http://www.valleymarket.com Wasilla, Palmer, and Mat-Su Valley Real Estate News Sat, 10 May 2008 07:51:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Only in Alaska would you see an ad like this one… http://anchorage.craigslist.org/zip/673017049.html.  I’m not sure that the ad is legit, or if it is legal to haul off a moose from someone’s yard.  But, it’s funny just the same. And it’s not the only free moose on Craigslist.  April had another ... http://www.valleymarket.com/2008/05/09/dead-moosefree/ Monday Market Memo for the week ending May 5, 2008.  These are the statistics for the Mat-Su MLS for this week. Well we went over 800 for our total inventory for the first time since last summer.  That was to be expected.  I think we will stay above this number for ... http://www.valleymarket.com/2008/05/05/wasilla-real-estate-statistics-may-5-2008/ Building lot sales are an indication of the amount of future growth in an area.  If you are going to build a new construction home, you will need to have a lot. While new construction is a significant portion of the total market, land sales have dropped off faster than has ... http://www.valleymarket.com/2008/05/02/wasilla-and-palmer-land-sales-statistics/ Jay and I have been showing a lot of homes in the $175,000–$200,000 price range in Wasilla and Palmer over the past few weeks. It has become obvious that new construction is a pretty good buy in that price bracket.  We have sold several new homes in the $175,000–$200,000 this year that ... http://www.valleymarket.com/2008/05/01/wasilla-new-constructiona-good-buy/ I often have people question the need for title insurance.  They feel that they can easily go down to the state recording office and find out any thing they need about a property. I would never want to purchase a property without title insurance.  There are so many ways to cloud a title ... http://www.valleymarket.com/2008/04/29/title-insurancewhy-you-need-it/ Wasilla Real Estate News Statistics for this week show a little life in the real estate market.  I have been waiting all spring for our normal jump and it started to show up this week. Most of us have been experiencing more calls, more showings, and generally more activity in the ... http://www.valleymarket.com/2008/04/28/monday-morning-market-memo-for-april-28-2008/ Dave Johnson of Fishhook Realty questions my weather forecasting abilities in his comments on my last post officially announcing spring.  Look at them, the geese, cranes and ducks are still there under about 4 inches of fresh snow on the Palmer Experimental Farm fields.  It really is spring!                       If that doesn’t ... http://www.valleymarket.com/2008/04/25/i-still-say-its-spring-in-palmer/ Wasilla Real Estate News market statistics for the week ending April 21, 2008.  This includes Palmer and the rest of the Matanuska Susitna Borough. It is amazing that this week is almost identical to last week.  We had almost the same amount of everything except total active listings.  Those were up ... http://www.valleymarket.com/2008/04/21/wasilla-real-estate-monday-market-memo-3/ A couple weeks ago I announced that spring had come.  Since then we have had temperatures down to 10 degrees and several good sized snow storms. So much for my weather forecasting abilities. But now, someone else has made it official.  The geese are on the fields in Palmer.  We look ... http://www.valleymarket.com/2008/04/20/this-time-it-really-is-springthe-geese-have-arrived-in-palmer/ In Wasilla and Palmer, new construction homes still have a large share of the real estate market.  I have been noticing quite a few new houses in the closed sales list every week so decided to take a look at the numbers…here they are.   First lets look at the whole Palmer ... http://www.valleymarket.com/2008/04/19/new-construction-still-a-large-part-of-the-mat-su-market/