CT Real Estate Radio

CT Real Estate Radio is a Connecticut housing show with the pace of commercial talk radio, and its episodes carry 94.9 News Now station bumpers to match. Byron Lazine, a real estate team lead with the One Team, runs the docket. Brian Skelly handles the mortgage side, and in one excerpt he is set up to report how low the 30-year fixed rate got. Chas Cook of the One Team rejoins the table on some recent broadcasts, after what Byron Lazine jokes was a flood of letters, calls and texts asking for his return. The structure is dependable. Something national comes first: a GDP read, a batch of inflation reports, an FOMC meeting, a tariff decision, or a Middle East ceasefire that Byron Lazine says might be on or might be off. Then the conversation turns local and gets specific. One excerpt lines up March figures for pending sales and new single-family listings against the prior year and against 2019, when new listings were more than double this year's count. The conclusion drawn is that sellers have rarely held more March leverage in the past 15 years. Rates tie all of it together. The panel cites a realtor.com projection of about 6.3 percent for the year, calls mid-fives unlikely any time soon, and describes inflation fear tied to oil prices as a boogeyman that never quite leaves the room. Episode titles such as 'Mortgage Rates Just Dropped Under 6%: Is This The Spring Market Signal?' and 'Did Connecticut Buyers Miss The Cheapest Window Of 2026?' look at rate timing from more than one side. The advice tends to be blunt. In the episode titled 'Realtor.com Reveals The Best Week To List Your Home in 2026', the recommendation is to spend a slice of a home's gains on cleaners, painters, stagers and movers now rather than drift into August, with small towns like Old Saybrook and Branford used to show how few competing listings a seller might face. Byron Lazine also warns against taking housing headlines from CNN Business, Fox Business or CNBC as a guide to Connecticut, a market he calls the complete opposite of the national one. He says this on a Fox News affiliate, with a joke about hoping Fox does not strike him down. The local lens reaches past housing to Electric Boat and General Dynamics hiring in New London County, and to a closing aside blaming a shorter construction season and high state regulation for slow building. There is room for looser moments too, such as snow-shoveling jokes about a good year for chiropractors and a promised run through PMI myths from Brian Skelly. Sign-offs follow their own ritual, with thanks to Haley and Drew and a recurring 'Martin, I love you'. The show is openly promotional, with plugs for the One Team's listing record and for booking time with the mortgage side. So the advice comes from people who work in the market they describe, and that is exactly why it gets so specific. For anyone weighing a move in Connecticut, the show translates national rate news into local listings, prices and leverage.