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Golden Valley

New Construction “Before” & “After”

Tear-Downs Spread to Less Expensive Neighborhoods, Busier Streets Literally one day after the Golden Valley home pictured above sold for $77,000 last month ($2k over ask), the new owner listed the to-be-built new construction on MLS (photo, below). Asking price:  $449,900 for 5 BR/4 Baths and almost 2,900 finished square feet. Not a bad bump,...
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Key Twin Cities Housing Statistics: “2.6,” “2.4,” “3.2,” “3.1”

Listing Inventory:  How Many Months’ Supply? It takes a little deciphering, but those four numbers represent how many months of housing supply are currently available in St. Louis Park, Southwest Minneapolis, Golden Valley, and Minnetonka, respectively. The significance? All four of those markets are well below the 4-6 months considered indicative of a “balanced” housing...
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Sunday Open House? Try, “Open Lot”

When It Won’t Work to Put Chocolate Chip Cookies in the Oven Kudos to Edina Realty colleague Eric Schiller, who hosted what was — at least to my knowledge — the first Sunday open house for a vacant lot, at 4032 Wayzata Blvd. in Golden Valley’s South Tyrol neighborhood. Here is Eric’s report: “I had...
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Urban Chicken Coops

The Country in the City When you can buy a dozen eggs at Cub for $1.49, — or two dozen at Sam’s Club for $1.99 — it’s hard to see an economic motive for keeping your own egg-laying hens (garden-variety goldfish seem to pose a challenge for the Kaplan household). I suppose that leaves purity...
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What’s Hot (Besides the Weather)

Days on Market:  1 Offers:  4 Where:  5930 Kenneth Way in Golden Valley. What:  5 BR/3 BR split-level with 2,524 finished square feet on a .38 acre lot;  year built:  1966. How (much):  listed for $325,000 Who:  listing agent — Karla Rose; broker — Edina Realty. When:  on market 7/16 (yesterday). How’s the market? For the...
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Obama Here? Where?!?

“President Obama Made Me Late!”  (Yeah, Right) President Obama’s visit to the Twin Cities this am — apparently, he’s speaking at the Honeywell plant in Golden Valley — is playing havoc with local traffic, at least on the west side of town. And it’s not just Highway 100, which appears to be closed (at least between Highway 7...
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