Housing reporter at the Strib, cover residential real estate.
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Interesting...Airbnb plans to turn 14 multifamily properties into short-term rentals by 2020. bit.ly/2nPGqJn
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More detail on July housing starts, including 25% gain (July `17 to July `18) of single-family units authorized but not started construction. Nonetheless, single-family starts are up 7% on a year-to-date basis: eyeonhousing.org/2018/08/fla…
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Goldman: The tax bill will slow the pace of home price gains, to something less than last year's 6%+ gain.
Gains at the low end will outpace those at the high end, which sees a bigger policy drag.
Little change seen to homeownership rates.
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Half of all Realtors are making $100K or more in gross household income bit.ly/2qru2ly
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#NARPHS @NAR_Research's Lawrence Yun expects ebbs and flows in activity as supply struggles to replace listings quickly going under contract
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Here's the salary you need to earn to afford a home in these 27 metro areas #homebuying #home buff.ly/2gWtU5U
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First-time buyers were 33% of sales in October; Investors were 13%; All-cash sales were 22%; Distressed sales were 5%. #NAREHS
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The guy who co-built @Uber is coming for real estate inman.com/2016/07/28/the-guy…
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In a short span this fall, downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul get 1,000 new hotel rooms strib.mn/2ct8j70
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Fascinating story from @ErinStrib on how Orthodox Jews make an entire neighborhood their home. strib.mn/20QWWmg
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Institutional investors own only about 1% of nation's detached single-family rental homes. @Kim_Betancourt explains: bit.ly/22Jzo6J
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Developers wanted to build apartments on an island, so they built a bridge startribune.com/blogs/331480… @JustListedBlog
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Ralph Burnet sells two of Minneapolis' glitziest hotels, The W (Foshay) and Le Meridian, for $101 million: strib.mn/1REq8Ze
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.@CNBC ranks Minnesota No. 1 for business despite being #35 for cost of doing business. Here are the 60 measures used cnb.cx/1TNp5u2
