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Real Estate
June 2026 Ann Arbor Home Sales
Bathrooms, gardens, a tri-level deck, and unfinished projects.
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The Concordia Curveball
There were at least two reasons why U-M’s $60 million deal to buy Concordia University’s Geddes Rd. campus rankled city hall.
Read MoreMay 2026 Ann Arbor Home Sales
One house is a ten; another was owned for a century; and a third is ready for anything.
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Beyond Roommates
Sarah Russman’s daughter will leave their home in Ann Arbor this fall to embark on her freshman year of college and the new experience of shared living in a dorm room. Meanwhile, Russman is themself getting ready for a new shared-living experience, under a program that aims to address housing affordability and the challenges for older adults living alone.
Read MoreApril 2026 Ann Arbor Home Sales
A dean’s designs, turn-of-the-century homes, appearances can be deceiving, and railroad-side living.
Read MoreMarch 2026 Ann Arbor Home Sales
Going up: Ranch houses are usually defined by low lines and modest profiles, but two 1950s ranches that sold this month rise above the average—literally.
Read MoreFebruary 2026 Ann Arbor Home Sales
A Samuel Stanton design, a small house with tiny-house vibes, an Amish-built barn, and a country estate off Washtenaw Ave.
Read MoreJanuary 2026 Ann Arbor Home Sales
The two-story brick house at 1411 Iroquois, which sold for $980,000, is in the Woodbury neighborhood, often described as “Burns Park adjacent.” Built in 1939, the house dates to the forty-five year period when the U-M Botanical Gardens were situated off Iroquois.
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Townie Homes
The Zillow listings seem too good to be true: A 2-bed, 2-bath, 800-square-foot house on S. Maple for $125,000. A 3-bed, 3-bath 1,372-square-foot townhome on S. Wagner for $225,000. A 3-bed, 2-bath, 1,232-square-foot home on Jewett for $325,000.
Read MoreDecember 2025 Ann Arbor Home Sales
Located on the Old West Side, a classic 1920s workman’s cottage, which sold for $535,000, is part of a distinctive neighborhood project.
Read MoreNovember 2025 Ann Arbor Home Sales
You build me up: This month saw an unusual number of sales—at least five—of homes that were either rebuilt or so substantially renovated as to qualify as new construction.
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Squeezed Out
The Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation 2025 Washtenaw County Housing Study revealed what Ann Arbor’s working class has long known: if you make less than $50,000, you can’t afford to live here.
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HERD Mentality
“I’m so glad you asked about HERD,” Ann Arbor’s Home Energy Rating Disclosure Ordinance, says Julie Roth, energy manager for the city’s Office of Sustainability and Innovations. “It’s safe to say that Ann Arbor has one of the most robust residential consumer protection programs in the country.”
Read MoreOctober 2025 Ann Arbor Home Sales
A star builder sells his prototype for $1.25M: In 2004, up-and-coming developer-architect Tom Fitzsimmons bought a pre-WWII house at 637 N. Fourth Ave. for $299,000 and demolished it. In its place he put up a two-unit two-story Colonial-style duplex with ground-floor parking and garage elevators to each spacious, full-floor condo.
Read MoreSeptember 2025 Ann Arbor Home Sales
Our eagle-eyed real estate consultant, Sue Maguire, noticed quite a few properties on the market for longer than usual. Her hunch was correct; her research found the total number of days on market (DOM) in the AAPS area from list to under contract in September 2025 was thirty-six, up from twenty-four in September 2024.
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A Farm in Dexter
Amy Ramsey watches the sun rise over her neighbor’s field every morning. She’s up before dawn, a strong cup of coffee in hand, ready to open her barns and feed her animals. Wild Apple Farms is named for the centuries-old apple trees scattered across the property, and Ramsey strives to live in harmony with the land, respecting the rhythm of the year. “There’s a feeling of peace and contentment that doesn’t exist anywhere else,” she says. “If you pause to pay attention, you can smell the seasons changing.”
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A Woodshop in Chelsea
On a September morning, Susan Kizer opens the door to the cheerfully cluttered brick carriage house behind her Main St. home. There’s a light layer of sawdust on her work tables, and wood of all varieties—from South American purpleheart to a maple burl she discovered in an antique shop—surrounds her. Anchoring the space is “Tinkerbell”—her nickname for the 750-pound lathe she uses to create her one-of-a-kind wood pieces.
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A Classroom in Saline
Stomping, clapping, and chanting—“Kona, Kona, Kona!”—thundered from the two front rows of the bleachers. The family, friends, and students of fifth-grade teacher Kaylee Harmon’s eight-year-old Shepherd mix cheered on the winner out of five canine contenders in Saline Community Fair’s Fifth Annual Dog of the Year Contest. Kona took home a first-place blue ribbon, plaque, and $150 gift card from Saline’s Tractor Supply Co.
Read MoreAugust 2025 Ann Arbor Home Sales
University Commons’ first $1 million sale: Praxis Properties CEO Bill Kinley sold his 3,500-square-foot, three-bed, three-bath unit for $1,040,000, a record for the complex of ninety-two condos built in 2000.
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