General Real Estate Talk

We just listed this really nice 28 x 60 foot 2002 built mobile/manufactured home in the Buffalo Manor park addition.  This home is being offered by the original owner and offers many features you simply wont find in other homes such as walk-in-closets in all 3 bedrooms and 3 extra storage closets throughout the home. With nearly 1,700 square feet of living space theres plenty of room for entertaining or family. Other features include:

The town-hall meeting has come and gone so what happened at the grocery store meeting that you should know? First and foremost, the turn out was AWESOME! Rockford residents really came together and not only showed up to listen but more importantly asked great questions.

Searching for a mobile/manufactured home Realtor in the Rockford area? Our Rockford based real estate office has been selling properties of all types for well over a decade but we never offered any type of mobile home or manufactured home sales until now. The Derrick Monroe Group of Realtors now offers mobile home and manufactured home sales.

Welcome to our brand new, revised and packed full of cool new search tools web site! We are really excited to finally see our new and improved Minneapolis real estate web site on line. Michelle Schmidt, owner of www.icelinkdesign.net, worked diligently side by side with us for weeks building some of the best real estate search tools out there and in our opinion, a top notch web site…Thank you so much Michelle for all of your hard work.

Nothing to do with real estate but if your an animal lover like I am this video showing "why e-mail was invented" is pretty funny... enjoy

Relocating to Minnesota? It's one thing if you've been to Minnesota or Minneapolis before but if you've never been there or spent any amount of time it can be tough with a relocation move.

We help many people each year with their relocation needs to Minnesota and understand that not only are each persons needs unique to them but we also understand you want information on schools, neighborhoods, shopping and house values to help make the best decision you can.

With many people seeing and feeling the equity being squeezed out of their home a trend that is happening in the housing market today are homeowners strategically planning to default on their loans. The twist: They first want financing to buy another property.

Inventory is growing as home sales decline. All three property types and five of the eight price ranges that the board of Realtors track are showing year-over-year increases in homes for sale. The biggest area of growth is in the lowest price ranges, where an influx of new foreclosures and short sales and a decline in sales post-tax-credit has led to the growth.

Sales are declining in all price ranges except the high-end markets above $500,000, where sales have eked out small gains over the last 12 months.

A recent report from the Daily News indicates that the New York housing market is red hot, renewing hope that other areas will feel the same good fortune sooner than later.

New York's real estate board said in the last quarterly survey, from July through September home sales jumped 18%, to 11,597, up from 9,827 during the same time last year.

The sale prices in New York were another thing to climb by 26% to $8.36 billion compared to a year earlier.

The average price of a New York home rose by 7%, to $722,000.

Economy in the Midwest Shows Improvement
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis reported that the economy in the Upper Midwest is strengthening at a modest pace. Fed economists Toby Madden and Rob Grunewald delivered their mid-year update on the regional economic outlook last week.