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Friday, 6 February 2009

Buying a Minneapolis Condominiums

By K. Kim

The largest metropolitan area in the state of Minnesota is the greater Minneapolis St. Paul area and it has become popular place for new home owners. The hottest areas for Minneapolis condominiums are North Warehouse District, North Quadrant Region, and St. Paul's Lowertown, you can find many condo developments along the Mississippi river.

Many of the new high rise developments and luxury condos have beautiful views of the city along the river. Warehouse and factory building have been turned into condos because they have stable structures that provide solid building structures for the condominiums. Some of these range from $400,000 in the lower end to over $1,800,000 for luxury penthouse condos.

Even with the current down market, the Minneapolis condominiums market has likely seen bottoming of prices, the reason inventories of downtown Minneapolis condos that are under $400,000 is dwindling and very few new construction is happening in the market. Many experts are seeing price stability in North Loop and Mill District area where prices can be affordable at $300,000.

But if you are thinking about selling your Minneapolis condominiums remember the average days on the market has increase 28 percent over last year to 108 days. But the inventories have declined for downtown as available condos for sale have declined by about 30 percent.

One positive news is that the aver median selling price has increased 6 percent. Even with many short sales and foreclosure auctions at a rate of 35 percent, the Twin Cities real estate market have remained better than rest of the country. The price have been below the national level by less than 8 percent.

Good deals will be bringing back home buyers in the spring, make sure you wait for the right time and right condo to purchase. One thing for sure, the real estate market will rebounds from dismal 2008. - 16931

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