Are homeowners who are in foreclosure or at risk of losing their homes increasingly filing for bankruptcy as a last ditch effort to save their homes?
The Warren Group recently reported that bankruptcy filings in Connecticut jumped 20 percent in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2009. The increase [...]

Has Connecticut’s luxury home market made a permanent comeback, or is the recent uptick just a temporary blip?
Sales of $1 million-plus single-family homes statewide have more than doubled in the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 2009, according to a new report by Commercial Record Staff Writer Colleen Sullivan. [...]

If I built a new house for myself, I know what would automatically be on my wish list: a large, functional kitchen that’s easy to clean and fits my large family during holiday gatherings.
Not surprisingly, that’s what a lot of homebuyers seek. Large kitchens featuring islands tops the list of 10 must-have features in [...]

What’s happening to homeowners who’ve sought a home loan modification through the federal Home Affordable Modification, or HAMP?
More than a third of the 1.24 million trial loan modifications made through May under the program have been canceled, according to federal authorities.
But the federal government claims that borrowers who end up with a canceled loan [...]

The good news: fewer Connecticut homeowners fell behind on their mortgages in the first quarter compared to the prior quarter.
The bad news: the delinquency rate actually climbed from the same period in 2009. That’s according to the Mortgage Banker Association’s most recent delinquency report.
The MBA reported that the delinquency rate for residential mortgage loans [...]

The foreclosure problem won’t be going away anytime soon. Federal officials said this week that more trial home loan modifications offered to struggling homeowners are being canceled.
The U.S. Treasury said 277,640 trial loan modifications were cancelled in April compared to 155,173 in March. Why?
Mortgage servicers are disqualifying borrowers who have not met the [...]

Connecticut’s housing market got a boost in the first quarter, according to new statistics from The Warren Group.
No where was this more evident than in the upscale communities of Darien, Greenwich and Westport – home to affluent businessmen and all sorts of influential VIPs.
In Greenwich, single-family home sales more than tripled in the first three months [...]

A new poll shows that Americans think now is the time to buy a house. 
More than 60 percent of respondents to a Fannie Mae survey said it was a good time to buy.
And judging from the latest housing report from The Warren Group, so do Connecticut residents.  
The Warren Group reported that sales of [...]

If the last two to three months are any indication, Connecticut’s high-end housing market could be in for some significant gains this year.
A total of 300 single-family homes with prices tags of $800,000 and higher traded from December through mid-February, according to The Warren Group. That’s more than double the 141 homes that sold in [...]

New Canaan apparently has a “hot” housing market.
Brokerage firm ZipRealty reported this week that homes in the upscale town sold for an average of 105.5 percent of list price in last year’s fourth quarter.
There were no other Connecticut towns in ZipRealty’s analysis where homes were selling above the list price. 
The median home price in New [...]