THIS MONTH’S FEATURED REAL ESTATE ARTICLE

Above: Grassland Dessert Café in Lakeville, CT, renovated the former enclosed porch of a vacant Chinese restaurant to provide extra outdoor seating for enjoying an ice cream cone. Photo by Christine Bates.

Maybe it started during COVID, when it seemed safer to see friends outside and have groceries delivered, or maybe it was the increasing square-foot price of new construction, but porches have become more popular than ever. According to the National Association of Home Builders, 67.5% of new homes include porches, an all-time national high, […]

Above: A complete kitchen renovation was required for this Livingston, NY, house at an estimated cost of $45,000. Photo courtesy of Andrew Gates, Houlihan Lawrence Real Estate

The old real estate saying is that a kitchen and the primary bedroom are the selling features of a house. Of course, that presumes that location, size, price, style, and general condition already have been considered.

“My observation on kitchens is that in showing property, this is one of the first rooms a potential buyer will go to. If it […]

Above: St. Patrick’s Church at the corner of Barton and Church Streets gleams in the sun of early spring. Photo by Anne Day.

Millerton, the smallest village in Dutchess County, NY, with less than 1,000 people, once had four active churches – Methodist, Catholic, Presbyterian, and Baptist. Today only the First Baptist church holds regular Sunday morning services. The Methodists meet only occasionally and host the NECC Farmer’s Market on Saturdays. But demographic changes and three visionaries are reimagining the future of St. Patrick’s […]

Above: The 5,000-square-foot renovated horse barn on Hammertown Road in Salisbury, CT, is on the market for $5,490,000 with 12 acres and additional barns and outbuildings. Photo by Brian Wilcox courtesy of Elyse Harney Real Estate.

In Dutchess County, where large tracts of agricultural land are more available than in neighboring Litchfield County, agricultural “farm” real estate, both agricultural farm land without residences and with farm houses, continues to be both accessible and desirable. In Dutchess County alone 37% of all property is located within […]