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12 Steps to Transition Your Real Estate Business to The New Year

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Ways to Transition Your Real Estate Business Into the New Year

It’s impossible to think of ending one year without looking ahead to what’s around the corner. I love the mystery that awaits, knowing that I can prepare for events down the road. With that in mind, I anticipate the new year with excitement and optimism and a dusting of prudent vigilance.

The last couple of weeks of December is the perfect time to review the past twelve months. When the pace of the real estate market slows down, an opportunity to streamline my goals and business plan enables me to be ready for the start of the new year. My words of the day are: review, reorganize, refresh, and recycle. Here are twelve ways to do it.

1. Freshen Up Your Real Estate Bio

Now is the time to bring your bio up to date on your real estate and social media accounts. Elements you want to include when you refresh your bio are awards, achievements, real estate courses completed, professional certifications earned, and milestones reached. It would help if you could also talk about any community service projects or volunteering you participate in. Connect personally with marriage and birth announcements, interests, or hobbies. Also, consider new professional photos, especially if you didn’t take one last year.

2. Evaluate Your Real Estate Tools

Today’s homebuyer is very tech-savvy and expects the same from their real...

2017 Favorites From Our Twin Cities Home Blog

Our Favorite Blog Posts of 2017

It’s that time again. As we say goodbye to the old year and look ahead to 2018 with great expectations it is always worthwhile to reflect on the last 12 months and review the work accomplished with some satisfaction. On Our Twin Cities Home Blog, we try to bring you the best information we can find on everything real estate from buying and selling a home to living well in our vibrant and beautiful Twin Cities Metro.

As we look forward to more good work this year we’d like to share some of our favorite posts with you again. So without further ado, here is what we think deserves a second look before we close the books and begin the first chapter of the brand new year!

The Minnesota Property Group A Twin Cities Success Story

Has a year really passed since I wrote this one? It was one of my favorites because I am proud to work with Joe all 365 days of the year. He has a great real estate story and a great philosophy on how he approaches real estate so I felt it appropriate to tell it one more time.  

Passive Savings -  Like Giving Yourself a Raise

Saving more money is a popular new year’s resolution for many people. Well, it just so happens we know a little about that here at the Minnesota Property Group. When I started researching the topic of how to save, it got me thinking of other ways that you could do it without feeling the pain or strain of giving up stuff you like.  I called it passive savings and I fell head over heels in love with all of these ideas and incorporated them all into my own life. So this became a practice what you preach stories. This is definitely advice worth sharing over and over again so for any of you who would like to put a little more cash in your pocket at the end of the month, this article is for you!  

Let the Magic of This Wayzata Home Enchant You

We believe that every home has its own unique story...

Top Remax Real Estate Team in the Twin Cities

Twin Cities - Minneapolis

Twin Cities Real Estate Market Review by Top Remax Results Team

It’s that time again, the brand new year that marks the start of 365 days of new opportunities as well as new challenges. It is a psychological line of demarcation between what past and what will happen in the next 12 months. Some factors we can control and others we can’t but still, it is a fresh start. An opportunity to review and evaluate, amend and renew as we head into the new year. 

This is the time I look back and celebrate the accomplishments of the Minnesota Property Group of RE/MAX Results as a team, and mine personally as the team leader. While I celebrate the successful outcomes, the resolve to do better for my clients, my team, my community and my family is the cornerstone on which I will build my priorities for 2017.

Minnesota Property Group 2017

It Was A Great Year in Real Estate for The Twin Cities Top Realtors

The Minnesota Property Group, like the 2016 housing market, had a very successful year in local Real Estate.  As the team leader, it has been profoundly gratifying for me to oversee...

Sell Your Home Now

Selling a home, Real Estate Market Conditions, Minneapolis-Saint Paul Housing Market

Selling your Twin Cities Minnesota Home

6 Reasons to Sell Your Home Now

The last several years have been tough for some families who wanted to sell and move to a bigger home. Often they found they owed more on their property than it would bring on the current market. Perhaps they did not see themselves "underwater" but needed more equity to finance that purchase.

There are empty nesters who no longer want the responsibility or expense that comes with the 4 or 5 bedroom property and are ready to downsize to a smaller house, a townhouse, or even that trendy chic loft downtown they have always wanted.

Are you a potential seller waiting for the right time to list your house for sale? Let's look at current market conditions because now may be the time to make a move!

1. Current inventories of properties for sale are low

Inventory levels of houses for sale continue to remain low.  The Market Activity Report published by the Minnesota Area Association of Realtors for March reported that new listings had increased 5.5%, inventory decreased 4.1% and month's supply of inventory decreased 6.1%

2.  Low inventory levels lead to increased values 

It's all about that beautiful law of supply and demand, folks!  In the same Market report, although inventory was down, the median sale price for the same period increased 7.6%.

3. Low inventories mean a faster sale

And from that same report, days on the market decreased 12% while, as a bonus, the percentage of original list price received was 95%.

4. Interest rates are still low

Although interest rates are still at record lows, the prediction is that as the year...