The Joseph Cafasso Team brokered by EXP Realty

08/09/2025

Fuel your dreams

08/07/2025

The Joseph Cafasso Team is proud to annouce it has changed brokerages to mygoodagent. Located in Branford, CT, mygoodagent is one of the fastest growing brokerages in CT. It also is licensed in 6 other states for all of your residential real estate needs!

07/30/2025

It's time that you've looked at mygoodagent, because everyone else is looking at it. Join a brokerage that encourages you to . If you want to know what I made the move, send me a DM and we'll chat' ®

07/15/2025

Today’s Connecticut homebuyers aren’t just “looking.”
They’re:
✔️ Relocating for work
✔️ Fleeing NYC rent hikes
✔️ Chasing school districts
✔️ Prioritizing space over square footage

They’re also paying over asking just to win the house.............
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07/10/2025

📈 Connecticut home prices are still going UP.
Median sale price: $460,000
Up nearly 10% year-over-year.

Don’t let the headlines fool you — demand is high, and inventory is tight.
If you’re waiting for prices to crash… you’re probably just going to miss out.
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07/09/2025

07/08/2025

This was a really special closing for a repeat client of mine. He reached out last summer and was looking to cash in on some equity of his current home and wanted to buy a new home that had some upside potential (basically flip a house that he would live in).

He wasn't able to buy before he sold, so we knew buying a home that was contingent on his sale would be difficult.

We put things on hold and actually started his search late fall.... but nothing clicked. The search (and sale) was put on hold for this winter and started again this Spring. We put several offers in but nothing went together. His home was on the market and getting offers and going into a short term rental started to look like reality.

Finally, we noticed this home. For the contition it seemed a little over priced, but we went to look anyway. We ended up getting it under contract for under list price, still contingent on the sale of his current home.

3 days before the movers showed up and the closing happened, we got a call from the attorney. The closing had to be delayed due to the seller having a pre-payment penalty on a business loan! My client was pi**ed, how did no one realize this until the week of the closing. My job it's to find homes, it's to solve problems no one else wants to solve. In this case, it was an easy solution.... the sellers, who had already moved out, would HAVE to let me client move in on the scheduduled closing date, but close when the business loan could be paid off. My client's attorney's response "they'll never go for that" My response "just try"

Long story short, my client moved into a house he didn't own and the sellers were happy to make the accomodation. Real Estate doesn't have to be hard. I'm happy to have made this series of transactions work smoothly for my client, who will have a ton of equity in this home after he makes some updates!

07/08/2025

Sometimes you have to know where to hold the line. And that's tough to do when it could mean a roof over your client's head.

One of my clients referred her mom to me a few months back. She was moving from Long Island to CT to be near her daughter. We searched for a while looking for the perfect condo complex. 2 previous offers were made, one we missed out on and the other had some concerns during the inspection.

This condo came on the market but we both agreed that it was priced a little too high for her comfort level. Fast forward a few weeks and the condo had a price reduction. We talked about putting an offer in and then it showed up asking for highest and best... a week later. I'm usually pretty good at reading the situation and to me this meant that there was a low offer that had come in. Aftter all, if it was full price or God forbid over list price, the owner probably wouldn't wait a week.

On a second visit we talked strategy. This is a cash buyer who knew she had a bunch of work to do here, so we formulated a strong offer. I can't disclose the price, but it was something that we felt was pushing the envelope of making sense.

The next day, when the highest and best was due, we found out we missed out... what the heck. Come to find out, a 3rd offer came in and they went all out price wise.

I told my client, you'll get another crack at this. Someone's over paying and they will get cold feet. Sure enough, we're under contract and should move forward with a smooth transaction!

04/24/2025

This was a fun… but very complicated transaction. Here’s what happened:

I have a YouTube channel that focuses on relocation buyers looking to move to CT. In Jan I had a phone consultation with someone who was interviewing at a very prominent non profit. He wasn’t sure if he was taking the position yet, but wanted to be knowledgeable about the area if he did accept the job.

He reached back out in Feb and said he was coming to town for a final interview and wanted me to show his wife the area so they could get a sense for where they wanted to move. Feb 28th I took Kate on a 3 hr tour of New Haven County. The next day I took Louis and Kate on a tour of 6 homes so they could get a sense for homes and pricing. They knew if they did accept the job the rest of the process was going to be done virtually.

March 3rd came the job offer and the clock ticking as they needed to be in New Haven by May 1st. If that wasn’t enough stress, I included the text message that Louis sent to me on March 8th… check out the picture. So here’s the magic I was able to work in this transaction. I would like to think it was all skill, a lot of it was, but a lot was also dumb luck along with having an incredible listing agent on the other side who was able to keep things moving while working with elderly clients who lived out of state!

✅ find a home that was under budget and needed updating

✅ accurately film it for a virtual showing pointing out all of the flaws so the clients knew what they were buying

✅ negotiate a contract without being in a bidding war war 🎉🥳🙏🙌🙏

✅ do a home inspection virtually

✅ negotiate over 15k in repairs and credits. More in comments.