Sold by Jared Jacobs – Rochester MN Real Estate Blog

Should you wait until the market rebounds to sell your home? And yet, some potential sellers wonder if they’re better off waiting to sell until the market recovers. It really depends upon your ultimate goals of course, but if you’re at a stage where you need a larger home, then read on.
This is one of [...]

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This 4 bedroom 3 bath home backs up to a large park and is a must see at $199,900! Home features large deck, gas fireplace, spacious floor plan and much more.
Open House this Saturday (7/24) from 10am – 11:30!
Rochester MN MLS #4016974
Check out www.soldbyjaredjacobs.com “featured listings” for pictures of this great property!

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Rochester had 1,250 active listings at the end of June. 241 properties sold in June. 180 new listings were added in June. Average days on market for a sold property was 97 days in June. The absorption rate is sitting at roughly 8.67 months worth of inventory.
This data was taken from our [...]

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Fantastic investment opportunity with this fully occupied 6 plex located near Mayo Clinic and St Mary’s in beautiful downtown Rochester MN! Please contact Jared Jacobs, CRS with Counselor Realty of Rochester at (507) 421-6845 for more details and your tour today!

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New home on the market in Plainview, MN.
Garage lovers dream! One car attached with large workshop and large 3 car detached with loads of storage space. Home features 4 bedrooms on main level, large kitchen, den/office on both upper and lower level, gas fireplace, deck, fenced yard with attractive landscaping and much more! [...]

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Selling your home can be a challenge, especially if you are going to really miss your home, or have been there for a long time. Add to this the fact that you’ll more than likely not get what you would have only a couple years ago.
I was in this position only a few months [...]

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Traditional sellers in the Rochester Minnesota real estate market are certainly not finding this the most joyous time to be marketing a home. With the market inundated with foreclosures and short-sales, distress is often felt by sellers not in the same financial crisis as some homeowners, who are either trying to weather dramatically increased mortgage [...]

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1. Ask lots of questions of your lender.
The home buying process really starts with the pocket book. Not only do you need to know how much you can afford to buy now, but you need to look at what the closing costs are, as well as what the long term cost of the [...]

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Per local MLS data here are some statistics for the Rochester MN Real Estate market for May 2010.
195 listings sold in the month of May.
182 new listings were taken in May.
There were 1,239 active listings at the end of May.
We’ve currently got 8.67 months worth of inventory based on current average days on market and [...]

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There were a total of 1,187 listings active at the end of March. There were a total of 409 new listings added in March. There were a total of 98 properties sold in March.
We were sitting with just under 8.4 months worth of inventory at the end of March.
Active median list price was [...]

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