http://www.minneapolis-metro-realty.com Updates and Insight on Minneapolis Metro Real Estate, Culture and Entertainment Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:27:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My new website is now up and running. This blog will rarely be posted to and is now winding down. My new site also has a blog built into it. As this blog has been, my new website will be primarily for the real estate/homes market of Southwest/Lakes area of ... http://www.minneapolis-metro-realty.com/2009/06/01/new-real-estate-and-homes-website-for-edina-and-minneapolis/ Our local market in Minneapolis and Edina, and the Twin Cities metro is typically a very cyclical market. We usually see a large slowdown between the months of November and the first week of February. Then, as winter usually does to people, they start to become anxious (cabin fever?) and ... http://www.minneapolis-metro-realty.com/2009/02/03/226/ Over the past 4 months I was asked by Edelman Productions to be 'the Realtor' for an episode of an HGTV show called 'Sweat Equity.' A young, gutsy fella named Jed Hirschfeld (the bearded-one) was the renovator. He bought a condominium in the Southwest Minneapolis/St. Louis Park/Edina area and decided ... http://www.minneapolis-metro-realty.com/2009/01/11/minneapolis-realtor-zeb-haney-films-episode-for-hgtvs-sweat-equity/ The Minneapolis metro real estate market is an interesting market. If one is listening to all of the press, one is under the impression the sky is still falling unilaterally in our local housing market. Such is not always the case. If you subtract from the equation the suburban (2nd and ... http://www.minneapolis-metro-realty.com/2008/12/17/minneapolis-and-edina-real-estate-market/ I have just listed a beautiful home in the Ecco Neighborhood of Lake Calhoun. The address is 3554 Humboldt Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55408. This home is being offered at $659,000. It will be on the market 12/03/2008. This home has been entirely updated inside and out. The craftsmanship is stunning. It is ... http://www.minneapolis-metro-realty.com/2008/11/26/just-listed-minneapolis-lake-calhoun-tudor-offered-at-659000/ Here is a good, short article from the Wall Street Journal. Yesterday morning one of my lenders called to inform me that mortgage rates were expected to drop all the way down to 5.25%, by 10:15AM. About 2 hours later, he was proven correct. The amount that rates dropped in a ... http://www.minneapolis-metro-realty.com/2008/11/26/fed-sets-off-a-rush-to-refinance-excellent-time-for-minneapolis-real-estate/