• Last Updated: 05/15/2008

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Count of Location by Location

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The Roper Center has put together a web page on public opinion regarding this and historical election issues. It's called US Presidential Election 2008 and includes charts and tables on topics such as the war in Iraq and whether people would vote for a candidate who was female of any race or an African-American man.

The Minneapolis Area Association of REALTORS® has released "Foreclosures and Short Sales in the Twin Cities Housing Market," a special new research report that attempts to answer some of the more pressing questions surrounding lender-mediated properties. Includes an analysis of current inventory, new listings, closed sales, sales prices, and the impact that the growth of lender-mediated properties is having on each trend.

The data was gathered and analyzed by MAAR staff in collaboration with Aaron Dickinson, REALTOR® member with Edina Realty, and utilizes a new data approach based upon information from the NorthstarMLS system.

To share comments or questions on this new report, please contact Jeff Allen, MAAR Research Manager, at jeffa@mplsrealtor.com or Aaron Dickinson at aarondickinson@edinarealty.com.

Thanks to our Journalism, Film and Mass Communications Librarian, Johan Oberg (oberg091 at umn dot edu), you can find sources of current and historical newspaper circulation statistics compiled at http://www.lib.umn.edu/journalism/circulation.phtml.

Census Bureau facing huge cost increase, possible delays in 2010 effort (3/5/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors' produced report on home sales activity in the metropolitan area over the last year. Includes summaries of 2001-present for sales, values by county, city and neighborhood and some maps. See Residential Real Estate Activity Report