Madison Featured In New York Times Pandemic Real Estate Story

MADISON, CT — "Neither too hip, nor too boring," is how the New York Times says buyers characterized Madison as it and nearby shoreline towns "were suddenly swarming with buyers newly freed to work at home, away from city centers," as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

In its story published Wednesday, the Times quoted Madison's William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty agent Margaret Muir who said, “Sadly, it was a pandemic that turned the thin market around."

A couple from Brooklyn, NY who purchased a $764,000 four-bedroom Cape on an acre overlooking the Neck River was quoted as saying, "It’s neither too hip, nor too boring. It was an emotional decision to leave the city — we loved our co-op and our neighbors and the diversity. That was the one reservation about moving here: It’s a very white town.”

Read the full story from The New York Times here.