Your Guide to Buying a Home in Hartford, CT

Buying a Home in Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is located in Hartford County

Located in central Connecticut, MetroHartford is a region of 33 distinct towns scattered throughout the valley that lies east and west of the Connecticut River. Here, quaint historic villages, comfortable bedroom communities and bustling suburban centers are just a short drive from flourishing farms and woodlands famous for their annual show of autumn color.

Hartford, which is Connecticut's state capital, is at the heart of this multi-faceted region.

The city's landscape is punctuated by grassy parks, tree-shaded walkways and scenic Connecticut River vistas that beckon you to get out and explore this unique city, which has been Southern New England's economic, cultural and social center for more than three centuries.

Poised to move easily into the 21st Century, the city of Hartford continues the process of revitalization begun in the mid-1970s. Since that time, the city's skyline has changed dramatically with the addition of multi-storied buildings that reach for the sky from Hartford's revitalized commercial district. At the same time, the rich architectural heritage of the past survives in buildings preserved and adapted to keep their place among the modern concrete and steel giants.

For good reason Hartford is known as the center of the nation's insurance industry. Many of the largest insurance companies in the nation are headquartered in Connecticut's capital city, where the presence of the industry dates back to the country's earliest days.

Today several of the most powerful corporations in the United States have a Hartford address. Here, too, are manufacturing firms carrying on the legacy left by early entrepreneurs such as Samuel Colt. Designer of "the gun that won the West," Colt established a company that is one of many precision manufacturing firms in the MetroHartford region.