According to the Minneapolis Association of Realtors, the local housing market continues to mimic spring growth, as Twin Citizens emerge from their wintry cocoons just in time for the final days of the home buyer tax credit. For the week ending March 20, there were 2,277 new listings, up 28.8 percent from a year ago [...]
Here are some interesting statistics recently published in "The Residential Specialist" magazine. (Their source for the information was Harris Interactive.) This magazine is available to all real estate agents who have earned their Certified Residential Specialist certification through the National Association of Realtors. Several of Hometown Realty agents in Hutchinson, MN have earned this CRS [...]
Minneapolis, Minnesota (March 10, 2010) – For the second consecutive month, home prices in the Twin Cities 13-county metropolitan area showed a year-over-year increase. We haven't seen back-to-back year-over-year increases since 2006. The February median sales price of $159,000 was a 6.0 percent increase from last February's mark of $150,000. That's the strongest year-over-year increase [...]
Many homeowners have been able to take advantage of the loan modifications that some of the lenders are doing on mortgages that either are in trouble or may soon be. We at Hometown Realty here in Hutchinson, MN have clients who have been able to work out modifications with their lenders to lower their monthly [...]
I just came from the Hutchinson Home Landscape and Garden show that is being held at the McLeod County Fairgrounds here in Hutchinson, MN. The show ends at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 21, 2010. It was encouraging to visit with all the people who came to the show this year. Almost everyone that I [...]
The new rules — which are temporary and take effect this summer — come after more than a year of stringent standards from lenders. Among them: •Better Credit Score — New borrowers will have to have a minimum credit score of 580 to qualify for a 3.5 percent down payment. Previously, there was no minimum [...]
According to the National Association of Realtors "Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers 2009", 90 percent of buyers used the Internet as an information source in their home search, up 30 percentage points during the past six years. First-time buyers were even more likely to use the internet. Also reported was that 47% of recent [...]
The first full week of reporting for the 2010 Twin Cities housing market is in and while there are a few "green shoots," it's becoming apparent so far that the market won't see the same spectacular growth in sales it saw at the beginning of 2009. There were 520 pending sales for the week ending [...]
Recently one of our clients in Hutchinson, MN had an experience with one of the "big" mortgage companies that I want to share with you. They decided to sell the home they currently live in and buy a larger home. They went to the mortgage company and made loan application based on them selling their [...]
As we anticipated, the Spring Real Estate market seems to have arrived early this year here in Hutchinson, MN. Despite the extra cold weather, buyers and sellers are anxious to get moving. We expected this based on the fact that both the First-Time Homebuyers' Tax Credit and the other Homebuyers' Tax Credit require that buyers [...]
