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Hartford area house prices at 2004 levels — and falling

This is an updated version of an earlier report.

Home prices within the Hartford metro area have fallen to April 2004 levels and will continue easing over the coming year, a new realty survey shows. Haddam, Suffield and West Hartford home prices climbed above 5 percent.

Zillow.com’s latest nationwide pricing survey released Tuesday found third-quarter Hartford area median house prices dropped 1.6 percent to $208,000 – the lowest in more than eight years — from the July-September period a year ago,

The online realty valuator projects Hartford area house prices will shed another 1.5 percent between now and September 2013.

Houses within Hartford’s city limits sustained the largest one-year price collapse among the more than five dozen Connecticut cities, towns and neighborhoods Zillow.com surveyed.

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Hartford’s prices declined 16.5 percent in the past year, Hartford metro house prices fell 1 percent from the second to third quarters of this year

New Britain houses slid 1.4 percent in the third quarter, to a median $130,400 as of Sept. 30, Zillow.com said.

Haddam’s homes rose 5.3 percent, to $274,600 — the best price-performance on the latest quarterly Zillow.com Value Index.

West Hartford’s and Suffield’s prices each rose 5.1 percent. West Hartford homes climbed to a median $282,500, while Suffield’s rose to $262,900.

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