What do you like most about your home?
What do you like most about your home?
One Room At A Time
Figuring out how to increase the value of your home can be a daunting task. Many homeowners become overwhelmed at the thought of updating various areas in their house. Simplify things and focus on one room at a time. Tips to increase your home's value If you're on a tight budget, make a [...]
Landscaping Tips That Can Help Sell Your Home
Effective landscaping can help sell your home. Use these 10 tips to increase your home's curb appeal and find out how an attractive and well-maintained landscape can add as much as 10 percent to its value. Potential home buyers form their first impression of a home from its curb appeal. Yet often a [...]
Where is the New Construction?
New Construction in MN If you have driven toward the Minneapolis area in the last few months, you will see that homes are being built everywhere. Chaska, Carver, Chanhassen, Waconia, etc. are booming with new construction. So, why isn’t there any new construction going on in Hutchinson? With about 300 residential lots ready [...]
More Than 250 Years’ Experience
Hometown Realty in Hutchinson, MN has earned the reputation in the Hutchinson area as a real estate company that is knowledgeable, professional, honest, reliable and able to “get the job done.” We take the confidence that buyers and sellers place in our company seriously. The professional staff at Hometown Realty in Hutchinson, MN [...]
Only In A Small Town
I’ve written before about how much living in a small town means to me. During a recent heavy snowfall, I met my dad and step mom for dinner at one of the locally owned restaurants in Hutchinson. The snowfall was heavy throughout the evening and when we were done, we walked out to the parking [...]
A For Sale Sign Is Not Enough
Hometown Realty - Hutchinson, MN real estate experts Some people think that if you put a for sale sign in the yard, buyers will appear. Well, it’s not quite that easy. With the Minnesota real estate market as challenging as it has been for the past several years, we at Hometown Realty in [...]
Good News About Foreclosed Property
We at Hometown Realty in Hutchinson, MN have seen a dramatic drop in the sale of distressed property in McLeod County. Distressed property means foreclosures and short sales. As you can see by the graphs below, traditional home sales have risen 17.1%. Foreclosed homes have dropped 27.8% and short sales have dropped 16.7%.
Multiple Home Purchase Offers
Multiple home offers are back in Hutchinson, MN and McLeod County It’s been quite a few years since multiple offers have been a factor in the housing market, but I am pleased to report that they are back! Many of the homes that have been sold in the last few months have had [...]
Passing Title to Children
Passing life estate title to children Many people as they age decide to put the title to their homes into their children’s names. Usually there is a life estate retained by the parents. I’ve written before about some of the pitfalls that may not be considered at the time decisions like this are [...]