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Minneapolis In The Middle Of Cities Dependent On Real Estate

August 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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Minneapolis/St. Paul comes in right about the median for cities economies that became heavily dependent on real estate and construction. (h/t) Jeff Allen

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Sunday Mashup

August 30, 2009 By 2 Comments

Haven’t done this in a few weeks, but it returns with some interesting links real estate related that I have collected over the past week: Yeah, I’d live in this house. Bankruptcy filings and mortgage delinquencies over at Calculated Risk that spreads the data out state by state. Minnesota had just over 5600 bankos in [...]

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Rally Round The Cage

August 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Alright, I’ll bite on the good news and rally ’round the cage like so many do when it comes to the barrage of ‘good’ news for the housing industry. Including but not limited to: home sales up and new home housing starts surprise increase. One major metric was released in the past week and that [...]

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Still Loans Left In The Minneapolis Advantage Program

August 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Grab you share of $10,000 loan that is the Minneapolis Advantage Program which was created to help home buyers purchase foreclosed bank owned property. As of last check, there are currently 50 home loans still available under the program. The program originally had set aside funds for 200 loans in areas of the cities where [...]

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Real Estate Auction Wanders Back Into Minneapolis

August 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Oh it’s back, another lender owned home auction that is returning to Minneapolis with a date of Saturday September 19th. I think this makes 3 within the past twelve calendar months if I’m not mistaken. The auction is to be done by Real Estate Disposition which has that all to familiar television infomercial. After reports [...]

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$1 Homes In St. Paul

August 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Homes on the cheap in St. Pauls Dayton Bluff area. From the Pioneer Press: The city’s Housing and Redevelopment Authority is sponsoring open houses this week for 11 properties in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood with asking prices that range from $50,000 all the way down to $1. Not a bad deal if you don’t mind [...]

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New iPhone Apps: Real Estate Related

August 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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These things just keep on coming out as more and more companies try to corner the mobile market when it comes to the consumer searching for real estate data. So far some hit and some are miss. Coldwell Banker iPhone App Not a bad app for the iphone but falls short right off the bat [...]

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Spirit of Brandtjen Farms In Lakeville

August 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

This is truly a unique community that started back in 2006 in Lakeville that is similar to Cobblestone Lake in Apple Valley which both are built by the same developer. The original farm was run by Mr Brandtjen himself who first farmed on it back in the 30′s. The land sold in the early 2000′s [...]

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First Half 2009: Sheriff’s Sale Data On Foreclosures

August 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Below is a report put together by the Minnesota Home Ownership Center using sheriff’s sale data in the first half of 2009. MNHOC Foreclosures in Minnesota 1st Half 2009 The big takeaway, during the first half of the year there were 11,089 foreclosures compared to 13,591 in 2008 during the same period. With those numbers, [...]

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Homestead Village in Eagan

August 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Located in Eagan along Highway 3 (Robert Street) in very southwest corner, Homestead Village is Manley Homes neighborhood. The development is visible from the highway and tucked back amongst some commercial buildings and trees. The development mainly consists of upper bracket, arts and crafts style homes. Prices range from 400′s and up. Brandl Anderson is [...]

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