Pandemic has more Twin Cities
home buyers looking outward
Posted By: voxpopuli, 1/30/2021 9:48:23 PM
It took just two days for a split-level house near Stacy to sell this month. Put on the market on a Friday for $284,900, it was shown 18 times and drew five offers by that Sunday, all above asking price. Realtor Hyounsoo Lathrop wasn't surprised. "With COVID, people want to be away from the cities and have some space," she said. "Out here you get top dollar." (snip) With rising crime in Minneapolis and St. Paul and many of the amenities that once drew buyers and renters to those downtowns still shuttered, a new level of uncertainty has emerged about what urban life will look like.
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It took just two days for a split-level house near Stacy to sell this month. Put on the market on a Friday for $284,900, it was shown 18 times and drew five offers by that Sunday, all above asking price.
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gee.. had to read down a ways to find out why people are REALLY moving away.. pandemic.. yeah..