Citizen’ for service to Town DECEMBER 26, 2018 BY NEW CANAAN ADVERTISER John Engel is this year’s ‘Realtor Citizen’ for his service to the Town of New Canaan. The New Canaan Board of Realtors’ Realtor Citizen of the Year is John Engel, center, with with board President Janis Hennessy, left, and realtor […]

TOWN OF NEW CANAAN PRESS RELEASE TOWN COUNCIL APPROVES FY2020 BUDGET OF $150.94 MILLION — DECREASE OF 0.43% IS THE LOWEST IN LAST 10 YEARS FUNDS TO BE RAISED BY TAXES DECLINES 0.56% — FIRST DECLINE IN MORE THAN 10 YEARS

The Town Council on April 4th approved a Total Expenditure Budget of $150.94 million for fiscal year 2019-20, representing a decrease of 0.43% over the current fiscal year’s amended budget expenditure of $151.58 million. This is the first decline in more than a decade. The funds to be raised by taxation declined to $139.23 million […]

The New Canaan 2018 Revalution:

An Interactive Map of Old and New Property Assessments

Chairman’s View:

Somebody Moved our Cheese

John Engel’s New Canaan Market Report for July 2018, part 1

The number of sales is down 23.8% this year in New Canaan, 96 versus 126 last year. If we go back 3 years we see sales of 100 and 119. In that context 96 is not nearly so alarming.  Zillow calls it a “buyer’s market” saying home values have declined 1.3% in the last year.  […]

VIDEO: Welcome to New Canaan, Connecticut

#HomeIsNewCanaan The new video intended to capture the intangible and ungoogleable characteristics of the town of New Canaan is now public. Click below and watch the three-minute version of #Homeisnewcanaan. Make sure your volume is on and not muted. #Homeisnewcanaan  #workNYCliveNCCT #lifelikeapostcard

Planner envisions new mixed-use building on Elm Street By Greg Reilly, New Canaan Advertiser

Planner envisions new mixed-use building on Elm Street By Greg Reilly on January 29, 2016 in Business News, Latest, Latest News, Lead News, Lead News, News, Real Estate, Town Government · 0 Comments This parking area adjacent to the Unimin office building and across the street from Karl Chevrolet is targeted by the Town planner for new mixed-use commercial building. — Greg Reilly photo Town Planner Steve […]

Gone Again: Midcentury Modern with the Hyperbolic Paraboloid Has Been Rented, Coming off the Market

That’s right, you let the opportunity slip through your fingers once again. The James Evans house of 1960 with its famous Hyperbolic Paraboloid roof has been rented for the next 18 months and is coming off the market later this month. I’ve attached several photos of the house, taken from several different angles and during […]
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