Twice this week I have had buyers preparing to write an offer on a home they had seen in the last few days and we find out that an offer was just accepted. In both cases we knew these houses were awesome values the second we stepped in to them. Yup, the Spring Market is quickly coming upon us and that means more buyers going after those few choice properties.While it is next to impossible for us to sell as many homes in the next few months as we did this time last year (when the tax credit was just about to … [Read more...]
Twin Cities Buyer Activity Still Down 40% Vs. Last Year
October 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Twin Cities home buyer activity is still substantially lagging last year at this time. For the last 5 consecutive months we've seen home showing activity down approximately 40% versus the same time last year. Twin Cities Showing Activity How well do showing appointments correlate with sales? Very, very, very well. Since showings happen before offers (usually!), they provide us a little bit of a leading indicator into future sales activity. Pending homes sales have been down about 40% each week since … [Read more...]
Twin Cities July 17 2010 Storm Photos/Video
July 17, 2010 by 1 Comment
I took a few photos of the weather after the storms had passed. I will hopefully be adding to this list in the next day or two. These photos were not retouched. (more photos on the post page) … [Read more...]
A Perfect Minnesota Sunset
September 15, 2009 by 1 Comment
I was driving home last night and saw one of the best sunsets I've seen in a long time. Luckily I had my SLR in the car and was able to stop at Medicine Lake in Plymouth and took close to 200 pictures. Below is my favorite shot of the night. In fact, this is a total of 16 camera positions with 3 exposures each, for a total of 48 images that were blended and stiched together into an HDR image. I will update this post with a few other photos as I have time to process them but couldn't wait to show this one to … [Read more...]
