Real Estate

My Chelsea Neighborhood

May 4, 2022 | Community, My Neighborhood |

“It is a surprise even to folks who live in Chelsea,” Jennifer Kundak emails of the forty-five or...

My Dexter Neighborhood

May 4, 2022 | Community, My Neighborhood |

When Katherine Becker was a teenager, her family moved to a house off North Territorial Rd. It was...

Berm House

Apr 25, 2022 | Community, Real Estate |

Jim and Becky Cavnar built an “earth-sheltered” home on Miner St. in 1981, the same year that...

Home at Last

Apr 25, 2022 | Culture, Featured, News, Real Estate |

For the first time ever, Veronica Brandon’s three teenagers each have their own rooms. As a...

Down on Main Street

Mar 28, 2022 | Business, Featured, News, Real Estate |

In a 1959 Ann Arbor News photo, the 100 block of S. Main St. is a kaleidoscope of storefronts and...

Walden in Pittsfield

Feb 17, 2022 | Business, Environment, Real Estate |

According to Realtor.com, 4533 Carpenter Rd. was on the market for more than four years. From the...

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...

Fear of 48197

Jan 20, 2022 | Community, Real Estate |

“Who among us has not been disappointed with the Postal Service when our mail was not...

Pulte leads a wave of new construction in Pittsfield.

Jan 20, 2022 | Real Estate |

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...

Amazon in Pittsfield

Dec 17, 2021 | Business, Government, Real Estate |

For decades, developers have eyed a sixty-acre site on Carpenter Rd. in Pittsfield–one of...

Home Appreciation Trends

Dec 17, 2021 | Real Estate |

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...

Homes under $300,000 still outnumber those over $1 million, but it’s getting close.

Nov 22, 2021 | Real Estate |

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...

Million-dollar Sales Continue

Oct 20, 2021 | Marketplace, Real Estate |

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...

Fine Finishes in Middle-Class Neighborhoods

Sep 20, 2021 | Real Estate |

“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...

My Neighborhood: Lawton

Sep 17, 2021 | Community, My Neighborhood, Real Estate |

“For more than twenty years, we lived in a house off Newport Creek that was more than 3,000...

My Neighborhood: Mitchell

Sep 15, 2021 | Community, My Neighborhood, Real Estate |

In 1965, when Toronto-born Esther Rubin and her husband moved into Colonial Square, a cooperative...

My Neighborhood: Thurston

Sep 14, 2021 | Community, My Neighborhood, Real Estate |

Robert Glassman remembers the year he met Jennie Lieberman: it was 2003, and soon they were...

My Neighborhood: Dicken

Sep 13, 2021 | Community, My Neighborhood, Real Estate |

Vernon Downs, the 411-home subdivision on the city’s far west side south of Stadium and...

Single-family, Condo Sales Increase

Sep 11, 2021 | Real Estate |

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...