Broker Open Today (3/26) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Check Out the Virtual Staging! (Below) Create your dream home on one of Fern Hill’s prettiest blocks. Tackle some projects (Kitchen, windows) and create instant equity at this *price point ($350,000); or, focus on cosmetics & improve gradually (the St. Louis Park city inspection has already...Read More
Killing Three Birds With One Stone Show me a 1940’s Colonial with an undersized garage, and I’ll show you a home with — very likely — too few Bathrooms, a shortage of storage space, a dingy, Basement laundry — and probably a few other, functionally obsolete features as well. Which is why, if you’re going...Read More
New and (Very) Improved: 2712 Joppa in St. Louis Park’s Fern Hill Neighborhood In the, umm . . . spirit of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, I offer up 2712 Joppa, a teardown-in-progress in St. Louis Park’s Fern Hill neighborhood just west of Cedar Lake (runner-up title: ‘A Tale of Two Properties’). This is what the front...Read More
Going . . . Up What do you suppose happens to a one-story home, on a .20 acre lot in a prime location (just north of the Greenway, and equidistant to Lake of the Isles, Lake Calhoun, and Cedar Lake), that’s surrounded by two-story homes? In the case of this just-Pended rambler on Dean Parkway in Minneapolis,...Read More
Love ’em or hate ’em, Tudors always appear rather imposing from the street — and big! Exhibit A would be this stately Sunset Gables Tudor (above) near Minneapolis’ Cedar Lake, whose foundation size weighs in — surprisingly — at a rather modest 1,100 square feet.Read More
Besides the Mississippi, Minneapolis has over 20 lakes and wetlands including Lake Calhoun (this blog’s masthead, above). However, only two have private lakeshore; which ones? A. Lake Calhoun and Lake Harriet B. Cedar Lake and Diamond Lake C. Lake of the Isles and Brownie Lake D. Lake Nokomis and Grass Lake Correct answer: B. This...Read More
