Twin Cities Luxury Market stats compared to the National Luxury Home MarketNew data is out for the Twin Cities Luxury Home Market and it looks like the upper tier of homes is inching toward the national average. While it is still a buyer's market, buyer's are beginning to come out of the woodwo
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01/16/2009
A few weeks ago, Forbes came out with their best picks for the Most Expensive Fictional Homes ever written about. That's right, fictional homes that don't exist.Love the historic mansion that Lora Croft owned in Tomb Raider? It could be yours for $46.1 Million, should secret corridors, elaborate
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01/07/2009
When shopping for a new home, especially if you are a new home buyer, it is important for you think about what you want before you buy. One thing I have my clients do before we go house hunting is to sit down and make a list of the things they MUST have in the new home, and the things that would
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01/05/2009
* I orginally featured this home on my luxury blog, last April. Since then, the home even looks worse when you drive by it, which is what I did today. Sparkly winter snow doesn't even help. This weeks featured historic home is located at 475 Summit Avenue in Saint Paul, MN.Why is it that I am al
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01/02/2009
Don't we all wish for the next year to be better than the last? I know I always do...and I make goals, both business and personal, to help keep me on track to having a better year. I think the real estate market will do better than last, though it will still be "sluggish" compared to years past.
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01/01/2009
Wow, it has now been two years that I have been on Active Rain, and a little over two years that I have been blogging in general. Things have changed over this time. I used to write everyday, sometimes staying up past midnight to get my post in. However, the last six months I haven't written mor
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12/21/2008
...the rain gods created auto-save. And all the agents in the land gave much thanks, for no longer would they risk losing their hard written blog to a computer error, or accidental key stroke, and it worked, and it was good. I haven't been around as much on the rain, but it was very nice to see t
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12/10/2008
Let me tell you, working with a bank on a short sale sucks.There, I said it. Whew, I feel better...but I am sure it won't last long. For the past three weeks, I have been trying to keep a deal together with a client of mine. We finally had an offer submitted and quickly sent it off to the bank. U
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12/10/2008
Today I thought we could take a look at what real estate is doing out on Lake Minnetonka. Not that it is any big surprise, but things have slowed down a little in 2008 on the famous lake. High end buyers don't seem to be coming out of the woodwork anymore, either because they already bought a hom
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11/26/2008
Ok guys. It is finally time for the Historic Homes Group to get a photo. For two years I have been looking at a little person silhouette on our page and I just can't stand it anymore! Our great founding father, Rich Schiffer, has given me the special privilege of getting a contest together to fin
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11/14/2008