Twin Cities Real Estate Blog

With the extremely cold weather we are having right now, many homeowners complain about wet or frosted over windows.  A little frost at the bottom of windows is to be expected – when that frost is very thick or covers a large part of the window, your windows are telling you that the house has too [...]

I wanted to show you just a sampling of the bad photos I see online each day but since they are the property of the agent that took them, I would need to call and ask them for permission.  Could you imagine that call?
Uh hi, my name is Aaron Dickinson and I am blogging about [...]

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Houses for sale in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area have been dropping since May of this year; a sharp contrast to prior years where inventory stayed high until September.  New listings are down versus the same time last year and sales are so far ahead that inventory is dropping quickly.  [...]

The typical seasonal slowdown of activity in the Twin Cities housing market has begun in recent weeks, demonstrating how even unprecedented housing stimulus coupled with ridiculously low interest rates and housing prices down dramatically from 2006 cannot beat Mother Nature.
This Winter is likely to remain far more active than last year’s but this activity is [...]

The Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors has a fantastic assortment of stats that are published on weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly cycles.  These reports are based off the listing data provided by our local MLS, the Regional MLS of Minnesota.
As anyone who works with data knows, the statistics you create are only as good as [...]

Fellow local blogger and awesome mortgage broker Alex Stenback has a great post explaining how few people are being helped by the Marking Home Affordable program, which has only helped 93,000 borrowers so far when original estimates suggested up to 7 million could be helped.
If we could do more successful loan modifications and short sales [...]

CNBC has a great article on some new housing numbers that I think sums up what we’ve been seeing in the Twin Cities lately.  I believe the views by J.P. Morgan and Raymond James are both spot-on!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/32569620
It is nice to see a little renewed interest in new construction lately… I have seen several developments with [...]