The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, increased 5.2 percent to 104.8 in October from an upwardly revised 99.6 in September and is 13.2 percent above October 2011 when it was 92.6. The data home prices rise in October 2012reflect contracts but not closings. Lawrence Yun , NAR chief economist, …

I was informed a couple months ago that I would be featured in the November issue of The Mpls. St. Paul Magazine as one of the 2012 Super Real Estate Agents of the Twin Cities. Of course I was excited to hear the news and wanted to make some Derrick Monroe Super Real Estate Agent …

I don’t know about you but property taxes (in my opinion) are all over the map. We get the statement in the mail year after year and property taxes are up, down, same as previous years, lower my property taxand not always in-line with other properties near ours…what gives? Are they accurate? Too high or …

Gold’s Gym located in Buffalo MN near Walmart is no longer. The new owners of the facility have recently changed the name to Xperience Fitness. Vertical Fitness Group, the company that owns the Buffalo MN gym says the name change will not change your dues and the staff will remain the same. The old Golds …

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. What was set up to be a twenty minute Q …

By now you may have heard, Rockford is looking into a Grocery Store – more specifically a co-op. Over the weekend, I spoke to a few residents and learned that the PR on this store is already under some scrutiny which I can understand and would like to do my best to address within this …

In case you missed it here is the last few minutes of the Delano fireworks for 2011. The start is a bit slow but the ending is pretty good, Delano always puts on a good parade and firework show……enjoy.

It seems as though everyone has heard of the MLS. The MLS stands for Multiple realtors can not say search the mls and has come under a great deal of controversy over the last handful of years from the Board Of Realtors as well as real estate agents and the Northstar MLS folks who work …

Its hard to believe yet another year is going to soon be behind us. 2010 was certainly a trying year for many, let’s hope 2011 brings positive changes along with it and for the economy. With Thanksgiving and the Christmas holiday upon us I wanted to extend a note to all that take the time …

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 …