203243 Resource 125794 125888 125888 1210157582920 1210157634218 Controlled Connecticut Real Estate Facts

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<img alt="Connecticut Real Estate" hspace="5" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2118/2472707850_926f6fe014_m.jpg" align="left" vspace="2" border="0" /> Connecticut's January foreclosure rate ranked 8th highest among the states.In March, <a id="c3wu0" href="http://www.ctreal.com/" goog_docs_charindex="155">www.CTReal.com</a> was launched by the Connecticut Statewide Multiple Listing Service. It is the official public search engine of the Connecticut Association of Realtors.There are currently 25 residential listings priced over 5 million dollars through the Connecticut Multiple Listing Service. (The highest priced home to sell this year sold for 11 million dollars in Farmington.)Connecticut law requires that a Realtor® furnish you with a written agreement setting forth all the terms and conditions of the representation between you and the Realtor® prior to showing you a property that is not listed with the Realtor®'s firm.Sales of single-family houses in Connecticut dropped by nearly 30 percent in March, compared with the same month in 2007.Connecticut law requires a person who sells real property to pay a real estate conveyance tax when he conveys the property to the buyer.  The tax has two parts; a state tax and a municipal tax. The state tax rate is either 0.5% or 1% of the sale price, depending on the type of property and how much it sells for, and the town tax rate is either 0.25% or up to a maximum of 0.5% depending on where the property is located. 10 application/xml Connecticut Multiple Listing Service Connecticut Real Estate CTReal.com false Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 ldavis 71.235.20.152 false true false false true 205810 false false true false false false true 125794 blog blogsite/CTRelocation/web