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06/14/2026

The Best Spots for Old homes in the Twin Cities

A lot of people move to the Twin Cities wanting an old home. Not old for the sake of old. Well kept, full of original character, the kind of place that still has its woodwork and its soul. But those don't turn up just anywhere.

That's the whole idea behind this one. Plenty of neighborhoods have old houses. What's rarer is old houses where the character actually survived, where landlords and flippers didn't strip the floors, the trim, and the built-ins to save a buck. So this is a map of the Minneapolis and Saint Paul neighborhoods where you're genuinely likely to find the real thing, across a pretty wide range of budgets.

A lot of people land here set on Minneapolis and never put Saint Paul on the radar, then we show them somewhere like Macalester-Groveland and the whole plan changes. We tried to cover both cities and both ends of the spectrum, from approachable bungalows in the four hundreds to proper historic mansions on the show-off parkways. We show these homes constantly, so this is less a roundup and more where we'd actually point you.

The right old house in the right neighborhood is the kind of thing people will wait years for. These are the streets worth the wait.

00:00 The old homes people actually want
00:55 Summit Hill
02:48 Cathedral Hill
05:12 Macalester-Groveland
10:32 Highland Park
12:22 Saint Anthony Park
13:29 Lowry Hill
15:54 Kenwood
18:28 Cedar-Isles-Dean
20:56 Kingfield
25:58 East Harriet
28:24 Tangletown
30:52 Lynnhurst
33:36 Hale
35:45 Northrop
37:14 Keewaydin
39:24 Howe and West River Parkway
42:19 Cooper
44:21 Victory

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06/13/2026

Some vibes from a recent day trip to Duluth on the YouTube channel! It might be a bit far for a lot of people, but a day trip to Duluth always does me good.

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06/07/2026

The Saint Croix River Valley is already rated pretty highly. A lot of people know it's nice. I still think it's underrated, and to me that gap is the whole reason this one was worth making.

It runs from Marine on Saint Croix in the north down to Afton in the south, and I threw in a few spots that aren't technically the river valley but feel like they belong to it. Lake Elmo, Grant, Denmark Township. Same prairie, same rolling hills, same huge lots. Grant has a ten acre minimum. A lot of it honestly feels like Dances With Wolves.

What ties it together is the old-school downtowns and natural beauty doing most of the talking. Stillwater is the one of one, the historic hub of the whole valley. Marine on Saint Croix is tiny and cozy and started as a lumber mill town. Afton barely shows up in the relocation conversation, and the aspirational homes sitting on land out there are something else.

The real question underneath all of it is who this area is actually for. If you want the cosmopolitan, high-society, top-school-district life, that's the Western Metro. If you prioritize land, privacy, and a scenic river you can actually travel on over that social cluster, the valley is almost impossible to beat. You also tend to get more land for less money out here than you would out west, especially once you factor in the lot sizes.

Minnesota in the spring out here is a movie. Pretty hard to beat.

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The Saint Croix River Valley is already rated pretty highly. A lot ...

05/24/2026

This is part of our development series, where we break down everything new coming to cities across Minnesota, the good and the messy both. And Eagan might be the most interesting case study we've got, because no suburb in the Twin Cities metro got hit harder by the post-Covid office exodus.

Thomson Reuters, Blue Cross, Delta Dental, Unisys, all downsized or left. More than 2,000,000 square feet of office space went vacant. That's the part most people remember. This video is about what came next.

Because Eagan didn't sit around waiting for those offices to refill. The old Thomson Reuters site is now Project Nova, a $52 million Amazon bet you can see from a mile away. Solventum, a Fortune 500 company spun out of 3M, just opened its doors here. Ecolab is putting its largest-ever Minnesota expansion into the city. And the Wilf family, the owners of the Vikings, are nearly finished building an entire neighborhood out at Viking Lakes.

We get into the projects, the green space fights, the tree-removal pushback, the data centers nobody asked about, and the honest mixed bag of opinions on all of it. We also get into why this matters if you're relocating, because some of this stuff moves fast enough that Google Earth hasn't caught up, and what's behind the house you're looking at is the kind of thing our team is always trying to lay eyes on.

Eagan was never the luxury suburb. It was always the workhorse. And what's happening here right now is the clearest proof in the metro that a workhorse can take a real hit and come back stronger. Eagan dealt with Covid. Now you get to see what it was building toward.

Chapters
0:00 What used to be here
0:39 Getting to know Eagan
2:35 The office exodus that hit hardest
3:32 Project Nova and the Amazon bet
8:20 The pushback, the trees, the mixed bag
9:48 What this means if you're relocating
11:05 Solventum lands in Eagan
12:49 Ecolab's biggest Minnesota expansion
15:46 Viking Lakes
18:24 Why Eagan is a suburban powerhouse

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This is part of our development series, where we break down everything new coming to cities across Minnesota, the good and the messy both. And Eagan might be...

05/10/2026

A century ago, Henry Ford built a plant in Saint Paul that employed generations of families. Nine million vehicles rolled off that lot. It closed in 2011, sat empty for years, and is now becoming something completely new.

Highland Bridge. 122 acres. 3,800 housing units, over 55 acres of parks, single family homes along the Mississippi, townhomes, retail, and a stormwater system that feeds the river.

A neighborhood being added to a neighborhood. Pretty cool moment in the history of Saint Paul.

We released the first video in a new series on our YouTube! We’re taking a super in-depth look at the future of the Twin Cities.

05/03/2026

Saint Paul has this reputation for being the quieter, more conservative, more boring half of the Twin Cities. The unofficial city slogan is literally "Keep Saint Paul Boring." But if you actually look at what's happening on the ground right now, there's billions of dollars in development reshaping huge parts of the city, and if even half of it lands the way it's planned, Saint Paul is going to look almost nothing like it does today within the next decade.

In this video I'm walking through the three biggest transformations underway: Highland Bridge (the 122 acre redevelopment of the old Ford plant in Highland Park), the Allianz Field District at Snelling and University (Bill McGuire's 15 minute city vision around the Minnesota United stadium), and the massive billion dollar push to finally make downtown Saint Paul and its riverfront something people actually want to live in and visit. We're getting into the wins, the delays, the rent control fight that paused construction, the Reddit and neighborhood pushback on density, the lawsuits, and the projects still on paper.

All B-roll in this video was shot by our team specifically for this video. Recent footage, real progress, no stock.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Saint Paul Could Be Unrecognizable
00:40 Highland Bridge: The Old Ford Plant Reborn
03:51 The Custom Home Lots on the Mississippi Bluff
07:21 Highland Bridge Amenities, Parks, and the Water Feature
11:02 The Tension: Density Pushback, Rent Control, and Delays
17:23 United Village and the Allianz Field District
20:09 The Snelling and University Traffic Reality
21:14 What's Actually Being Built Around the Stadium
26:06 Sentiment, Skepticism, and the CVS Coming Down
30:17 Downtown Saint Paul: The Office to Housing Conversions
36:42 Saint Paul's Riverfront and the High Line Plan
39:42 The River's Edge Project
42:48 The Riverwalk, the Science Museum, and What's Next

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04/27/2026

Where The Wealthy Build their DREAM HOME in Minnesota

If you're moving to the Twin Cities and the plan is to build a dream home or buy something on the luxury end, where you put it matters more than almost anything else. The metro is huge, but the number of spots that actually support a true luxury build or high end resale is honestly pretty small. Pick the wrong area and you've made a resale mistake. Pick the right one and the home holds its value, fits the lifestyle you're actually after, and drops you into a community of people doing the same thing.

This is the most thorough breakdown on the internet of where to focus if you're buying or building luxury in the Twin Cities. We're hitting 13 areas (plus a couple honorable mentions) across Minneapolis, Saint Paul, the East metro, the Southwest metro, and the whole Lake Minnetonka region. For each one I'm walking through median home prices, new construction price points, drive times to downtown Minneapolis, downtown Saint Paul, and MSP, the school districts and how they rank, and what the lifestyle actually feels like.

Areas covered: luxury condos in Downtown Minneapolis (Downtown East and the North Loop), Linden Hills, Edina, Mendota Heights, Dellwood and Mahtomedi, Lake Elmo, Stillwater, Credit River, Excelsior, Wayzata, Medina, and Independence, with an honorable mention to Prior Lake.

One thing worth saying upfront: every bit of B-roll in this video is recent and we shot it ourselves. No stock footage, no recycled clips from five years ago. What you're seeing on screen is the actual area we're talking about.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 The Right Place Matters
01:10 How We Make These Videos
02:29 Downtown Minneapolis Luxury Condos
06:34 Linden Hills, Minneapolis
13:17 Edina
22:00 Mendota Heights
25:44 Dellwood
28:12 Mahtomedi
31:20 Lake Elmo
35:37 Stillwater
38:20 Credit River
42:18 Prior Lake (Honorable Mention)
42:38 The Lake Minnetonka Region
45:32 Excelsior
48:44 Wayzata
53:04 Medina
56:23 Independence

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Where The Wealthy Build their DREAM HOME in Minnesota

04/24/2026

Is it official? It’s definitely spring and won’t ever be fake winter again, until winter? Seems like it!

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04/18/2026

Como Conservatory. When you need a warm, humid, green space any time of year in Minnesota. Forever a port in a storm.

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