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Local Business Spotlight: True North Home Inspection

Kyle Hotchkiss founded True North Home Inspection in 2016 in Northern Minnesota, serving St. Louis, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and Cook...

buying property

Questions on Floodplains

Minnesota is known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes and with that comes the potential for flooding. If you are...

floodplain, lakeshore

buying property

Reasons Buyers Are Losing out on Homes

There’s no doubt this is a difficult environment for buyers. With low inventory and high demand, buyers have few options...

buying property sellers

Code of Ethics

Did you know Realtors are obligated to follow a pretty lengthy Code of Ethics? This helps to bring integrity and...

property taxes

Property Taxes and Assessed Value

How does the Assessor determine your property value? It's property tax assessment letter season. And, this year, many homeowners in...

sellers

How Much Money will You get when You Sell Your Property?

Considering selling your home, hunting land, lake cabin or recreational property? If so, you are probably wondering how much money...

sellers

Why Low Inventory is a Win for Sellers

The number of houses, lake homes and recreational property for for sale today is significantly lower than the high buyer...

sellers

One Time Showing Agreement

What is a One Time Showing Contract? A “one-time showing agreement” or a Showing and Commission Agreement is a commission...

loans

Seller Pay Closing Costs

Asking the Seller to Pay for the Buyer's Loan Closing Costs?Throughout Minnesota it is common for the buyer to ask...

covid-19

Welcome 2021!

All of use at BIC Realty are looking forward to 2021! Our goal is to provide amazing customer service to...

covid-19

COVID-19: Buying and Selling Property

You might think that now is not the best time to sell your property. For some people maybe not, but...

market update

First Quarter 2020 Lake Vermilion Market Update

The first quarter for real estate sales of Lake Vermilion homes and cabins was very similar to last year. Here...

covid-19

Covid-19 and Buying and Selling Real Estate

Due to the public health concerns of COVID-19 and the Governor issued ‘stay at home’ order, our office will be...

vacation rentals

Vacation Rentals

Effective Feb 25, 2020, St. Louis County board adopted amendments to Zoning Ordinance 62 regulating short term rentals. The St....

property taxes

Property Tax Changes

St. Louis County has published a map of changes made to property values in 2019 based on property sales. Most...

loans

Which Loan is Right for You?

Did you know there are a variety of different loans available to you for buying your home? Following is a...

loans

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New Rules for St. Louis County

Today some of our realtors attended a educational lunch session with St. Louis County. In that session the County discussed...