Week 93: Their Take, My Take. John Engel’s Real Estate Column for the New Canaan Sentinel
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Week 92: What Manhattan’s Flat Market Means for Connecticut and How I Know. John Engel’s Real Estate Column for the New Canaan Sentinel
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Week 91: *Catfishing in Real Estate. John Engel’s Real Estate Column for the New Canaan Sentinel
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Week 90: How’s The Market? John Engel’s Real Estate Column for the New Canaan Sentinel
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Week 89: Why Houses Sell (or Don’t): The Three Levers That Matter. John Engel’s Real Estate Column for the New Canaan Sentinel
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Week 88: Why We Stay in New Canaan. John Engel’s Real Estate Column for the New Canaan Sentinel
What Hartford Gets Wrong About Housing in New Canaan Check out John Engel’s Podcast, Boroughs & Burbs, the National Real Estate Conversation here. Read this article on the New Canaan Sentinel website here.
Week 87: White Noise: Why We Choose White. John Engel’s Real Estate Column for the New Canaan Sentinel
What Hartford Gets Wrong About Housing in New Canaan White dominates — in cars (27.6%), kitchens (43%), and siding (34%). And in New Canaan, Darien, Westport, Rowayton and Greenwich — where the 2025 median home price is over $2 million — a 0.61% problem, like Zillow’s sale-price loss for white bathrooms, means $12,200. So why […]
Week 86: What Hartford Gets Wrong About Housing in New Canaan. John Engel’s Real Estate Column for the New Canaan Sentinel
What Hartford Gets Wrong About Housing in New Canaan As a Planning & Zoning commissioner, I sit through every application. As a Realtor, I walk clients through the results. That gives me a front-row seat to how housing policy plays out—not in theory, but on the streets of New Canaan. From mixed-use conversions to infill […]
Week 85: New York from Brooklyn Heights. John Engel’s Real Estate Column for the New Canaan Sentinel
“Daddy, tell me a story.” “Ok, it was December 1990 and First Infantry was…” “No daddy, not that kind. I mean one of your real estate stories. With a little economic theory, some obscure historical reference, maybe a personal anecdote. Like the ones you write for the New Canaan Sentinel. And hurry, you have 2 […]
Week 84: A Game of Inches and the Butterfly Effect. John Engel’s Real Estate Column for the New Canaan Sentinel
The phrase “a game of inches” has its roots in sports, particularly football, and has evolved into a metaphor for high-stakes situations where small differences determine success or failure, whether in sports, real estate, leadership or life. The phrase was immortalized by Al Pacino’s electrifying locker room monologue in Any Given Sunday, “You find out that […]
