Published in Anchorage Daily News 9.18.24 By Connie Yoshimura The “Million Dollar Phenomenon” has been a stealth growth in the Anchorage residential marketplace for the past 12 months with a reported 95 MLS closed sales above $1 million. Currently, Continue Reading
Single Family vs. Duplex
Published in the Anchorage Daily News 7.10.24 By Connie Yoshimura After 28 meetings hosted by Anchorage assembly members Daniel Volland, Meg Zalatel and Anna Browley in support of their HOME initiative to bring more housing units to the MOA and after hours of public Continue Reading
Why Building 1,000 New Housing Units Will Take time and Collaboration
By Connie Yoshimura Anchorage has a long road ahead of them to reach an annual goal of 1,000 new housing units in the coming years. Over the last seven years, Anchorage has averaged only 376 permits, including single family, duplex or multi-family. Continue Reading
What Home Buyers Really Want…..Continued
Published in Anchorage Daily News on 5.15.2024 By Connie Yoshimura Housing affordability has buckled under the weight of a 30% increase in home prices, according to a National Association of Home Builders 2024 study. Here in Continue Reading
An April Fool’s Joke
Published in the Anchorage Daily News on 4.4.24 By Connie Yoshimura On April 1, 2024 there were 133 residential properties for sale (excluding condos and mobile homes) and that number is not a joke and no one is laughing, least of all the spring buyers looking for a Continue Reading
How Old Is Too OLD?
Published in Anchorage Daily News on 11.15.2023 On November 13, 2023, there were only 83 single-family homes for sale in Anchorage between $400,000-$600,000 which is considered the ‘missing middle’ in our local housing market. That number in itself is shocking for a Continue Reading
What’s Happening in the Market?
It is hard to believe but January sales in Anchorage increased by 37% when compared to January 2019. That increase was despite all concerns over the state’s economy, including job losses in the oil patch and Anchorage’s reported population loss. But, here Continue Reading
It’s Time to Increase Lot Coverage Ratios
Seventy-seven per cent of all home buyers, regardless of age or geographical location, prefer to live in a detached single family home. That percentage has consistently increased since 2003 when the National Association of Home Builders first began Continue Reading
Older Alaskans Need More Ranch Homes
Alaska’s senior population is growing. According to Alaska Economic Trends, Alaska has an estimated 87,304 seniors, up from 54,938 eight years before and more are on the way. Anchorage/Mat-Su added more than 17,000 seniors, representing over half the state’s Continue Reading
How ‘Silly’ is This?
The photo below is an example of the current required driveway width in residential single family subdivisions. According to Title 21: Land Use Planning, page 7-133, the “total width of driveway entrances to a residential lot from a street shall not exceed 40 percent Continue Reading
Connie Yoshimura, Owner/Broker of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Alaska Realty.