Since early this year, the Twin Cities housing market has been making strong gains towards a level of what I call "peak inventory." What I'm describing as peak inventory is the point where we see the number of houses for sale today at a level lower than last year. Well, we officially hit that in the weekly market report dated 5/5/2008 and are continuing that trend the last two weeks as well. What does this mean? There's approximately 600 fewer homes for sale today than there was a year ago and if current trends … [Read more...]
Re-listing Homes: Not Unethical
In February, a local real estate agent did an interview for Nightline and came off very badly. What his intent is to refresh the property so that the buyer gives it another consideration. He is correct that when buyers see that a home has been for sale for a long time, they immediately think something is wrong with it. However, counting simply days on market does not take into account these things that might have affected its previous ability to sell: Time of year - homes sell slower in the winter … [Read more...]