Lake Harriet Stunner Buying a gallon of milk isn’t an emotional experience (unless, perhaps, you shop at Whole Foods). Buying a home is. I can’t think of anything more emotional (or dramatic) than a beautiful home photographed at dusk, like the one above just off Minneapolis’ Lake Harriet. I’m showing it to clients later today...Read More
Highlights of the 2010 Lake Harriet ArtCar Parade Highlight #1: the couch that turned out to be motorized (and served as the parade’s pacesetter, er, vehicle). Highlight #2 (more like relief): finding out that the oblong shape covered with a white sheet with dancing people inside was supposed to be a zeppelin — vs., say,...Read More
Exactly Where Are All Those $206k New Homes?? As [new home] sales rose, median prices . . . continued to fall, slipping to $206,200 from $232,100 in June a year ago. –Jack Healy, “New U.S. Home Sales Rise Sharply as Prices Fall“; The New York Times (7/27/09) The big financial headline today is an unexpected...Read More