Housing

Deluxe vacant-home tour: executives are the newest squatters

By Molly Priesmeyer, Minnesota Monitor
Sure, it's no secret that the Twin Cities metro area is suffering from a serious glut of homes for sale, most of which are seeing a price drop of 10 percent this year.MORE »

Northside Opportunities Home Tour shows possibilities for home ownership

By Anissa Hollingshead, Northside Opportunities Blog
Are you or someone you know thinking about buying a home? Have you always wanted to own your own home but didn't know how to make it happen? Have you considered living on the Northside?MORE »

Foreclosures and short sales make up nearly 30 percent of all Twin Cities home sales

By Molly Priesmeyer, Minnesota Monitor
A new report by the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors reveals that foreclosures and short sales accounted for 27.6 percent of all closed sales in the first quarter of 2008.MORE »

A few of my favorite new words

Todd Melby, 5/13/08 • One of my favorite sections in Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, the book that accompanies the current show on suburbia at the Walker Art Center, is the lexicon of new words and phrases collected by Rachel Hooper and Jayme Yen. I'll list a few here, along with the definitions provided in the book, which was edited by Andrew Blauvelt, design director at the Walker. By the way, at the Walker's website you can add your own creations or do it in the comment section of this blog. MORE »

City website offers tips for green remodeling

By Liz Riggs and Jeremy Stratton, The Bridge
The Center for Energy and Environment (CEE), through the Minnesota Energy Challenge, is giving away 10 free home energy audits and, for one lucky winner, an energy “makeover” worth up to $15,000.MORE »

Foreclosure solutions

By Batala-Ra McFarlane, Insight News
The escalating rate of home foreclosures is putting American homeowners in crisis-mode.MORE »

Home free? Minneapolis Advantage loan program begins accepting applications

By Molly Priesmeyer, Minnesota Monitor
In an effort to ward off the rising tide of vacant homes, the city of Minneapolis is offering forgivable $10,000 loans to qualified buyers purchasing homes in one of the city's 18 eligible neighborhooMORE »

Progressive property tax reform

By Jeff Van Wychen, Minnesota 2020
Minnesota's property tax is regressive, meaning that a disproportionate share of the property tax burden falls upon those with the least ability to pay.MORE »

The face of foreclosure

By Erin Sobaski, Dayton's Bluff District Forum

Nicki Tennyson (left) and her daughter Star are on the road to recovery after losing their house to foreclosure.

We hear it on the news every day: The severity of mortgage foreclosures. We see the statistics. But those are just numbers.MORE »

Vacant house tour

By Jeanette Fordyce, TC Daily Planet

297 Bates, 5 bedrooms, 2 full baths, unfinished attic, rehabbed in the late 1980s

Last weekend there were home tours in both St. Paul and Minneapolis, but on May 3-4 Dayton’s Bluff will have its first vacant house tour.MORE »
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