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Jim Harbaugh sets another record: In April, the former U-M head football coach sold 1125 Arlington Blvd. for $3.9 million. Observer real estate consultant Sue Maguire says the Ann Arbor Area Board of Realtors’ MLS confirms that the 10,000-square-foot mansion with six bedrooms and nine bathrooms set a new high for the Ann Arbor Public School District; the previous record holder, 2225 Belmont, went for $3.5 million in March 2022. The new owners are Alliance Franchise Brands CEO Michael Marcantonio and his wife Maggie Marcantonio, owner of the Washtenaw Veterinary Hospital.
The dinnerware collector departs: Margaret Carney, founder of the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, and her husband, William Walker Jr., sold 520 N. Main St. for $720,000, more than triple the $210,000 they paid for it in 2012. The red 1925 farmhouse-style six-bedroom, two-bath house was also the home base for the more than 9,000 dishes, cutlery, pots, and other kitchen ephemera that Carney takes on pop-up exhibits around the country. She writes on the museum’s website that they’re moving to Kingston, New York, and links to a GoFundMe to support the nonprofit’s relocation.
Wall Street Journal says A2 is Number Three—and an anomaly: The newspaper and Realtor.com ranked the 200 largest housing markets from lifestyle, affordability, and investment perspectives. The six top markets are all in the Midwest, and all but one had median home listing prices in March 2024 below $350,000. In top-ranked Rockford, Illinois, the median was just $235,000. Ann Arbor, ranked third, was very much the exception: the March median here was $525,000.
This Old House of the Month: The author of the listing for 123 Chapin St. wasn’t lying when promising that “historic character shines throughout” the 1901 blue-green saltbox on a small hill. The place has original pine floors, crown molding, built-in bookshelves, and some odd-shaped closet doors, sure, but it’s the vaulted wood ceiling in the kitchen that’s a truly rare, old-timey touch. New owners Igor Kleyner, a Trinity Health pharmacist, and Kira Alexandra Rose paid $650,000 for it, more than twice what the seller, U-M astronomy professor Oleg Gnedin, paid in 2007.
