Beacon Communities Begins Construction on Avon Village in Avon Connecticut

Beacon Communities has officially begun construction on Avon Village, the second phase of a multi-phase redevelopment that is turning a long-underutilized office park at 20 Security Drive in Avon, CT, into a residential community. The adaptive reuse project will convert a vacant office building into 76 affordable apartments, building on the momentum of The Homes at Avon Park, a 100-unit mixed-income development currently under construction on the same site.

A Vacant Office, a Late Vote, and Farmington's Version of the State Housing Law

FARMINGTON — For years, the house-turned-office at 1422 Farmington Avenue has sat mostly empty. Jeff Bernetich ran an Allstate office there starting in 2014, moved it to East Windsor, found a tenant, then lost the tenant to the pandemic. On Sept. 14, Farmington's Town Plan and Zoning Commission let him turn the building into a two-family home, with no public hearing, under a state housing law the town had not yet written into its own rules.

5 Estate Recovery Rules That Can Cost a Connecticut Family Their Parents’ House

Connecticut lets a Medicaid applicant keep up to $1,130,000 in home equity this year, the highest ceiling the federal formula allows a state to set. But none of that protects the house after someone’s parent dies, and the rules that decide what happens then start at 55. These are...

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.