With Anchorage's rental vacancy rate at only 2.3% as reported by the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation's annual statewide rental report, a lot of small real estate investors are picking up condos to use as rentals. The Anchorage rental market has a plethora of Continue Reading
Archives for July 2012
Some Good News for the Anchorage Real Estate Market
If you're an Anchorage home buyer looking to buy a foreclosed property, you better act now. Anchorage defaults decreased over 50% for the first six months of this year compared to 2010. In fact, the 289 recorded defaults on mortgages are the lowest in four years. In Continue Reading
Negotiating is Hard To Do
Unless you're a hermit and living somewhere in the Alaskan woods, every day life is full of negotiations--from who gets the remote (my husband watches FOX news; I watch MSNBC), where to go out to dinner (beef or seafood) or even how to proceed into an intersection when Continue Reading
Why Real Estate is Local – One Street at a time
Not long ago, I was called by a former client to provide him a fair market analysis of his home. I had sold him the home, which was brand new, some twenty years earlier. He and his wife were planning on retiring to the lower 48 in 2011. The home, which was located on an Continue Reading
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.