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The ‘Heart’ of the Home

February 17, 2013 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

     The International Builder's Show in Las Vegas was brimming full of ideas for new designs and amenities. How much of that can be incorporated into Alaska home building is an open question, but there are some trends that just won't go away that local builders should pay Continue Reading

Insider Column on Alaskan Real Estate – Tips for Selling Your Home

January 17, 2013 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

     Welcome to my "insider" column on real estate where I'm going to share my thoughts and ideas with you in hopefully what will be an informative and frank discussion about real estate in Alaska. So how come it is that two homes with the same floor plan and square footage Continue Reading

Anchorage, Alaska Real Estate Market Conditions

October 2, 2012 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

     The lower 48 is full of real estate headlines about how the housing market has finally bottomed out. But, that's old news for Alaskans who recognized that turnaround earlier this year. This past August there were only 986 homes for sale in the Municipality of Anchorage. Continue Reading

How to Buy a Home that Doesn’t Exist

August 1, 2012 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

     With spring inventory down to only 445 single family homes for sale in Anchorage and only 28 new building permits issued for the first two months of 2012, it's an understatement to say that local home buyers are frustrated.  This is particularly true since much of the Continue Reading

Market Update

July 19, 2012 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

     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

Some Good News for the Anchorage Real Estate Market

July 16, 2012 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

     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

July 9, 2012 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

     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

July 2, 2012 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

     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

Why Buying a Brand New Home is Like Buying Groceries or Gas

June 29, 2012 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

When you’re standing in the check out line with a cart full of groceries, you understand you’re going to pay the price that gets rung up on the cash register. The same is true when you’re at the gas pump. Unfortunately, there is a tremendous misconception in the real Continue Reading

How Land Use Regulations Affect Property Values

June 25, 2012 by Connie Yoshimura Leave a Comment

Most of you have heard by now that we are soon to have a new Title 21, the ordinance dealing with the municipality’s land use regulations. All of the chapters except Chapter 14 which deals with definitions have been provisionally adopted by the Anchorage Assembly. Just 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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