It is the time of year where you can't escape lists of "Top Tens" and "Best Ofs". In that spirit, I present to you the the ten highest sale prices of lake ...
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2017 is nearly over and it has been a busy year in real estate in the Alexandria Area. If buying or selling a lake home in or around the Alexandria, it is ...
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The newsletter I send out via email on Saturday mornings (sign up at the footer of any page of this site) concentrates on lake homes located in Alexandria, Minnesota and surrounding areas ...
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Remodeling Magazine each of the last thirty years has published a report called Cost vs. Value. Their objective is to pass on to the public uninfluenced information about what it will cost ...
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It has been a busy year in Alexandria's real estate market. Not crazy busy but similar to 2015. Quietly strong. This morning I was scrolling through my memory and recalling sales of ...
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Red Rock has been very popular this year. Seven sales of lake homes wouldn't garner attention for lakes such as Darling, Carlos and Le Homme Dieu but for a 520 acre lake ...
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How does this year stack up versus the previous year in lake home sales in Alexandria? Pretty nicely. In 2015, 101 lake homes were sold from January 1st thru August 26th versus ...
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The Greater Alexandria Area is blessed with an abundance of bucolic, clean lakes. People considering buying lake homes or lake lots pay close attention, as they should, to water clarity reports as ...
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The end of each year brings lists to newspapers, magazines and news programs on television such as the top movies of the year or the most used names for newborn babies. Each ...
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In 2015 lake lots have been a more frequent topic in my discussions with people considering lakefront real estate. A number of them decided to proceed in purchasing lake lots as have ...
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As a member of the National Association of Realtors (NAR) I have access to something called Realtors Property Resource. Created by NAR, the RPR site and app provided comprehensive data and analytics ...
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32 lake lots (lake frontage, not common or deeded) have sold in the Alexandria, MN real estate market per the Greater Alexandria Area Association of REALTORS Multiple Listing Service since the beginning ...
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12 lake homes with frontage at Lake Carlos have sold in 2014 (11 closed, 1 in escrow) in Alexandria's Multiple Listing Service, Greater Alexandria Area Association of REALTORS. The majority of the ...
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Last month residential homes in Alexandria, both on and off the lake, sold on average at 96.1 percent of the price listed in the Greater Alexandria Area Association of REALTORS Multiple Listing ...
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Curious about the prices of lake homes in and around Alexandria? Below I have the average sale prices of lakefront real estate in the Alexandria Area since the first of the year ...
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The National Association of REALTORS (NAR) 2014 Investment and Vacation Home Buyers Survey is out and reports that vacation home sales jumped 29.7% in 2013 from 2012. In 2013 there were 717,000 ...
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Real estate sales statistics in 2013 for homes with frontage on Lake Carlos, Lake Darling, Lake Le Homme Dieu, Lake Geneva, Lake Victoria, Lake Latoka, Maple Lake, Lake Ida and Lake Miltona ...
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The National Association of REALTORS released sales data for December of 2013 and it shows the housing market remained strong, especially for homes with sale prices above $500,000. The released stats show ...
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After being quiet for too many years, sales of lake lots in the Alexandria Area perked up in the second half of 2013. The sales were fairly evenly distributed between twenty lakes ...
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For those of you interested in Alexandria's lake home market, I have a page of my site where you can review the closed lake home sales in 2013 that occurred in and ...
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Towards the end of November I started to write a blog post about the List to Sale Ratio in Alexandria, Minnesota but decided to wait until we moved into December. Partially because ...
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Lakefront market statistics can be misleading since there are so many variables that affect price. So on a rainy Friday afternoon, I am taking a closer look at 2013 lake sales with ...
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Most often, the people I come in contact with that are looking to purchase a lake home in Douglas County want to be on a lake larger than 600 acres. This afternoon ...
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115 lake homes have sold as of today in Minnesota's Douglas County since the beginning of 2013. To be clear, by 'sold' I am referring to lake homes that went into escrow ...
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