Twin Cities Real Estate Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Today I am pleased to announce the release of the Foreclosures and Short Sales in the Twin Cities Housing Market: Q4 2008 Update.  This is the 4th installment of quarterly reporting of lender mediated sales and their impact in the [...]

Every day there is a new article on the housing crisis and every day there’s a new offered solution.  Since everyone else is doing it, I figured it’s time for me to throw my idea into the ring:
My Idea:
The U.S. Government should set up another Government Sponsored Enterprise (GSE) charged with providing liquidity and stability [...]

Star Tribune has a good article on a co-op that is in financial distress and the potential fallout.
While there are few co-ops in town so this is a limited issue, the issue of unsold units in association communities is a far larger one.  If you buy/have bought in to an association-run development (condo/townhouse) and many [...]

The last 6-8 weeks have been busy and while the real estate market isn’t what it used to be, it is still keeping me plenty busy.  In addition, I’m busy working with Jeff Allen to release a 2nd Quarter edition of our Twin Cities foreclosure/short sale report.  Lender mediated sales will be with us for [...]

So the reason I moderate blog comments prior to posting is because some people are not very polite and write things that are inappropriate. I’m not talking about dissension, I’m talking about things that just shouldn’t be said on a public forum. I have no problem with people who want to sound like [...]

MAAR has released their new market stats for the month of May and I’m trying a new idea: I’ve added commentary to the report expressing what I believe are the important “take aways” from the data.  I would love to get feedback both on the concept and your thoughts of my opinion.
Minneapolis/St. Paul Real Estate [...]

I’ve posted some photos to Flickr of the latest hail storm that came through on Saturday, May 31, 2008:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27215653@N05/sets/72157605363818571/