Broadway Block
Northside Grill owner Jim Koli has seen a lot of changes in his neighborhood since he opened...
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Real Estate
My Chelsea Neighborhood
“It is a surprise even to folks who live in Chelsea,” Jennifer Kundak emails of the forty-five or...
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My Dexter Neighborhood
When Katherine Becker was a teenager, her family moved to a house off North Territorial Rd. It was...
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Berm House
Jim and Becky Cavnar built an “earth-sheltered” home on Miner St. in 1981, the same year that...
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Home at Last
For the first time ever, Veronica Brandon’s three teenagers each have their own rooms. As a...
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Down on Main Street
In a 1959 Ann Arbor News photo, the 100 block of S. Main St. is a kaleidoscope of storefronts and...
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Walden in Pittsfield
According to Realtor.com, 4533 Carpenter Rd. was on the market for more than four years. From the...
Read MoreAffordable Geddes Lake
A scant 115 transfers make it onto our map from January and a few from December that weren’t recorded in time for last month’s map. Five of these went for more than $1 million, led by 5333 Pleasant Lake Rd. in Lodi...
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Fear of 48197
“Who among us has not been disappointed with the Postal Service when our mail was not...
Read MorePulte leads a wave of new construction in Pittsfield.
There are 171 homes on this month’s map, including property transfers that were filed in December and a few from November that hadn’t yet been recorded when we prepared last month’s map. Forty-seven of the...
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Amazon in Pittsfield
For decades, developers have eyed a sixty-acre site on Carpenter Rd. in Pittsfield–one of...
Read MoreHome Appreciation Trends
Home appreciation in Washtenaw County mirrors national trends. According to information from the Ann Arbor Area Board of Realtors, the median price for a single-family home in the county in the first eleven months of 2021 was...
Read MoreHomes under $300,000 still outnumber those over $1 million, but it’s getting close.
Just ten of those comparatively affordable homes appear on this month’s map, all but two of them in the city of Ann Arbor. As usual, the least expensive homes cluster in the city’s southeast quadrant. In Stoneybrook (formally...
Read MoreMillion-dollar Sales Continue
Million-dollar sales just keep coming, with eight on this month’s map. In Ann Arbor Hills, 2997 Devonshire—which includes an adjacent lot on Hickory—tops the list at $1.8 million; it led 2106 Londonderry, a few blocks...
Read MoreFine Finishes in Middle-Class Neighborhoods
“There’s a market for finer finishes and amenities even in traditionally middle-class neighborhoods. On this month’s map, 2740 Manchester sold for $513,230, or $78,230 over its asking price of $435,000. It was the...
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My Neighborhood: Lawton
“For more than twenty years, we lived in a house off Newport Creek that was more than 3,000...
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My Neighborhood: Mitchell
In 1965, when Toronto-born Esther Rubin and her husband moved into Colonial Square, a cooperative...
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My Neighborhood: Thurston
Robert Glassman remembers the year he met Jennie Lieberman: it was 2003, and soon they were...
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My Neighborhood: Dicken
Vernon Downs, the 411-home subdivision on the city’s far west side south of Stadium and...
Read MoreSingle-family, Condo Sales Increase
There are 298 homes on this month’s map, up from 228 in July 2020. That’s partly because we’re casting a wider net this year: in January, we started going back to capture property transfers that missed the...
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