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With an extremely low supply of homes for sale and skyrocketing real estate demand, competition in Connecticut’s housing market is fierce in 2021.

Developers looking at CT suburbs, Shoreline for new apartment projects FacebookTwitterEmail An artist’s rendering of The Bradley, a 30-unit apartment complex that will be built on Bradley Road in Madison, near the town’s commuter rail station and a few blocks from downtown.Contributed photo Much of the focus of residential developers building apartments in Connecticut in recent years has been on the state’s urban centers: Stamford, New Haven and Hartford — cities with restaurants, servi...

July 7, 1866: The East Tennessee Union Flag reported an exhibition would take place at the Fall Branch High School. The event would be on July 13 “if the weather is fair, if not on the following Tuesday. The friends of this Institution and the public generally are respectfully invited to attend.” Z.B. Lockwood was the principal of the Fall Branch High School. The East Tennessee Union Flag was a newspaper published in Jonesborough, which was spelled that way in 1866. July 7, 1887: Acco...

‘Things went gangbusters’: Connecticut housing market soared in second half of 2020 FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInRedditPinterest Homes for sale in the Compo Beach area Thursday December 3, 2020, in Westport, Conn. In a projected sellers market for 2021, few sellers nationally will do better than those in the Greenwich-Bridgeport corridor according to Realtor.com, which is projecting a 7.8 percent increase in home prices amid a continued flight to the suburbs even as vaccines arrive. Photo: E...