It's nearly mid-May and spring is nearly a month behind the calendar in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul area.
Graduation time is less than a month away and usually trees are budding, people are putting in gardens and mowing lawns. But this year, the Twin Cities area has been plagued by a longer than average winter, with recent snowfalls and cool, rainy weather. Even mosquito season is behind schedule!
Minnesotans are, for the most part, stoics who tend to ignore less than perfect weather. But in the upper Midwest, folks are understandably impatient to see spring arrive.
The flip side of this late spring seems to be that buyers are coming out of hibernation. Perhaps they're tired of waiting for spring. And spring weather typically causes buyer activity to increase here.
We've noticed the volume of calls to our office has increased significantly during the past ten days or so. Obviously there are buyers who aren't discouraged by the weather! And that's good news for agents who have been waiting for that "silver lining" to appear from the cloudy, rainy weather of spring.
Whatever's causing it, I'm glad to see buyers making their forays into the market. And I hope this is a sign that the Twin Cities real estate market will continue to improve.
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