Salsa Fresca closes in Avon after opening in 2024, assets listed for sale

The fast-casual eatery's assets are listed for sale for $295,000 and includes a fully equipped commercial kitchen and dining room, the listing says.

The Underrated Town In Connecticut That’s So Affordable, It’s A Retiree’s Dream Come True

Nobody puts Torrington, Connecticut on a vision board, and that is exactly why it keeps winning. This is the town that quietly does everything right while the rest of the state is busy being expensive and exhausting. Time to start with the thing that nobody in Connecticut likes to talk...

A Charming 1830s Farmhouse in Connecticut

Photographer and brand strategist Taylor Swaim shares her 1830s Greek Revival farmhouse in Litchfield County, Connecticut, filled with a mix of antiques, family heirlooms, and artwork. A Charming 1830s Farmhouse in Connecticut. Photographer and brand strategist Taylor Swaim welcomes us inside her 200-year-old Greek Revival farmhouse in Litchfield County, Connecticut.

Former Macy's in Waterbury mall could be converted to self-storage business

The current owners of the Macy's, Sami and Nazeeh Abunasra, bought the nearly 162,000 square-foot space in 2023 for $3.3 million.

Undoing the Devastation of ‘Urban Renewal’ in New Haven

At some point in the 1980s, following three decades of planned destruction, the term “urban renewal” became a slur, an indictment. Just as the U.S. lost “the war on poverty” over the same period, those 30 years brought very little “renewal” to our cities. The poster child for this destruction, a nationwide effort, was, of course, Robert Moses in New York City. In New Haven, Connecticut, however, a much lesser known planner, Maurice Rotival, may have engineered more damage per capita than occurred in any other city.

230 affordable homes in the pipeline across Litchfield County

SALISBURY — The Litchfield County Center for Housing Opportunity released its 2025 Impact Report on Thursday, Sept. 10, showing that 230 affordable homes are planned or under development across the county. Jocelyn Ayer, director of the center, said 209 of those homes will be rentals and 21 will be...

Ribbon cutting held for new homes on Garden Street in Hartford

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A Hartford ribbon-cutting on Friday celebrated two new homes standing on Garden Street where vacant lots had sat for 25 years. The lots were acquired by the nonprofit Hartford Land Bank (HLB) in 2022. The group works to rehabilitate vacant, abandoned or distressed properties. Not only does this help revitalize local […]

Voices from our community about the housing we need for a healthy, vibrant future

There’s a reason people say, “It takes a village to raise a child.” To thrive, a child needs a safe, stable place to call home. That’s the bedrock for health, dignity, and the chance to build a bright future. What kind of “village” does it take to create these homes?

Developer wants more housing in Enfield MassMutual redevelopment as part of first site plan

An application for a "phase one" site plan bumps the project up to as many as 487 units.

Long abandoned Plainville office building site soon to become housing

A former office building in downtown Plainville that has remained vacant for nearly 25 years will become home to more than 100 Connecticut families. The state recently provided the town a $541,000 grant to continue remediation on the former White Oak property site. The work includes demolishing the existing building,...

Unionville's Historic District Argued About Window Heat Loss.

FARMINGTON — "People are not going to live in homes that they can't heat." A commissioner said that out loud at the Unionville Historic District and Properties Commission on September 3, and nobody in the room disagreed. That is roughly the whole problem with running a historic district in a state with Connecticut winters, and the commission spent a good part of the evening walking around it.

Ahead of prime buying weeks, Connecticut home sellers still aren't budging on price cuts

As of Monday morning, Zillow listed about 6,800 homes for sale in Connecticut, not including lots of land where buyers could build.

Mortgage rates surge to 7.22% as rising costs impact Connecticut housing market

Six months later: How RBCRs are changing real estate transactions - by Louis Muratore

In February 2026, I wrote about Connecticut’s transition from the Connecticut Property Transfer Program (CPTP) to the Release-Based Cleanup Regulations (RBCRs), a landmark regulatory shift that fundamentally changed how environmental investigation and remediation obligations are triggered. Now, more than six months after implementation, Connecticut’s real estate, development, and environmental...

Move To This Adorable Connecticut Town And Live Your Best Retired Life On Under $1,600 A Month

Nobody moves to the middle of Connecticut on accident, but the retirees who end up in Meriden tend to stay there very much on purpose. Meriden, Connecticut is one of those cities that doesn’t bother trying to impress you right away, and somehow that ends up being exactly what makes it so impressive.

The real estate agent behind ‘Hartford is the new Miami’

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Meet the real estate agent who came up with the saying that is going viral. On This Week in Connecticut, Dennis House talks with Vasilios Tsipouras. Watch the interview above.

Whose doing what, going where, why, or why not - by Thomas House

With the New England housing market going up, down, sideways in a game of chutes and ladders, we thought it a good idea to put down the foggy crystal ball and play chutes and ladders instead. Whose doing what, going where, why, or why not. The easy part is plotting...

Local graduate Ramirez earns 2026 Viking Construction Scholarship

Hartford, CT Hartford resident Genesis Ramirez has been awarded the 2026 Viking Construction scholarship. Ramierz, a 2022 graduate of Connecticut River Academy, will use her scholarship to complete her bachelor’s degree in construction management from Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). Genesis has earned Dean’s List recognition every semester at...

Basements, Barns and Bargains: How to shop Berkshire tag and estate sales

One of the pleasures of living in the Berkshires is that on any given Saturday morning, you can walk into a house you’ve driven past for years and discover everything from a $30 suede jacket to 20 cutting boards, three generations of Christmas decorations, and a perfectly good garden shovel.