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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.

Seaport Advisory  ·  Southeastern Connecticut & Southern Rhode Island Three rules share the 50% number: federal substantial improvement, RI building code, local zoning nonconformity

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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Connecticut housing market splitting between strong middle market demand and softer upper-end inventory Changing Markets – Issue #8

The Market Isn’t Falling Apart… It’s Pulling Apart

Why Connecticut’s housing market is splitting by price, product type, and future supply

There is a growing disconnect in the housing market.

Some buyers are still competing aggressively for homes. Others are pulling back. Some sellers are still getting strong attention. Others are sitting, adjusting price, and wondering why the energy feels different than it did even a year ago.

So what is actually happening?

The answer is not that the market is simply rising or falling. It is not that everything is strong, and it is not that everything is weak.

It’s splitting.

The closer you get to the core price bands where real household demand…

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