Monday, January 30, 2017

Thinking of selling
your home?
Join us for
An interactive presentation on
preparing to
get your home ready to list on the
market
What you should do…
What you shouldn’t do…
To stage or not to
stage…
We answer
all your questions so when you
make the
decision to list your home,
you have
a leg up on the competition.
Presented by Dave Fairty from David
L. Bain Real Estate
***Landscaping/Arbor assistance with Luke Soule***
***Interior design & staging recommendations
with Dana Rohn from Montage Millerton***
Friday,
Feb. 3rd 2017 6:30 P.M.
Backcountry Outfitters 5 Bridge St. Kent, CT 860-927-3377
Friday, May 29, 2015
Annie Bananie Ice Cream & Backcountry Outfitters Featured in Unlocking Litchfield!
Bain agent Dave Fairty & his business partner Anne McAndrew
co-owners of Backcountry Outfitters & Annie Bananie Ice Cream in
Kent, are featured in the newest installment of Unlocking Litchfield!
http://unlockinglitchfield.com/2015/05/backcountry-outfitters-annie-bananie/
http://unlockinglitchfield.com/2015/05/backcountry-outfitters-annie-bananie/
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Bain Real Estate has been selected five years in a row for the 2015 Best of Kent Awards for Real Estate Brokers & Agents and now qualifies for the Kent Business Hall of Fame
KENT March 4, 2015 -- Bain Real Estate has been selected for the 2015 Best of Kent Award in the Real Estate Brokers & Agents category by the Kent Award Program.
Each year, the Kent Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Kent area a great place to live, work and play.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2015 Kent Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Kent Award Program and data provided by third parties.
About Kent Award Program
The Kent Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements
and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Kent area.
Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use
their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive
advantages and long-term value.The Kent Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community's contributions to the U.S. economy.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
The Lakes are Frozen!
Here is the annual real estate report detailing the real
estate activity in the last 12 months in and around the Spectacle Lakes .
Set atop one of the highest points in Kent is this
spacious sun-filled house with 50 mile views. 32 Spectacle Ridge Road
is listed for $3,200,000 with Chris Garrity. With lake access to South Spectacle and of course truly great
views, this is a special property. Four private suites provide wonderful comfort while the open floor plan
allows for family fun. The detail, quality and craftsmanship are paramount and a
luxurious horizon line pool feels like swimming on top of the world. See the
video at www.bainrealestate.com.
Chris closed on
23 Davis Road
this month. This cape style home with French provincial touches is bordered
in stone walls on a 2 acre manicured parcel.
There are 3 bedrooms in this 1850 sq. ft. home. The 2 bathrooms are
tiled and employ Toto fixtures. A country kitchen features wood beamed ceiling,
stone fireplace and zinc topped cabinetry. There is a second floor family room
as well as an office, garage and barn. My partner Chris Garrity had this listed
for $660,000 reduced to $625,000 and it sold for $593,895.

Gorham Road offers a 7.75 acre parcel that also
offers peeks of the Catskills. The western sloping property is easy to build on
as it has been cleared for both the house and the view. It is listed for $245,000.
Another incredible view unfolds from the top of 28
Mt. Mauwee Road .
From this 8.581 acre parcel this lot can boast the highest building
site in Kent .
This level lot has a driveway in and utilities to the site. This lot was purchased for $529,900 first
listed at $280,000 and today it is offered for $225,000! David Bain is the listing agent.

David also has Lot 22
on Old Homestead Road listed for $95,000. This 12 acre parcel with an impressive rock
outcropping and mature trees was
purchased for sale in 2004 for $179,000 and offers a wonderful opportunity now.

23 Stone Wall Lane is a private lot consisting of 17.32
acres of woods. The building site is level and is situated near the stream with
its sizeable waterfall and deep pool.
This lot is listed for $175,000.
You’ve likely heard the wonderful news that the former Camp Francis
has been secured and protected by the Kent Land Trust and named the East Kent Hamlet Nature Preserve. This
is an amazing property with Beaman Pond, which is fed by both Spectacles, North
and South, and is the headwaters of the Aspetuck River . David Bain has personally led the trail planning
committee cutting wonderful hiking loops on this 252-plus acre
property. Go try them, they are not too
strenuous.
The 30 sales transactions in Kent in the last 12 months is only
slightly more than last year’s tally of 27.
We are seeing the path back to a more balanced market. There is a small
pool of buyers who are serious and will buy if the right house and value
coincide. There is still more property
supply than buyer demand, but the number of offerings is being slowly chipped
away.
We are seeing a very strong upper end of the market fueled by capital
that is seeking hard assets, like real estate, in which to invest. It is the main reason we are seeing cash
deals for multi-million dollar estates during a time of historically low
interest rates. Typically the upper end
of the market is the trend setter in value recovery as that level of the market
has more capital flexibility and critical evaluation processes.
Incrementally our market values are getting
healthier and one critical indicator is the number of days it takes to sell a
house. 5-6 months is considered the
standard of a “normal” market. The days
it took to sell a house in the last 12 months was 148 days down nearly a month from
last year and two months from 2013.
Another benchmark of the market’s health is the number of available
listings. There are considerably fewer
listings on the market today (45) than last year at this time (58). And there are 3 sales pending. Here is what has been going on in the last 12 months.
Set atop one of the highest points in
There are more properties for sale in the
neighborhood, so if you need assistance on any of them, please give us a call.
We here at Bain Real Estate wish you all the best of 2015 and hope you will let
us know if you need any help in the coming year. We hope you like our blog and will pass this link on to others, thanks. http://heartofkent.blogspot.com/

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