(Seasonally) Quiet Out There

Very Still Ponds
On the assumption that Edina Realty's City Lakes Office is a good bellwether, it's pretty quiet out there at the moment.

How quiet?

For the seven day period December 20-26 -- in other words, spanning Christmas -- there were a sum total of 26 showings for my office.

By contrast, in early April, before the Buyer tax credits expired, weekly showings peaked at just under 300.

In non-tax credit years, the peak typically arrives a few weeks later, in late April - early May.

P.S.: And no, that's not a local pond; Minnesota's lakes and ponds are now very much frozen.

"Don't Miss the $8,000 Buyer Tax Credit!"

Realtor Marketing Faux Pas

Thought you missed the $8,000 tax credit available to new Buyers?

Not according to the Realtor ad I saw (several times) playing on the preview loop at the Hopkins movie theatre tonight.

Besides extolling her 20 years experience selling local real estate, the agent's ad trumpeted that "there was still time to take advantage of the $8,000 Buyer tax credit."

That would be the $8,000 tax credit that expired April 30.

Oops!

Glad it was a Burnet agent, not an Edina one.