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buyer: Minneapolis Real Estate Market Strengthens All Summer - 08/29/11 12:14 PM
Good news for buyers and sellers in the Minneapolis real estate market. By all indications our local market has been marching toward recovery and general health all summer. "Twin Cities home buyers posted their 14th consecutive week of double-digit, year-over-year gains" according to the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors. http://mplsrealtor.typepad.com/theskinny/2011/08/weekly-market-activity-report-3.html Autum will present the real yeast of this trend. As school starts and the cool weather settles in market activity will decline. We will be looking to see how this off season activity compares to past years'. … (0 comments)

buyer: Profiting in today’s Real Estate Market - 02/25/09 09:39 PM
Our most desirable neighborhoods are at a cross roads.  And home buyers and sellers can take advantage of it. 
Our "best" neighborhoods are feeling growing pains, caught between preservation & modernism, keeping things as they were & market forces.  As our population grows, the number of people in the upper 20-25% of income grows (this group is actually growing faster than the population as a whole).  The size of our "best" neighborhoods grows as a direct result.
 Areas once considered "above average" are increasingly being assimilated into the "best" areas as more and more upper income families enter the market.  It's … (0 comments)

buyer: Minneapolis Market Update - Jan. 30, 2008 - 01/30/08 09:22 AM
Minneapolis Real Estate - MARKET UPDATE
It's 14 degrees below zero - SPRING is HERE!
January 30th, 2008
by Ben Kolkman, REALTOR, Great Minneapolis Real Estate
In Minneapolis the spring season, in real estate at least, starts in January.  Ironic, considering it's so cold right now, that keys sitting in frozen lock boxes on the front doors of homes, can cause instant frost bite!  (And some say we don't earn our living ;-)
People are putting homes on the market at an alarming pace, but don't be scared, we won't know how heavy the flood of new listings will until February, and there is good … (0 comments)

 
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Ben Kolkman has been recognized by the local association of realtors and by local media as an expert in the Twin Cities real estate market. Ben leads discussion groups on marketing techniques for the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors, Young Professionals Networking group. He was awarded the 2009 Super Agent award by Mpls St. Paul Magazine and Twin Cities Business. KSTP and WCCO have both featured Ben in their newscasts, and he is a regular contributor on the DIY Network "Sweat Equity" cable TV program.


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