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Weekly real estate market update 10/10/25… showing activity even stronger this week

Last week year-over-year showing activity was the highest in five years and this week showings are even stronger… did buyers get the message that October is the best time to...
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What trade-offs today’s buyers are willing to accept

With the steady rise in home prices and affordability concerns the past few years, buyers are showing a growing willingness to accept trade-offs in order to purchase a home. According...
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Why Experts Say Mortgage Rates Should Ease Over the Next Year

You want mortgage rates to fall – and they’ve started to. But is it going to last? And how low will they go? Experts say there’s room for rates to...
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Stonebridge Back Waterfall Wall

Stonebridge Estate remnants… waterfall on hillside deemed too difficult to build on

This year’s Docomomo fall MCM tour included one of my favorite parts of Saint Paul… the steep, wooded slope between Mt. Curve Boulevard and Stonebridge Boulevard on the east end...
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Copycat Canes

Wednesdays Unplugged – copycat Canes chicken tenders and sauce

” Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald OTE: I spend my Wednesdays Unplugged from appointments. It’s my day to stay home, enjoy...
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Great Home Inspection Report

What a great home inspection report looks like

I recently had another home inspection company owner ask me what an ideal home inspection report should look like. I gave him a fairly lengthy answer via text message, but...
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Showing Stats 2025 10 01

Weekly real estate market update 10/3/25… showings strongest in 5 years

Year-over-year showing activity this week surpassed previous years for the first time this year… higher than the last four years. It appears buyers are eagerly searching for homes to buy,...
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Can you buy before you sell?

In a competitive housing market, homes can be on sale one day and there can be a sold sign out front the next day! So if you find a home...
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House Key8

Best week to buy a home in 2025 is almost here

I have long felt that October is a great time to buy a home and Realtor.com recently predicted that the week of October 12-18 is the national sweet spot for...
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Baked Ziti

Wednesdays Unplugged – Baked Ziti

“Words have the power to change the world.” ~ Amanda Gorman, Youth Poet Laureate of the United States NOTE: I spend my Wednesdays Unplugged from appointments. It’s my day to stay home,...
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