Minnetonka MN Real Estate

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Buy a Home Here and Your Kids Might Get Smart!

The pride and joy of this community is the Minnetonka School District (ISD 276.) In fact, all of this parental button-bursting pride is well deserved. The quality of a local school district is an excellent index of the leadership priorities, parental involvement, and general quality of life in a community. The local school district accomplishments exemplify the leadership priorities, parental involvement, and high quality of life here!

The accolades for this district just keep rolling in! Get out the marching band! Wait.. get out the school choir! Recently eleven Minnetonka students were selected for the Minnesota State Honors Choir. They certainly have plenty to sing about! Minnetonka academic achievement is tops by any standard you could choose. For example, the district’s composite ACT score for 2006 is a jaw-dropping 24.5! Compare that to the Minnesota average score of 22.3 and the USA average of 21.1. This was the highest score in 2006 for all of the schools reporting their results to Schoolhouse Magazine. Minnetonka students consistently earn state and national awards in composition, foreign languages, Quiz Bowl, Science Olympiad, and art. Drama gets the highest state ratings! The district also gets outstanding ratings for architecture, band, choir, ensemble music and just about every other subject except recess! Six out of the district’s nine schools were awarded the state’s Five Star ratings for reading and math. The rest of the schools received at least Four Stars in each area. District 276 athletes get plenty of state titles in most sports.

Muskellunge pike abound in record numbers in Lake Minnetonka!

More about the City of Minnetonka

Located in Hennepin County, this suburb is a fully developed community only 8 miles west of Minneapolis. About 24% of the residents work in Minnetonka, but the strategic location along the western arm of the 494 loop makes an easy commute for everyone else. The MSP International Airport is only about 25 minutes away. With over 51,000 residents and about 21,393 households, this is the 14th largest city in the state.

Minnetonka hosts a vibrant community, including a huge shopping complex called Ridgedale Mall, and an usually mixed business development called Opus Center. Opus Center contains both offices, light industrial facilities, and hotel buildings. Many major national companies keep there headquarters here, including Cargill Inc. and Carlson Companies. Minnetonka home owners appreciate the strong commercial tax base here.

Minnetonka MN Real Estate

A city of this size almost always can boast a wide variety of home-buying opportunites. A snapshot of all Minnetonka Minnesota MLS listings will show about 239 single family homes for sale, at an average asking price of $651,207, and an average square footage of 3,161. If you are a first-time homebuyer, you can choose from plenty of homes that are affordably priced under 300K. Today’s historic low interest rates and large inventory of Minnetonka homes for sale may make this one of the best home buyer markets you will ever see! If you are a move-up buyer looking to upgrade to your dream home, this is your chance. Minnetonka townhome inventory is at record-breaking levels, and there are great prices for condos, all-one-level townhomes, detached townhomes, twin homes, quads, and European style row houses. But a market like this won’t last forever. Demographic trends indicate that the demand for town homes will skyrocket as the population ages.

Minnetonka Luxury Homes

If you are a move-up buyer looking to upgrade to your dream home, this is your big chance too. Besides the good rates, the real savings will be seen on the purchase price of upper end homes. Use this opportunity to leverage your current equity into a much larger house.

Because this is a fully developed community, the choices for brand new home construction in Minnetonka are very limited. There are some very large >luxury homes in the $3M area being built in private wooded lots near Glen Lake and also in an area about a mile south of Ridgedale. Some of the best construction opportunities might not yet be on the Minnetonka MLS. I know the builders in the area, and I know who the good ones are. I know who the shoddy ones are. I know what quality construction looks like. Call me at 612-220-6488 to benefit from my experience with Minnetonka new home construction.

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There are also some upscale homes in established neighborhoods that reflect pride in ownership and fine taste. I am familiar with these neighborhoods. I can show you the finest executive Minnetonka homes in distinctive neighborhoods like Bent Tree, Cedar Pass, Cityview Heights, Groveland Place, Linner Woods, Marshes of Meadowwoods, Portico, Tapestry Woods, Walden Hills, and Williston Glen. Because each Minnetonka luxury home is so unique, it can be difficult to establish value, unless you know the the market and the neighborhoods. Call me to get my critical eye, candid opinion of value, and experience with representing buyers like yourself. Keep in mind that the builder’s agent or the listing agent is representing the seller. I will dig up background information about the builder, the neighborhood, and re-sale history that will probably not be offered by the listing agent.

Homes on Lake Minnetonka

Although the city was named after the lake, all of its lakeshore is found encompassing a relatively small bay on the east end called Gray’s Bay. Gray’s Bay is rather shallow, the majority of it is littoral, and the maximum depth is about 25 feet. The lake has some milfoil in it. But the fish don’t mind the weeds at all. The north end of Gray’s Bay and the east end near Gray’s Bay dam are loaded with good sized panfish, and you can easily catch them with waxworms on a small jig.

Try trolling for Minnetonka lake homes on Gray’s Bay with an earnest check, and a good high-test pre-approval letter. With a bit of luck and some help from your guide (me) you just might snag a nice big 6000 square foot lunker on the penninsula. The season is open all year, but call me to find out what time of year these lunkers bite the hardest.

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The purchase of your next home might well be your most important investment. Don’t leave it up to chance. Don’t make your decision on based gimmick “discounts” by builders or slick advertising by listing agents. Remember, those mls data sheets they give you are just glorified marketing pieces with an official look to them. They can be helpful, but they might not give you the whole picture. Get some help so you can “eat the hay and spit out the sticks!”

If you are selling, get a professional, candid opinion of price by calling me at 612-220-6488 for a free market analysis. I will give you the straight data, and show you a solid marketing plan that has worked for hundreds of sellers in this area. There is no cost or obligation!

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