Town Watch is an ongoing Home Selling Team series highlighting local planning, zoning, and development discussions that may affect property owners across Eastern Connecticut [...]
HST Home Selling Team in Mansfield CT recently completed our annual office ORTBO to recognize and honor our HST agents and staff. The event was held at Hilltop Restaurant in Willington and featured Sacred Rhythms Homestead and Wicked Folked for a joint program of Tarot & Terrariums.
Sales production awards were presented to agents within 3 categories of HST [...]
The Town of Mansfield, CT has completed its 2024 property tax revaluation, and new home assessment notices will be mailed out by March 10, 2025. These updated assessments determine your property taxes, but what if your home’s value has been [...]
Your septic system is in most cases, unseen, unclean, and unloved. Septic repairs and replacements can be a huge expense that buyers and sellers are forced to confront after a septic inspection reveals issues that will need to be negotiated before a sale will take place. If you have city water and sewer you should still observe the [...]
As we kissed 2023 goodbye for it's hellacious buyer's market (inventory at a 28-year low) and an incredibly lucrative year for sellers who could find something to move to, (national median price of $389,900), it's time to reflect on the rollercoaster ride that was the real estate market in the Mansfield-Storrs-UConn, CT area. From soaring [...]
I recently read about a CT homeowner who discovered that a $1.5 million dollar home was being built by a developer on a vacant lot that he owned for 70 years after a forged deed prompted a fraudulent sale. The developer, who claims he was unaware he was not buying the land from the real landowner, may be out hundreds of thousands of [...]
Coming in Hot! How to care for your paved driveway in the summer
I recently had the top part of my driveway replaced in front of the garage and because the remainder was still in excellent condition after 20 years, had an “overlay” over the remainder. Not once in the 12 years I have lived here have I thought about the driveway or [...]
Still searching for that perfect home? Inventory shortages have affected both first-time buyers and move-up buyers. You can't sell if there's nothing to buy! You can't buy if there's nothing for sale! HST Home Selling Team has 5 new listings Coming Soon in Willington, Eastford, Mansfield, Chaplin, & Lebanon and more coming on the market [...]
2022 was an exciting and prosperous year at HST. We worked, we collaborated, we learned, we worked some more. 2021 was a different year: we masked, we gloved, we cleaned, we zoomed, we learned, and worked a lot, sometimes with stressed clients and stressed agents. In 2022, as the COVID pandemic has slowly lessened its stranglehold on [...]
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