See our Madeline Island Realty ad in the Island Gazette on March 24th As of the end of 2017, we completed our sixth consecutive year in which we made at least one Madeline Island/Bayfield sale at or above $500,000. And in the last eight years, we made nine upper-bracket sales between $500,000 and
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03/03/2018
Problems with Madeline Island Maps on the Web Three years ago, while we were updating our website, we discovered something on Bing and Open Street maps (Open Street maps are used by MapQuest and have been used in the past by Snapchat and Foursquare). The problem was that Madeline Island was depic
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03/03/2018
Amazon's "Agent NEO" app Could be a Game Changer for Real Estate Agents Inman News is talking about this. I haven't seen it mentioned on Active Rain yet, but it's certainly getting attention elsewhere. And if you've missed it, you might benefit from doing a little research. Agent NEO is Amazon's
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12/06/2017
Appraiser and blogger Mary Thompson has really hit it out of the park with this post. Sellers, want to see yourself get ripped off by selling your property without exposing it to the market? Just fall into the "pocket listing" trap (or more gently put, "private listing"). It's a windfall for the
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07/04/2017
Thank goodness for the re-blog feature on Active Rain! Here's a real gem from real estate pro (and Broker) Debe Maxwell in Charlotte, North Carolina. We regularly hear the question from our Madeline Island and Bayfield (Wisconsin) Sellers, "why did that house sell for more than ours?" Sellers c
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05/08/2017
Why Do So Many Buyers of a Summer Home Wait Until Autumn to Buy? Real Estate agents who sell recreational properties ("summer homes" or "vacation homes") witness this phenomenon every year. In our service area, the Apostle Islands of Lake Superior (also referred to as the "South Shore") buyers ty
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05/07/2017
MLS Consolidation On the Way & What it Means to Consumers & Agents To paraphrase the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, "the only constant (in real estate) is change". And if national real estate experts have anything to say about it, we are looking at another incoming wave of change in the way we de
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02/01/2017
Madeline Island Real Estate Buyers Picking up Late Season Bargains Almost every year, we see a late-season surge of home buying on Madeline Island and throughout the Apostle Islands area. 2016 has been no exception. Home buyers and vacant land shoppers who began looking months ago have finally go
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12/07/2016
Words of Appreciation From a Client in Hawaii One of our seller clients who resides on the Island of Maui wrote us today with a very kind testimonial. She wrote, "Eric Kodner of Madeline Island Realty was very helpful to us in selling our Madeline Island waterfront home, especially appreciated si
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06/01/2016
Madeline Island Realty Salutes the French American School of Minneapolis At its 20th Anniversary Gala fundraising event yesterday evening for the French American School of Minneapolis (formerly the French Academy of Minnesota), Madeline Island Realty was proud to be represented in an ad which ap
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05/06/2016
