Category Archives: Real Estate Market

Q: How much is your home worth?

A: How much a buyer is willing to pay for it.
There are many different people who are interested in how much your home is worth. When you are purchasing your home, what the seller thinks the home is worth, what the appraiser thinks the home is worth, what your hazard insurance company thinks the home [...]

Interesting: number of Twin Cities housing units by year built

Year Built
Units

2000 or later:
2,819

1995 to 1999:
2,930

1990 to 1994:
1,187

1980 to 1989:
8,605

1970 to 1979:
10,347

1960 to 1969:
14,387

1950 to 1959:
19,544

1940 to 1949:
19,360

1939 or earlier:
89,503

The Twin Cities, a Smart Place to Live

Minneapolis-St. Paul Voted #2 on Kiplinger’s 2006 “50 Smart Places to Live”
In the June 2006 issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine the feature story provided the “50 Smart Places to Live” in the United States. Voted on by readers, cities nationwide were evaluated on predetermined criteria that consisted of:

Take advantage of a buyers market.

Home inventories keep rising, and buyer activity has slowed down because of rising interest rates. Its a great time to buy a house, you have a huge amount of selection in the Twin Cities real estate market, and many owners anxious to sell their house. How do you take advantage of these conditions?