Witch’s Hat & Mini Witch’s Hat Minneapolis’ Prospect Park neighborhood is famously home to “the Witch’s Hat,” an iconic water tower that evokes, well . . . you know. So, what’s the “mini witch’s hat?” A private residence immediately east of The Birchwood Cafe (about 1 mile southwest in Minneapolis’ Seward neighborhood) with a distinctly...Read More
“Three Bedrooms NOT on One Level” Every once in awhile, you see a single family home being touted by the listing agent as a “townhome alternative.” What do they mean? Features At least to this Twin Cities Realtor, it’s shorthand for a detached home with many of the following attributes: –Around 2,000 to 2,500 square...Read More
1 Picture = 1,000 Words Just in case there’s any doubt, the wide-angle shot (above) of this Lake Nokomis home definitively answers the question: “is it a corner lot?” Realtor conventional wisdom is that some Buyers prefer them, because of the extra light (and one less neighbor). Meanwhile, others avoid corner lots, because of the...Read More
Outside Work in Twin Cities Stalled by Rain, Season’s First Snowflakes (Maybe) Today What’s between an old fence and a new fence? Unfortunately for my family’s (temporarily forlorn) Golden Retriever, “no fence.” Stalled at Step #4 It turns out that replacing an old fence consists of these four steps: 1) take down and remove old...Read More
30 Slated for Edina So, where is residential new construction in the Twin Cities booming? Try . . . staid, mature — and now sizzling — Edina. At the moment, the city has issued 30 permits to tear down existing housing and construct new. Land and building costs being what they are, you’d estimate that...Read More
“Honey, I Blew Up the Financial System” Question: What do you call a financial house of cards that’s insured? Answer: an even bigger financial house of cards. Just as portfolio insurance was fingered as a prime culprit in the 1987 stock market crash, another kind of insurance — against credit defaults — is rapidly emerging...Read More
