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Map: Where Minnesotans Are Moving to

Forbes has an online interactive map showing migration around the Country.  Below is an image I got when I clicked on Hennepin County, MN.  The red lines are showing people moving out of Hennepin County and black lines are showing … Continue reading

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Twin Cities Housing Market update. Week Ending Oct 08, 2011

Another great weekly housing market update from Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors. We continue to grind away at a faster pace on our inventory.  This week’s year-over-year stats: Change in New Listings:      -13%   Change in Pending Sales: … Continue reading

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Hennepin County Foreclosure Risk Scores by City and Zip, how does your zip code rank?

Here is some good information on foreclosures and delinquency by zip code.  Once again it is not in terms of actual numbers, but rather by “ranking” or “score”.  So it doesn’t give us a number of housing units that may … Continue reading

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Weekly Twin Cities Real Estate Market Update. Week Ending Oct 1, 2011

Still heading the right direction!  The 30 year fixed rate mortgage dipped below 4% for the first time ever last week which should hopefully improve the market conditions. For the Week Ending October 1st we saw a continued weaning of … Continue reading

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Greater MSP organization, bringing economic growth to the Twin Cities region

Apparently we are not the first to realize that our region’s employment situation has been grim and the repercussions of losing jobs can be devastating including population decline. There is an organization that has been created to try to promote … Continue reading

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2nd Quarter Mortgage Delinquency rates for Minnesota, our Shadow Inventory

Believe it or not I have been struggling to find good data to show what kind of potential Shadow Inventory we may be seeing down the road for Minnesota, and more specifically the Twin Cities metro region.  The Shadow Inventory … Continue reading

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Minneapolis/St.Paul MN, Twin Cities Unemployment Rate August 2011 – released 9/28/2011

The Metropolitan Area unemployment rates were released by the St Louis Federal Reserve this evening for August 2011. We know the State of Minnesota held at 7.2% unemployment rate for August, but now we can see how our local real … Continue reading

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Minneapolis MN Case Shiller Home Price Index July 2011, Released Sept 27, 2011

The much-anticipated Case-Shiller Home Price Index was released this morning.  Both Composite 10 and Minneapolis show signs of  improvement. Below is a list of the Metro areas including Minneapolis.  Minneapolis saw a 2.6% increase for July/June and 3.5%  increase for … Continue reading

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MinnPost – Hennepin County Board sets 1 percent levy increase

Hennepin County board decided that the tax levy will go up no more than 1 percent next year.  The board set the maximum property tax levy of $676.1 million, and will now hold public hearings before setting the final levy … Continue reading

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City of Minneapolis Tax Board Meeting next Tuesday, tax levy increase

The City of Minneapolis is having the Tax Board Meeting Tuesday at 5:05 pm in room 317 at the City Hall.   This will be in discussion of R.T. Rybak’s property tax increase proposal, the overall tax levy not the item by … Continue reading

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