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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 […]

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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 Council approves budget

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 […]

Somebody Moved our Cheese

Chairman’s View:

Somebody Moved our Cheese

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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. […]

Open house disappointment

DON'T COME to this open house!

(You’re setting yourself up to be disappointed)

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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

Modern Architecture Tour in New Canaan

  Architect James Evans discussing the Evans House with future architects from Roger Williams University Last week I hosted 3 architects from Aamodt Plumb along with 15 students from Roger Williams University as we took a tour of 4 of New Canaan’s best midcentury Modern houses. We saw the Philip Johnson Boissonas House of 1958 and learned […]

Town Council approves budget

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 […]

Three Really Great Houses

I just love these three new listings.  I’d be proud to call any one of them my forever home. The first, at 227 Lambert Road, is definitely what you’d call a “forever home”  It is a beautiful home on a beautiful flat property beside a picturesque river about a block from the Country Club. Alongside […]

Real Estate Photography and Why it Matters

I’m a pretty good photographer so I ran out in the afternoon and took this shot. I absolutely had to have a picture of this house right away. Problems: – there are no shadows so the house looks particularly flat – can’t have a white sky behind a white house – the green trees look […]

Comparing Two Years of House Sales by Neighborhood in New Canaan

I just crunched the numbers on the last two years of closed listings in New Canaan.  I sorted the list by school zone: East, South and West Fascinating spreadsheet. South East West Original Asking $1,571,742. $1,861,635 $2,350,986. Final Asking $1,543,084. $1,784,402 $2,265,602. Sold Price  $1,489,605. $1,702,498 $2,129,125. Percentage of Orig   94.77% 91.45% 90.56% Avg. […]

Want to Open a Restaurant? New Canaan has Options For Restaurants of All Sizes

Just listed: A profitable little restaurant on Elm for $295,000.  To get more information about exactly how profitable this restaurant is you’ll have to sign a confidentiality statement (I did) but if you are looking for a restaurant location and you can do it in 1200 feet then this might be the ticket. For more […]

This 1891 Colonial is Smack Dab in the Middle of Town

And it’s even prettier on the inside than outside.  This house is opposite the beautiful old red brick St. Aloysius Church and the lovely tudor they call “the Math House”. Sited back from the road, this house enjoys tranquility and peace not usually found in the downtown. Many of us imagine ourselves one day downsizing […]

New Canaan Property Values on the Decline?

Nelson Oliveira of The New Canaan News did a story this week on the current revaluation taking place. While he got most of it right and property values are down an average of 2.8%, it is impossible to paint the whole market with one brush.    http://m.newcanaannewsonline.com/default/article/New-Canaan-property-values-on-the-decline-5214576.php   Of note, they quoted me saying:    […]

Who Would Ever Want to Live in a Glass House?

#NewCanaan   Rented. As of today this iconic midcentury modern masterpiece designed by James Evans in 1960 is once again OFF the market. Tune in again this time next year, 2015, if you absolutely have to live in a #glasshouse  and you have $1,700,000 to spend on the privilege. Listed by +John Engel  and Susan Engel at Barbara Cleary’s […]

Engel Has Ear to the Ground

Editor, Advertiser, I am writing this letter in support of John Engel for Selectman. John is a person who’s involved himself in the town of New Canaan for many years. By way of example, he’s a regular at the New Canaan Advertiser coffees; but what’s important for voters to know is that he’s attended the […]

Engel Thinks Without Bias

I am a realtor in town, active in the Republican party, a Saxe mom, and a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals. It is in that context that I urge you to vote for John Engel for Selectman. Anyone who has been to a Zoning Board of Appeals meeting knows that John comes prepared, […]

Engel: Integrity and Perseverence

Editor, Advertiser, I was John Engel’s roommate in college and best man at his wedding. Two words sum John up: integrity and perseverance. I saw John confronted with issues that might compromise his integrity. Each time he did the right thing. Faced with choosing dubious, short-term gain versus doing what’s right, John always chose what’s […]

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