South Bend Home Sales: The Low End vs. The Luxury Market
I started looking at year long statistics for the South Bend Area real estate market to begin work on an end of year summary and culled a few figures interesting enough to post now. There are 472 homes listed for sale in the South Bend area for $50,000 or less. There are 470 homes listed […]
La Esperanza – Go For the Chips and Salsa
Entering La Esperanza (Spanish for “hope”), you are greeted with cheerful decor, festive Mexican music and hosts who seem to speak English as a second language. The menus and signs boast “authentic Mexican” food, a phrase that has often puzzled me. After all, should’t authentic Mexican food have to be from Mexico? I searched Google […]
WNDU Feature on New Condos in South Bend and Mishawaka
WNDU reporter Stephanie Stang put together a feature story on new condo construction in South Bend and Mishawaka that aired December 9th and 10th. Its not a primer on the condo market, but does introduce the topic to a general audience. The four minute story includes interviews with condo owner Jim Olson, Riverwalk Townhomes’ John […]
Hundreds of New Condos Near Notre Dame
Sometime in the next few days local news station WNDU is running a story about the continuing construction of condos in the South Bend Area when the number of buyers is down. Preparing for the increased interest, I scouted the progress of the condos near Notre Dame today to get a count of new units […]
South Bend Real Estate Report: November 2009
The South Bend Area MLS contains information on 245 sales that closed in November 2009. They add up to $27.48 million in sales. That is slightly higher than October 2009, though lower than November 2008. There has been speculation that the homeubuyer’s tax credit, which originally expired November 30th but has since been extended through […]