All sorts of Covid-19 related federal dollars, plus dividend money and $500 million paid out in unemployment for the first six months of 2020 has kept the Alaska residential market stable for the first half of 2020. For week 28, the 442 single family Anchorage Continue Reading
Falling in Love with Alaska
I have to admit that when it’s been time for me to take a break from my real estate activities, I’ve always gotten on a plane—New York, LA, Hawaii, D.C., the Nile, China, Tibet, St. Petersburg -you get the drift. But now due to the corona virus, I’ve had to curtain my Continue Reading
A Home is as Individual as its’ Owner
Thank you, Alaska, for the tremendous support and response to our affiliation with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. Extending our marketing reach with Adwerx, Videolicious and a global website provides more opportunities for our sellers that, frankly, we were Continue Reading
Trekking Through the Mat-Su
I spent last weekend in the Valley visiting new home communities in the Mat-Su Spring Preview of Homes. The last time I was in the Valley, I came within a few inches of hitting a moose crossing the Knik Goose Bay Road in the dead of night so I was glad to see the KGB Continue Reading
Thank You for Reading My Real Estate Columns for Almost Forty Years
As many of you know, I began my real estate career with the goal of making enough money so that I could quit work and write poetry. Poets are inevitably poor and I grew up in a midwestern factory town which manufactured Maytag parts and where my Caucasian grandfather Continue Reading
A Surprising Spring Market
When I read that statewide unemployment benefit payments in March increased by 1,024% compared to a year ago and that the price of oil went negative, I worried about our local housing market. When I walked downtown this past Sunday afternoon and saw all the shuttered Continue Reading
My Crystal Ball is Missing
For several years, I have taught new realtors not to discuss politics, religion or sex when working with buyers and sellers. Everyone is entitled to their political opinions; preferences for personal relationships and their religious Continue Reading
How Real Estate Is Changing
Driving down C street on my way to work, I can’t help but reflect how in just a few short weeks the real estate industry has changed. I now carry in my tote a face mask and rubber gloves. My iPhone has the zoom app and virtual tours are taking the place of most open Continue Reading
Home Sweet Home
Now more than ever, your home is a safe haven. Whether it’s an apartment, a trailer, a single family home or your first condo, we are grateful to have a place in which to ‘hunker down’. A special thank you to Robin Ward, head of Real Estate Services for the MOA, who Continue Reading
Thoughts on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
So here I am writing this column from my home office after being encouraged by caring staff to follow the CDC instructions for social distancing and self-quarantine after having traveled last week in the lower ’49 and, even though I hate to admit it, Continue Reading
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Connie Yoshimura is the Owner and Broker of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Alaska Realty. With over 40 years of residential real estate experience, she continues to be a leader in Alaska’s housing market. Most recently, she sold the highest-priced home ever recorded in the Alaska MLS.