Weekend Weed Out

 Madison Real Estate News Week In Review

Things are starting to come together around The Gardyn. We still have some seeding, planting, and weeding to do, but we are almost ready to fully launch. Besides the NY Times article about real estate in our fine city here is the news that may or may not have anything to do with Madison real estate.

 The Capital Times

It’s a smaller parade, but the floats are as fancy as ever. This year’s Parade of Homes features just 21 homes, the first time under 30 in more than a decade and the fewest since 1982, but they’re as big and stylish as ever.

 

Wisconsin State Journal

Oregon’s decision two weeks ago to freeze residential annexations is the most drastic governmental response Jeff Miller has heard of to Dane County’s softening real-estate market.

Letter From Here

What’s not to like? Even in the dark, Kennedy Point is a good looking building. A variety of color schemes, ornamentation patterns and footprints attractively break up the mass of this 42-unit condominium development and help it harmonize with the scale of the neighborhood.

The Capital Times

Boosted by high-performing hospitals, Wisconsin is ranked first in the nation in health care quality by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.Wisconsin’s overall rating of 65.76 was followed by Minnesota with 62.77.

Marginal Utility

In short, the basis for our selection into a conventional listing had a lot to do with the factoid that I was very busy, we had one toddler in the house, and Julia was along the way. Our sample experience was that we sold for exactly the price we’d have sought via FSBO.

And now introducing a new item to the Weekend Weed Out, the Rose of the Week. The Rose will be in our opinion the best post or our favorite post or the most informative post or the most controversial post or…..The Rose will be the Rose just because. Ok? So here is our first Gardyn Rose:

Ann Althouse

So Madison is special — don’t we know? — because of FSBOMadison.com and because of our “highly educates and liberal” “antiestablishment” culture. Does that make us resist professional help and think we can do better? Personally, I just can’t picture myself interacting with all manner of strangers and ushering them around my house.