Want to buy a waterfront home in Connecticut? Join the crowd Alexander Soule FacebookTwitterEmail A Compo Beach home under construction in May 2021 in Westport, Conn. Waterfront homes have ebbed in the spring of 2021, due to heavy demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.Alexander Soule/Hearst Connecticut Media Connecticut homeowners flooded the real estate market with waterfront homes last year, but the market for those properties has tightened considerably in 2021. In the past six months, roughly 1,500 homes have sold in Connecticut that sellers describe as including waterfront — about 840 fewer than between May and October of 2020 — according to Zillow data analyzed by Hearst Connecticut Media.