BANGOR – U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in June will move a couple of blocks from her home on Clyde Street to a new house that has more room for her visiting family, including her parents from Caribou.

“My family from Aroostook County visit a lot and this will give them more space,” Collins said Wednesday.

Collins declined to provide the location of the new home for privacy reasons, but said she is glad to be living near the same neighbors.

“I just love living in Bangor and I really enjoy Little City,” she said, referring to the area in Bangor in which she lives.

Collins has lived in her home on Clyde Street since 1995, one year after she won a Republican primary nomination for the governor’s office before losing the general election in the fall. She was re-elected in November 2003 to her second term in office, the same year her current home was burglarized of $2,000 in personal property.

The new home will provide a “fresh start,” Collins said. She had hoped to move to a new home in August, when she spends less time in Washington, D.C., rather than during the planned move-in weekend of June 12.

The Clyde Street property, which was on the real estate market for only four days, sold in April and attracted several offers, the senator said. Collins said she decided to move after a friend told her a great new house was for sale in her neighborhood.

“When you find the perfect house, you have to move,” Collins said.