The J.S. Realty Team Blog

Attention first time buyers & current home owners. You have until 4/30/2010 to find a home to buy!! Sellers who are thinking about buying a new home can get up to $6500 tax credit. If you have lived in your home 5 of the past 8 years you can qualify when you buy a new home. First time buyers can ...

Time to get back in the groove with this blogging!! Check us out on Facebook too!! I just had a buyer lock in his interest rate at 4.5% for a 30 year mortgage....he's also going to get the $8000 tax credit because he's a first time buyer. Tell your friends & family!!  Real estate had been busy in...

The first snow storm of the year is suppose to arrive this evening....yea!! It probably won't be as much snow as they are predicting.  Kind of like the real estate market right now. It's NOT as bad as the rest of the USA is experiencing. Interest rates are below 6% right now....it's time to buy i...

The first weekend of deer hunting at Comstock Lake. My husband can't wait to get to the cabin outside of Cotton to begin. He takes a half a day off on Friday & the whole day off on Monday to enjoy his time in the woods. I don't believe he's REALLY a deer hunter....he's a book reader. He has a dee...

We still have pumpkins if you want to come & get one at J.S. Realty!! My youngest has decided that Halloween is his favorite holiday!! We've been shopping 4 different times to look for costumes, ususally ending with, "Where else can we go, Mom??" I think he just likes looking at them.....he decid...

Fall is certainly in the air!! We are doing our pumpkin give away a little different this year. This Friday, October 17th from 12-7:00 & Saturday, October 18th from 9:00-noon come to the office at 5112 Midway Rd for a free pumpkin & a cup of cider. Directions: N on Hwy 53, right on Midway Rd 2 mi...

I've been showing homes in certain price ranges and areas in our Duluth, MN market and am finding it difficult to give the buyer options!!!  The market is picking up and we could use some nice, marketable homes on the market!  Some homes that have been in certain price brackets are moving very qu...

Spring is in the air....glad to see the snow melting, finally!! Duluth Area Assoc of Realtors Statistics for 2008 first quarter are good with 165 pending sales & 288 solds. Average days on the market=79. Average sale price $161,187. The high sale being $1,415,000 in Ely & low being $23,400 in Lin...

The weather is starting to feel more like spring - buyers are starting to come out!  Jamie has put 7 closing on the board, we have listed several homes, we closed on a sale today and our showing count is up!  Julie and Jackie both have out - of - town buyers coming in to look at homes over the ho...

I have been keeping track of the average single family home price in the Duluth, MN area since 2000.  Below is the chart I have created using statistics from the Duluth Area Association of Realtors that shows the average list/sale price along with the median list/sale price.  In looking at the gr...