Sunday Mashup

Linkage from the past week, real estate related: With all the athletes moving teams so often these days, it seems there are a lot of them that are just renting them out while they bounce around the United States until there playing days are over. Many have also said they will never own again until [...]

A Head Start For Buyers Against Investors

How many Twin Cities home buyers have been disappointed because they can’t compete with local real estate investors on buying properties? Beaten out by that all cash deal or better structured offer on paper? I know a lot of buyers that I have worked with over the past year have found themselves coming up short [...]

Yeah, Go To The Listing Agent

Don’t Bounce The Earnest Money

or at least try not to, it probably won’t work for backing out of a contract as much as you think it might.

Holy Crap 92,500 Homeowners Facing Foreclosure In Minnesota

If foreclosures where a city in Minnesota, it would be in the top 5 for largest. From Kara McGuire at Star Trib: Loans in the process of foreclosure rose in the state and the nation from July through September of this year. Minnesota ranks 39th in the number of delinquencies but 15th in foreclosures started. [...]

Sunday Mashup

Linkage to feed your need from the past week: Yeah, I’d live in it. Check it, the former home of the Detroit Lions, the Silverdome sells for a measly $583k. I’m sure there are 500+ homes in the Twin Cities metro area with a price tag higher than a stadium. A few days ago I [...]

Minneapolis Real Estate Market Values By Way Of Zillow

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Zillow makes data fun for once. Interactive data graphs for the geeks in all of us. Here are Minneapolis home values: Another one looking at % sold for a loss: Play around with the interactive graphs here for a deeper look into the neighborhood level.

Search Google Real Estate Pages For Twin Cities Real Estate

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Google has been slowly getting into the real estate search game for little while. A few weeks back they announced they jumped into the mortgage marketplace by comparing mortgage rates and today just opened the doors a little wider into their ‘real estate pages’. I ran a simple search for ‘Minneapolis Homes For Sale‘ on [...]

Looks Like Much Of The Same For 2010

I had gotten asked a question the other day from some real estate investors about where I thought foreclosures where heading and oddly enough these articles came across my feed reader today echoing my thoughts. As the tax credit hype comes to an end, it had a good solid month of promotion from the mainstreet [...]

Video: Steeplechase In Eagan

Steeplechase is a luxury neighborhood in Eagan built by Toll Brothers. It is located in Dakota County off of Pilot Knob on the former Diamond T Ranch land. The neighborhood features a variety of home plans including single family and town homes. Home prices start out in the $500′s and go upwards over $1 million.