Where: 2641 Kipling So. (St. Louis Park’s Fern Hill Neighborhood) What: 3 BR/2BA; 1,678 FSF List Price: $165,000 On Market: 2/4/09 Time to sell: 2 days (*estimated) Tax assessed value: $392,000 [Reader’s note: for related posts, see, “Multiple Offers and $40k Over Asking” and “Fern Hill Flip] Even in a soft market, a starter home...Read More
Lender-Mediated Sales Swallow the Market[Note: the following dialogue, between local mortgage broker Alex Stenback and me, encapsulates a much bigger debate going on within real estate right now: how much do foreclosures and short sales “pull down” traditional sales?] “When “lender mediations” are 60% of the market, it’s getting tougher to say “just ignore that...Read More
