December 2010 
There are 4 blog entries for December 2010.
Greening Minnesota ~ December 2010
Thursday, December 30th, 2010 at 11:20pm. 461 Views, 0 Comments.
With all the white stuff that has been flying lately, December has been a slow month for green news in Minnesota. There are still a few stories worth noting.
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson has filed suit against the 3M Co., demanding that it pay the cleanup costs for decades of pollution caused by chemicals that have seeped into the Mississippi River and the drinking water of communities across the eastern Twin Cities metro area. The suit was filed in Hennepin County District Court after months of fruitless out-of-court settlement talks between the state and Maplewood-based 3M.
Forty-six new solar-powered parking meters went online in downtown Minneapolis recently. And quite literally. The meters are solar-powered and use Minneapolis’ Wi-Fi to allow…
A Perfect Storm Helps December Home Buyers
Monday, December 20th, 2010 at 11:48pm. 501 Views, 0 Comments.
The weather outside might be frightful, but the climate of the Twin Cities real estate market is a day at the beach for well-qualified home buyers.
According to the St. Paul Area Association of Realtors, November's median home price in the 13-county Twin Cities metro area dropped 2.5% to $165,700 in November. Home sales declined 39.1% while pending sales, an indicator of future activity, were down 3.3%.
A report from Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors shows a small improvement on the housing supply front. It shows that while housing inventory levels are still increasing, the rate of increase has been tapering off. Active listings are down 9.6 percent from last year.
Additionally, the Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller home price index indicates Twin Cities…
What $267,000 Buys in Blaine MN
Thursday, December 16th, 2010 at 8:10pm. 606 Views, 0 Comments.
Here is MLS # 3998015
This single-family houseis located at 913 104th Lane NE in Blaine, Minnesota. This 2-story home is a new construction home that will be completed in 2011. It has 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and 1,898-square-feet of space.
This beautiful home features a sleek gourmet Kitchen with granite countertops and Knotty Alder cabinets, maple hardwood floors, and ceramic tile. Large panels of windows and smaller windows in unique places allow for plenty of natural lighting in almost every room of the house.
The yard for this property includes sod and an irrigation system. The home has a two-car garage.
This new house in the new Blaine Haven Development could be yours for $267,000!
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Super-Sized Homes Are Out, Super-Small Homes Are In
Thursday, December 9th, 2010 at 2:22am. 756 Views, 0 Comments.
The American home got supersized during the housing boom. In the era of the McMansion, a ginormous house was a symbol of status, but to current home buyers they are the epitome risk and high overhead. Today's home buyer wants something a little smaller.
After decades of expanding, the average size of new single-family American homes completed in 2009 dropped to a nationwide average of 2,438. That's about 100 square feet smaller than 2007, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
"There's so much more concern about very big homes," said Robert Lang, director of Brookings Mountain West, University of Nevada-Las Vegas. "People used to buy as much house as they could afford. Now they're saying, 'Even if I could buy that, do I really want…
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