Eleventh(!) Straight Year on the List It’s out: the 2018 list of “Super Real Estate Agents.” Jointly compiled by Mpls. St. Paul magazine, Twin Cities Business, and Crescendo Business Services, the annual list identifies the top 5% of the Twin Cities real estate agent population. Their selection process: “Tens of thousands of home buyers who...Read More
Housing Market Finance, Then & Now “If you don’t have a job — or are afraid of losing one — it doesn’t matter how low interest rates are.” –Ross Kaplan Long before there was a housing bubble (seemingly, 3 lifetimes ago), there was a credit bubble. As a result, seemingly anyone who could complete a...Read More
Nesting Instinct It’s not just would-be Buyers who are tirelessly searching for a home this Fall, before the arrival of colder temps and harsher weather. So are critters (and insects, if that’s a separate category). The list includes bees, wasps, mice, squirrels, & raccoons (a few years ago in the Twin Cities, it was even...Read More
Is it Halloween Yet? I’m a big fan of dramatically lit homes. And with the seasonal change, we’re heading into ever-shorter Fall days. And yet, the technique doesn’t work all the time ” and can even backfire: especially for smaller homes, interior lighting at night can produce an (unhelpful) “Jack-o-Lantern effect.” The (kind of) scientific...Read More
Surprisingly Spacious 6 Bedroom(!) Home with > 4,000 Square Feet Where: 4709 40th Lane, St. Louis Park. What: Modified two-story with 6 Bedrooms and 4 Full Baths; total finished square feet = 4,068. When: open house this Sunday (October 21) from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. How much: $700k. Who: listed by Ross Kaplan, Edina Realty — City...Read More
“DOM” vs. “CDOM” vs. “PDOM” Unbeknownst to non-Realtors, there are not one but THREE different ways to count the number of days a given “For Sale” home has been the market. According to the Multiple Listing Service (“MLS”), they are: One. Days on Market (“DOM”): the number of days the current listing has been on the...Read More
