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Realtor, writer, photographer. . living in, working in and loving life in St. Paul, Minnesota. Author of the St. Paul Real Estate blog and St. Paul Photos.
The Saint Paul Area Association of Realtors just published a report about the state of the local housing market. They get the numbers from the same place that we all get them from the Regional Multiple Listing Service, which is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.
The local Realtor associations came out with their reports for the month. Home prices are low, and so are interest rates, which in combination makes buying a home more affordable than it has been in decades.
I wanted to make up for last week’s photos with a different kind of white. These are the roses that grow in the lovely gardens on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol building.
Speaking of gardening, now is the time to start planing for a garden. It is too early to dig, but not too early to think about what you might want to plant.
The chart was made from numbers from our local MLS for St. Paul, Minnesota for the month of December 2010. The data is deemed reliable but not guaranteed but there are few guarantees in life.
Not what I expect to see in downtown St. Paul in the snow. The statue is in the green space on St. Peter Street and 6th Street.
There isn’t any signage explaining what it is, but Google told me that the King Tut Egyptian art exhibit is coming to the Science Museum of Minnesota in February 2011.
Adopt a fire hydrant today. They make excellent pets because you don’t have to feed them or walk them. Fire hydrants get buried in the snow and that makes it harder for the wonderful folks at the St. Paul fire department to hook up a hose so they can put out fires. It will be your job to clear the snow around the fire hydrant that you adopt. Continue Reading
Ice on the river
The last month of the year. I thought posting a couple of pictures that I took last weekend would be a good way to start December.
No sense beating around the bush this morning — I’m unemployed for the first time in over 25 years; involuntarilly separated from my employer after over eleven years of very-enjoyable service.
It happens every couple of years. Someone keeps going south on N. Continue Reading
