Zillow has forecasted the hottest housing markets for 2025, highlighting Connecticut's Hartford area as seeing significant growth and popularity.

Zillow has ranked the hottest major housing markets in 2025 and one of the top five is in Connecticut. Hartford came in fourth, up from 15th place in 2024. These are the top 5: Zillow said the ranking takes into account the company’s forecast for local home value growth and how quickly homes are selling.

In this year's ranking, small towns in the Northeast dominated for the second year in a row, including four in Connecticut: Stamford in third place, Bridgeport in fifth place, New Haven in eighth place and Waterbury in ninth place.

Zillow released an analysis this week predicting the nation's hottest housing markets of 2025, where sellers have the greatest advantage. The heat ranking takes local home value growth into account as well as how quickly homes are selling and job growth per new home.

Zillow predicts that the greater Hartford metropolitan area will be Connecticut’s next hottest housing market in 2025, despite the actual city proper being left off a similar 2024 list ...