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Home - Buying Services & Real Estate Market Trends |
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Attorney general's consumer division
This office works on behalf of consumers to ensure that state trade regulations and consumer laws are enforced. Mediators are available to negotiate between a consumer and a company. |
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Better Business Bureau
The bureau is a private, nonprofit organization that provides services and programs to assist consumers and businesses. The bureau might be able to provide a home buyer, seller, renter or builder with information about a company's performance. |
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Bloomberg
Up to the minute Financial news you can use |
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Builders Association of the Twin Cities
The association provides information about available building lots, new homes and remodeling. |
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Carver County Housing and Redevelopment Authority
The HRA provides referrals and information on the Section 8 rental-assistance program in Carver County. |
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Center For Energy and Environment
CEE is an independent, nonprofit organization that offers various energy-conservation programs on behalf of utilities and public agencies. |
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Central Community Housing Trust of Minneapolis
CCHT is a nonprofit provider of safe, affordable housing in the central neighborhoods of Minneapolis. |
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Children's Home Society & Family Services Inc. of St. Paul
Through its five community-based affiliates, the organization provides mortgage counseling and education to help low- and moderate-income people become homeowners in Minneapolis and St. Paul. |
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CommonBond Communities
This nonprofit company builds, renovates and manages rental apartments and townhouses throughout the metro area. For information about locations and vacancies, call 651-291-1750; for information about new housing developments, call 651-290-6228. |
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Community Action Partnership for Suburban Hennepin
This free, nonprofit housing agency provides services for current and prospective homeowners. |
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Community Associations Institute
CAI can help with questions about condominium, co-op or homeowners associations. Publications available through CAI include information on legal matters, financial management, transition, insurance, maintenance and architectural control. |
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Community Mediation Programs
The Minnesota Association of Community Mediation Programs offers mediation services for a variety of disputes, including issues between tenants and between landlords and tenants. |
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Dakota County Community Development Agency
This agency offers first-time-buyer mortgages and down-payment and closing-cost assistance, when available, for new or existing homes in the county. |
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Dayton's Bluff Neighborhood Housing Services
This agency builds and rehabilitates single-family homes and provides entry-cost assistance and low-interest home-improvement loans to people in the Dayton's Bluff and Payne-Phalen neighborhoods with financing from local lenders, government programs |
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Department of Commerce
The department's Division of Enforcement and Licensing investigates complaints about lenders, real estate agents, appraisers, insurance adjusters and agents and residential building contractors. |
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Greater Minneapolis Metropolitan Housing Corp.
This nonprofit developer works with the Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development Agency and the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency to build homes for low- or moderate-income buyers. |
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Housing Link
This free, nonprofit service provides information and access to affordable rental housing throughout the metro area. The agency maintains directories of affordable housing properties and programs, listings of vacancies and a referral service for people |
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Housing Predictor
Provides state by state predictions of housing market trends. |
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Macro Markets
Home to the Case Shiller Price Index. Market data on house prices and graphical representation of trends in the housing market over the past 5 years |
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Minnesota Housing Finance Agency
Find rates on the Minnesota Mortgage and CASA program and links to homestretch classes in your area. |
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Mortgage Bankers Association of America
The best source of information on the mortgage industry and education available to those in the mortgage industry |
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Mortgage Implodometer
Keeps track of all of the mortgage companies that have and are failing around the country |
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National Association of Realtors
NAR's main site; great research on the real estate markets |
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Yahoo on Foreclosures
What are the various types of foreclosures and how you can buy pre-foreclosure, at auction and bank owned properties. |
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