After years of reluctance, some Connecticut towns are slowly coming around to the idea of building more affordable housing, said panelists yesterday at a discussion hosted by the Connecticut Mortgage Bankers Association.
For the average agent, the intersection of real estate and the creative arts is usually a matter of coming up with the perfect – or sometime just the most judicious – adjective for their listing description. But there\’s one area of home selling where aesthetics and sales really do combine: the art of staging.
Grandi jumped into the mortgage industry just before the boom, helping to grow his own correspondent firm into a 200-plus employee, 17-office firm before the crash convinced him and his partners to wind down. Now he’s helping to establish the first New England outpost of Chicago-based bank Wintrust. They just opened their first office, in Needham, Mass. last July – but they’re already looking south.
An affiliate of Bridgeport-based Navarino Capital Management has acquired a four-building apartment portfolio in New Haven and West Haven for $14.2 million.
Governor Dannel P. Malloy joined state and local officials at the train station in Old Saybrook Thursday to highlight transit-oriented development (TOD) initiatives in the surrounding area.
Declining non-interest expenses and an increase in mortgage banking income boosted SBT Bancorp’s bottom line during the first quarter this year.
Carey Buckley has seen all sides of the mortgage business in her twenty-odd year career – but it\’s the private mortgage insurance (PMI) world that\’s won her loyalty, with her having returned to that side of the business to take up a senior position with Radian Guaranty after several years as a correspondent lender. She tells The Commercial Record what drew her back.
A consortium of brokers and multiple listing services, including Connecticut’s largest MLS, Connecticut MLS, have come together to help launch a national public portal for real estate listings.
Elizabeth Torres is intimately aware of the opportunities access to affordable housing can create – after all, she grew up in it. A former high school dropout from a tough neighborhood, Torres worked her way up from the reception desk to the executive director’s office, helping to build the part-time, mostly volunteer-run community development corporation she now heads into a multi-million-dollar operation that is taking the lead in developing three Bridgeport neighborhoods.
Real estate agents and appraisers are facing off in the state capital as brokers push forward a law that would allow them to compete directly with appraisers in certain circumstances when it comes to evaluating homes.
There\’s lots of ways to be carbon-neutral these days – and with the advent of 3D tours, some think that even real estate may be ready for a technology that cuts down on travel times.
A legend in Connecticut banking circles, Bill McCue took has taken the mortgage firm his father founded after World War II and turned it into one of the largest independent mortgage lenders in the state of Connecticut. He spoke with The Commercial Record about getting his start as a lender and his hopes and plans for improving the state of the Connecticut housing market.
Connecticut is slowly waking up to the depths of its affordable housing problem, panelists at a discussion sponsored by the Connecticut Mortgage Bankers Association said today.
The strong end to 2014 is giving many local lenders and agents hope that something might be on the horizon that the Connecticut market hasn’t seen in years: A normal spring market.
One lousy experience with a real estate agent may have been the spur that got Candace Adams into the industry, but it’s been her own drive and ambition that have carried her to the top. Recently named one of the top 200 most powerful people in the industry in the Swanepoel Power200 rankings, she spoke to The Commercial Record about what she looks for in an agent.
