I had written before about the Burnsville Performing Arts Center and some of the controversies surrounding its funding and initial difficulties in getting ramped up. Since that was almost a year ago it seemed like a good chance to go back and revisit what’s been happening there since. I wanted to see if they are doing a better job of booking shows and taking advantage of ...
The City of Eagan will be home to the upcoming South Metro 55+ Senior Expo on Tuesday October 12th from 1-4pm. The event is titled “Living and Loving the Senior Life” and will be held at the Eagan Community Center at 1501 Central Parkway. It is free to attend!
Some of the features include:
Area companies & professionals will be on hand to discuss resources and opportunities ...
This coming weekend will feature Holz Farm Lone Oak Days in Eagan. The event runs from 11am – 4pm on both Saturday September 25th and Sunday September 26th at Holz Farm in southeast Eagan (4665 Manor Drive). It features a large list of family friendly activities and entertainment. Entrance to the event is free but there are small charges for many of the activities and paid ...
The Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors released their Weekly Market Activity Report for the week ending September 20th. Once again, the Twin Cities housing market is seeing weekly activity more than 35% slower than this time a year ago. The last week of data always lags by a week so it looks particularly slow since it includes Labor Day.
Here’s what the Association ...
The Cobblestone Lake Development is located on the east end of Apple Valley, MN. It consists of 323 acres and may eventually be home to as many as 2000 homeowners as well as a commercial area. In addition, the planned development means that there are many amenities like trails, parks, swimming and 36 acre lake right in the middle. Cobblestone Lake is laid out with a “traditional” ...
On September 1, 2010, Northstar MLS started to offer rental properties into the Multiple Listing Service tool. This means that Twin Cities Realtors now have the ability to assist both renters find properties and landlords looking to find tenants by using the power of MLS to deliver information. Reasons why this change were made were outlined by Northstar MLS –
With the ...
As a Realtor I frequently use the Dakota County Real Estate Inquiry website to look up information about properties in the County. It can give me information about tax values, home & lot size, current ownership and previous sales. While logging into the system today I found a new link to the Dakota County Property Information tool and found a really useful tool that many consumers ...
The Twin Cities real estate market has been difficult the past 5 years and statistics show that there are now approximately 20% fewer Realtors than there were during the up market. That still leaves 15,000+ agents out there to choose from so a question that comes up often is “What should someone ask when interviewing a Realtor?” Home sellers are entrusting a large financial ...
While I sell all over the Twin Cities and focus on Dakota County, I have a special affinity for Rosemount since I live there. Recent sales data keeps coming in to discuss the rotten state of the housing market but it might be more instructive to give specific data for a city like Rosemount. Therefore, I decided to look at home sales statistics year to date through August.
Rosemount, ...
The media has been full of stories recently about both the Twin Cities and national housing markets. Almost all of them have painted a bleak picture of what’s happening in real estate as sales are down significantly and the inventory of homes available continues higher.
For example, the Minneapolis Association of Realtors published their weekly Market Activity Report yesterday which ...