Here is this weeks Skinny on the Twin Cities real estate market from the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors;
“As we enter the fall season, buyer activity is still on a nice little streak,
posting its sixth consecutive week of double-digit year-over-year
growth in pending sales. During this six-week period, there have been
5,085 purchase agreements signed in the […]

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Here is this weeks Skinny on the Twin Cities real estate market from the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors;
“Like The Godfather II, the Twin Cities housing market showed a surprisingly
strong sequel to last week’s huge upswing in pending sales. For the week
ending September 6, there were 749 purchase agreements written—a rise of
49.8 percent from the […]

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Here is this weeks Skinny on the Twin Cities real estate market from the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors; 
“Like Adam West as Batman, the market for home sales in the Twin Cities went
POW! during the week ending August 30. For the week, there were 965
purchase agreements signed—a whopping increase of 51.3 percent from the
same week last […]

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The Twin Cities real estate market continued it’s delicate balancing act for the week ending June 28. The week showed a slight tilt towards listings, something that hasn’t happened in the Twin Cities for several weeks. There were 2,119 new listings, up 0.3% over the same week last year (2,113). A difference of only 6 listings […]

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There were no fireworks in the Twin Cities real estate market as the week ending June 21st followed the trend of fewer listings and flat buyer activity. At 2061, new listings dropped 10.6% compared to the same week last year (2,308), bringing the total inventory in the Twin Cities metro area down to 33,725, 2.3% […]

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The dust is settling from the long slide that the Twin Cities real estate market has been through, but we have a ways to go before we are safe at home. At first glance the numbers for the past six weeks look great, with new listings way down and […]

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The battle for balance in the Twin Cities Real Estate market continued for the week ending June 7th with both buyers and sellers pulling their punches. Sellers continued the strong trend of not listing their homes for sale, while buyers, whose activity had increased lately, went back to their corner for a rest. The Twin Cities […]

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Twin Cities home owners continue to make the choice to stay rather than sell and they did so in a big way in the week ending May 31st with only 1,752 new listings for the week, down 23% versus the same week one year ago (2,274)! This is the […]

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“The climbing as a whole is not very esthetic or enjoyable; it is merely difficult.”
- Yvon Chouinard -
After 2 years of decline the Twin Cities real estate market has leveled off and is in position to make a long, slow climb back from what has seemed at times to be an unescapable […]

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To be, or not to be–that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them.
 -Hamlet-
The week ending 5-17-2008 saw Twin Cities home owners continue to oppose the slings and arrows of an outrageous market imbalance in the only […]

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