Batting 1,000 Dear Twin Cities home owner: if you want to sell your home, I know a secret weapon: have Edina Realty agent (and colleague) Kathy Dick show it — or host a Broker open there. Due to previous commitments, Kathy has now hosted two Broker opens for me in the last six weeks — at...Read More
You Read it Here First In the course of helping clients find a rental property the last 2 weeks, it’s become abundantly clear that the rental market is much more fragmented and chaotic than the For Sale market. And pricing is much sloppier (what you get for, say, $2,500/mth runs the gamut from properties worth...Read More
“Funny, I Didn’t See Him at the Meeting” Politico’s know that a Congressman who never actually delivered a speech in the Senate or House chambers can nevertheless have their remarks “written into the record,” or transcript, of that body’s deliberations. Real estate has something similar. After each local real estate office holds its weekly Tuesday...Read More
Define, “On Tour” Readers will recall my post last Tuesday lamenting (kind of) the dwindling number of free lunches at Broker open houses (“No More Free Lunch — Really“). As I noted then, Tuesday tour is when Realtors view, often by “caravan,” all the new listings on the market. By convention, the time window is...Read More
“Auction Today”? Not Exactly I spent a good chunk of today’s broker tour going through a 90 unit condo project in St. Louis Park. (If you didn’t know, Realtors spend a part of each Tuesday looking at all the new properties on the market, in a ritual called “Broker Tour.”) The condo complex caught my...Read More
