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Archives for March 2016

How to Price Your Home for Sale

March 26, 2016 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

According to the latest statewide MLS statistics, homes sell within 98.04% of their current asking price and within 95.90%  of their original asking price.  How your home is priced when the for sale sign goes up plays an important role in the number of showings and how Continue Reading

Anchorage Builders ‘Feel the Burn’ of the New Title 21

March 20, 2016 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

According to the Municipality’s own assessment, Anchorage annually needs 909 new housing units which include multi-family, duplex, and single-family. Since 2008, when they began the needs assessment, Anchorage has fallen far short on meeting the acknowledged goal, and this Continue Reading

Why 2016 is Not Like 1986

March 13, 2016 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

There’s been lots of talk from a wide variety of experts about the demise of the housing market in 2016 and comparing it to the real estate crash of 1986. But, there’s one important difference that everyone seems to have forgotten. In 1986 mortgage interest rates were 10.19 Continue Reading

What Can You Buy for $500,000?

March 10, 2016 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

It’s a big number—half a million dollars! Yet, in 2015, one hundred and forty-nine home buyers took the leap and bought homes in Anchorage between $450,000 and $500,000. So what did they get for half a million? Homes in this price point almost always have four bedrooms, 2.5 Continue Reading

Should You Buy a Second Toaster?

March 6, 2016 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

Every time I take a break from real estate and head to the island of Kauai and Poipu Beach, I end up thinking about buying a second home at the end of the road of Paradise, or at least one of those almost historic ranch homes in the little town of Waimea. That, however, Continue Reading

How to Get What You Want in a New Home

March 3, 2016 by Connie Yoshimura 1 Comment

All across the nation (and Alaska being no exception), buyers are demanding extras, upgrades, and changes to stock housing plans that have been the mainstay of builders profitability for the past twenty years. In the financial uncertainty of homebuilding, repeating a plan Continue Reading

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Connie Yoshimura

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.
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