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Estimated Home Values According to CoreLogic, or, “Throwing Darts By Any Other Name”

  Estimates So Broad You Could Drive a Truck Through Them [Editor’s Note: The views expressed here are solely those of Ross Kaplan, and do not represent Edina Realty, Berkshire Hathaway, or any other entity referenced.] RealAVM:  $859,828 RealAVM Range:  $662,068 to $1,057,588 Confidence Score:  66 Forecast Standard Deviation:  23 –Excerpt, MLS If you only...
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Why Listing Agents Discount Buyer Feedback, Especially at Sunday Opens

The Best Adjective for “Home”?  “Sold!” What do you call an Edina rambler that — at least according to my open house traffic the other weekend — was “too big,” “too small,” “too open,” “not open enough,” “too dated,” “too expensive” . . . and about 10 more fussy comments in a similar vein? Give up? Try, “Sold!” “Too, Too ....
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Barnes & Noble’s $50 Coupon Come-On

“Coupon Caveats,” or, When the Sum of the Parts < The Whole [Editor’s Note:  The views expressed here are solely those of Ross Kaplan, and do not represent Edina Realty, Berkshire Hathaway, or any other entity referenced.] There may be valid reasons to buy an annual Barnes & Noble membership for $25. But, the promised $50...
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The New York Times’ “What You Get” Feature: Misleading Real Estate Statistics

Mixing Apples and Oranges Are real estate prices in rural South Dakota and Mississippi really twice as much as in Dallas? That’s the takeaway, at least superficially, from a NYT piece profiling homes in South Dakota, Mississippi, and Dallas that are all now on the market for around $800k. Prices Per Square Foot; “A Creek...
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