Getting the Jump on Upcoming Listings Near Cedar Lake With housing inventory super-tight generally and near Cedar Lake specifically, lots of would-be Buyers looking in Fern Hill, Lake Forest, and Sunset Gables at the moment are coming up empty-handed (the first two neighborhoods are St. Louis Park, the latter is in Minneapolis). If you’re one...Read More
Same Prices as a Decade Ago (or Longer) Even with the recent carnage, the stock market has more than doubled from its post-2008 Crash lows. Upper bracket housing? Not so much. At least in many choice Twin Cities neighborhoods, luxury homes can be had for the same prices they fetched a decade ago (or even...Read More
Target Market: Baby Boomers Who Want to Age in Place The term “life cycle build” is new, but the concept isn’t: a new construction home that’s versatile enough to accommodate the (invariably Baby Boomer) owner’s various life stages. Typical features include: —Two owner’s suites, one on the main floor and the second on the upper...Read More
What Could Go Wrong? Worry #10: “The Bar Mitzvah Blizzard” “Relax, enjoy everything,” my relatives counseled leading up to my son’s (just-concluded) bar mitzvah weekend. “What could possibly go wrong?” I actually had no fewer than 74 discrete worries, but these were my “Top Ten”: 10. Epic blizzard will shut down local airport; Gramie, Zadie, Grandpa...Read More
“Inventory Alert Notification” Once upon a time, a shoplifter (at least one who was detected) was met with a hail of “Stop! Thief!” With the advent of electronic tags, that changed to alarm bells, flashing lights, or other gaudy displays. Today? At least at Ridgedale the other day, I heard this polite-but-loud announcement over the public...Read More
Back from North Dakota One of the biggest constraints on new construction the last several years has been a shortage of skilled labor. Thanks to the fracking boom, thousands of workers once employed in home construction decamped for greener (blacker?) pastures elsewhere. With the now-accelerating bust in energy prices, that exodus might now reasonably be...Read More
