From Memorial Day through the Fourth of July weekend, there’s not a lot happening in the local housing market. Potential buyers go fishing; friends and relatives from the lower 48 come to vist; local movers and shakers fly or drive out to their cabins and summer homes Continue Reading
Archives for June 2014
Alaska Housing Market Crunch
Good luck trying to find a place to rent in Anchorage which has high rents and low vacancy rates. The last survey by the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation put a 3.3% apartment vacancy rate and just 2% vacancy for single family homes. It doesn’t help that Alaska Continue Reading
How to Manage Upgrades
The number one complaint about builders is not that they don’t finish on time, not that they don’t return calls or do warranty work; it is that their allowances for light fixtures, cabinets, flooring, even faucets is not adequate and that most buyers of new homes end up Continue Reading
Connie Yoshimura, Owner/Broker of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Alaska Realty.