A 1930 Cape Cod on Quaker Lane — For Sale in Quaker Hill, CT

Quaker Hill · Waterford, Connecticut

A 1930 Cape Cod on Quaker Lane

Nearly a century of good bones, quiet streets, and Southeastern Connecticut’s shoreline just down the road — 16 Quaker Lane is offered for sale.

Brokers’ Open House

Saturday, September 5  •  11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

16 Quaker Lane, Quaker Hill (Waterford), CT 06375

16 Quaker Lane, Quaker Hill

Some houses announce themselves; a Cape Cod settles in. Built in 1930, 16 Quaker Lane belongs to the generation of New England homes that were made to be lived in first and admired second — a steep roof to shed the winter, a compact footprint that heats sensibly, and rooms arranged around the practical rhythms of daily life. Nearly a hundred years on, that logic still…

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Seaport Community Calendar Issue 15: Into the Harvest — Fairs, Fleets & the First Weekends of Fall

Seaport Community Calendar · Issue 15

Into the Harvest: Fairs, Fleets & the First Weekends of Fall

September is the shoreline's second season. The beaches are quieter, the harbors are busier, and the calendar turns from summer concerts to country fairs, boat shows, harvest festivals and a few genuinely new traditions — including a drone show over the Thames River. This issue runs from Labor Day weekend through the first weekend of October, from New London and Mystic to the Connecticut River Valley, across South County, and onto Aquidneck Island.

Where the Calendar Takes Us This Issue

The Community Calendar covers New London County and Middlesex County in Connecticut, along with…

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The Multifamily Brief: Submarines, Statutes & a Thousand New Doors — CT & RI's 2026 Apartment Market

Town Meeting Minute · Special Edition · August 2026

The Multifamily Brief: Submarines, Statutes & a Thousand New Doors

Everything moving the multifamily market in New London, Middlesex, Washington, and Newport Counties — the demand engine, the capital, the pipeline, and the two statehouses rewriting the rules.

There are markets where multifamily is a spreadsheet exercise. Southeastern Connecticut and southern Rhode Island are not one of them. Here, the story writes itself in steel: one employer planning 8,000 hires in a single year, a $76.6 billion Navy award, and a housing stock that was never built to absorb it. Layer on the most consequential rewrite of land-use law either state has seen in a generation, and you get the rare moment…

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own Meeting Minute Issue #14: Decision Season — The Verdicts Are Starting to Land

Town Meeting Minute • Issue #14

Decision Season: The Verdicts Are Starting to Land

For months we have tracked towns writing frameworks, drafting plans, and scheduling hearings. Now the region is entering decision season. Stonington's ten-year plan goes back to public hearing August 18. Waterford is weighing whether to adopt its own rezoning of the former airport property. Groton just denied a follow-up amendment. Tiverton set a September special meeting on its most contested commercial project. What towns decide over the next thirty days will echo through land value for the next decade.

Issue #13 was about municipal control — towns taking…

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Community Calendar Issue 14: Late Summer & Early Fall Events Across Coastal CT & RI

Seaport Community Calendar · Issue 14

The Last Stretch of Summer & the First Signs of Fall

Summer is not finished yet. August and early September bring some of the shoreline's best reasons to get outside — county fairs, waterfront music, art, theatre, river cruises, road races, cultural festivals, polo, food, boats, and community traditions. This issue takes us from Mystic and Groton to Essex and East Haddam, across South County, and onto Aquidneck Island as one season slowly begins to give way to the next.

Summer Isn't Over Yet

The Community Calendar covers New London County and Middlesex County in Connecticut, along with Washington County and Newport County in Rhode Island — a…

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Town Meeting Minute • Issue #13: Towns Are Taking Control of the Housing Conversation

Town Meeting Minute • Issue #13

Towns Are Taking Control of the Housing Conversation

Across New London County, Middlesex County, Washington County, and Newport County, the next real estate story is not just private development pressure. It is how municipalities are rewriting, refining, adopting, resisting, and redirecting the rules that determine what can actually be built.

Real estate value is shaped long before a listing hits the market. It changes when a town initiates its own zoning map amendment, when a follow-up text amendment appears, when a POCD moves to public hearing, when subdivision regulations are rewritten, when housing-growth…

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What a Home Actually Costs to Own in CT & RI: 208 Towns Compared

2026 Property Tax Report · Connecticut

The list price tells you what a home costs to buy. It says nothing about what it costs to own — and in 2026, that second number is where Connecticut buyers get surprised. The same home, one town line apart, can carry a tax bill that differs by well over a thousand dollars a month.

The number most buyers never check

Everyone shopping for a home watches the price. Far fewer ask the question that actually sets the monthly payment: what’s the property tax? In Connecticut, the answer comes from the town’s mill rate — the dollars…

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Rhode Island 50% Rule: RIGL 23-27.3-106 Explained

Rhode Island · Renovation Limits

Rhode Island’s 50% Rule Applies to Every Building in the State

Not just homes on the water. It’s written into state law, it runs on a fixed twelve-month clock, and it has three tiers — not one line.

Most people first hear about the 50% rule in a flood context — renovate a house past a certain point and the whole structure has to be brought up to current flood standards. That version is real, and it comes from the federal flood insurance program.

Rhode Island has its own, and it is broader. It sits in the state building code rather than in a local flood ordinance, which means it reaches a farmhouse in Hopkinton the same…

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Connecticut 50% Rule: Substantial Improvement Explained

Connecticut · Flood Zone Renovations

The 50% Rule Isn’t One Rule. That’s Why So Many Renovations Go Sideways.

Three separate rules share the same number. Almost nobody separates them — and in Connecticut, the one that decides your project is written by your town, not the state.

A few days ago a group of us got into it over the 50% rule — the one that says you can only renovate a house in a flood zone so far before the whole building has to come up to current code. Everyone in the room knew the rule. Everyone in the room had a different version of it.

That’s not a knowledge problem. It’s that three separate rules share the same number, and almost nobody…

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Town Meeting Minute Issue #12: The Rules Are Starting to Move in Southeastern Connecticut

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The Rules Are Starting to Move

Over the past two weeks, Southeastern Connecticut towns have moved from planning language into real regulatory consequences: Groton approved a major open-space development framework, Waterford rejected a large housing rezoning request, Stonington advanced its POCD review, East Lyme continued housing-growth implementation, Norwich processed incremental infill, and Ledyard studied whether its land-use governance structure needs to change.

Real estate value is often shaped before a property ever hits the market. It changes when a text amendment passes, when a rezoning fails, when a subdivision hearing is scheduled, when a POCD moves to public review, or when a town…

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