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Ramsey real estate agents have experienced that people looking for houses in Ramsey are <br /> typically looking for large lot single family homes or townhomes. The most sought after home is <br /> one with three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Northfork is also a very popular development in <br /> Ramsey. This is a community of well kept, older homes (1990's)with acreage. <br /> Homebuyers in Ramsey expect to pay between $145,000 and $225,000 for a home. Real estate <br /> agents in the area felt the majority of the buyers look around the $150,000 to $170,000 range. <br /> Townhomes usually run $90,000 to $140,000 and new construction will be in the $300,000's. <br /> There was no question amongst real estate agents that homebuyers are able to find what they are <br /> looking for in a home in Ramsey. Homebuyers can easily find homes in their price category <br /> with the current existing for-sale home inventory. <br /> When local real estate agents were asked how Ramsey homebuyers view the Northstar commuter <br /> rail, there were various personal views. However, none of the real estate agents felt that the <br /> Northstar commuter rail was a driving force or a needed feature of people looking to buy a home <br /> in Ramsey. Personal views on the Northstar commuter rail service by the real estate agents are <br /> shown below: <br /> • Personally, it's inconvenient. For baseball games, it has a schedule, and regardless of <br /> how the game goes, the train leaves at a certain time. For the airport, it's a long ride from <br /> Ramsey! And it's a transfer to light rail, which has way too many stops and some of <br /> them are not in nice areas. <br /> • Single friends who work in the city, have looked at it as a way to get out of the city and <br /> into ownership of something affordable, but I haven't run into a lot of daily users. <br /> • Don't think a lot of people understand the service—or don't know about it. <br /> • We talk about it, it helps a little, seems like people are aware of it. <br /> When asked what makes Ramsey different from other surrounding communities, real estate <br /> agents had different ideas. One real estate agent felt that Ramsey was like an island, it got <br /> developed around, and now it has opportunities for new growth and it offers newness to <br /> homebuyers. Other real estate agents agree with the newness of the area differentiating Ramsey <br /> from adjacent communities. Others felt that it has the opportunity for new construction and there <br /> are few areas that are close to the cities with this many opportunities. Another thought was that <br /> Ramsey was a mix of rural and city, without being too far from the city, which made it different <br /> from neighboring communities. <br /> RESIDENTIAL GROWTH ESTIMATES <br /> Future housing demand in the Northstar cities is dependent on future residential growth in each <br /> city's draw area, which is the area where most of the Northstar riders live. The methodology <br /> used to estimate household growth in each of the Northstar cities for 2013 through 2035 is <br /> described in this section. <br /> 4-14 <br />