“Not a Foreclosure! Not a Short Sale!” Sellers don’t usually start out proclaiming what they’re not. But this isn’t a usual market. In some Twin Cities neighborhoods, the normal ratio of “traditional” sales relative to lender-mediated sales (foreclosures, short sales) has inverted. Furthermore, many Buyers have come to associate lender-mediated deals with extra risk and...Read More
“Auction Today”? Not Exactly I spent a good chunk of today’s broker tour going through a 90 unit condo project in St. Louis Park. (If you didn’t know, Realtors spend a part of each Tuesday looking at all the new properties on the market, in a ritual called “Broker Tour.”) The condo complex caught my...Read More
Home Buyer Advice: ‘Forget Short Sales’ Buying foreclosures isn’t always easy, but it isn’t as hard as buying a short sale. A foreclosed home is already owned by the bank. With the short sales only about half of them ever get to the closing. Some end up in foreclosure long before they close even though...Read More
Mpls. Offers Biggest Home Buyer Carrot Yet Starting April 2, the Minneapolis Advantage program will provide $2 million to fund 200 $10,000 deferred loans to buyers of foreclosed homes in certain Minneapolis neighborhoods. The loan is forgiven if the homeowner lives in the house at least five years. Information about the program will be available...Read More
[Editor’s Note: want to see what happend to this house? See, Fern Hill Flip] Where: 2641 Kipling, in St. Louis Park’s Fern Hill neighborhood What: 3 BR/2 BA; 1,678 FSF Asking Price: $165k Sold Price: $205k Days on Market: 3 Closed: 3/9/09 Forty thousand over asking price?? That isn’t supposed to happen in a market...Read More
What’s So Bad About Bad Credit?? For many consumers, preserving one’s credit rating is one of those sacrosanct, preserve-at-all-costs values. But what if you don’t plan to buy anything? Or are afraid to? Or simply can’t afford to? Then, a trashed credit rating really may not matter so much. Especially if it means ditching a...Read More
