Real Estate
A Pioneering Downtown Loft, Puzzling Exits on Primrose, and a Mayoral Legacy
May 24, 2025 | Community, Real Estate |
A two-floor, 2-bedroom, 2.5-bath spread in the Heinrich Building at 111 S. Fourth Ave. changed hands last month for $1.75 million.
Read MoreStyrofoam Home
Apr 25, 2025 | Marketplace, Real Estate |
Al Gallup is ninety-eight and has lived in Ann Arbor all his life. However, the retired school administrator has never seen anything like the building now under construction near his home on Bydding Rd. “They’re building a house with a method I’ve never seen—Styrofoam—a lot of concrete work, [and] now more Styrofoam blocks came in,” says Gallup.
Read MoreGrad Season at Tower Plaza, Prices Rise at Bristol Ridge, and a Storied Home in Burns Park
Apr 25, 2025 | Community, Real Estate |
Our map is sparser than usual this month because, as they did last year, the assessors for Pittsfield, Superior, and Ann Arbor townships have temporarily stopped uploading sales to the state’s database.
Read MoreFebruary 2025 Home Sales
Mar 25, 2025 | Community, Real Estate |
Burns Park “bargains,” Bryant homes cross $300K, Inglis House heading back to market, and This Old House of the Month.
Read MoreJanuary 2025 Home Sales
Feb 24, 2025 | Community, Real Estate |
The return of a familiar name, timing is everything, and are older condos the new starter homes?
Read MoreU-M Hoovers up Real Estate
Jan 27, 2025 | Marketplace, Real Estate |
In December the U-M dropped $2.9 million for 116, 144, and 146 E. Hoover, which back up to the Michigan Stadium complex.
Read MoreSelling Concordia
Jan 27, 2025 | Education, Featured, Marketplace, News, Real Estate |
In mid-December, when Concordia University Ann Arbor issued a press release announcing the school would consolidate its operations at its North Building on Plymouth Rd. and away from its sprawling, lush campus along Geddes, few were surprised.
Read MoreDecember 2024 Home Sales
Jan 27, 2025 | Community, Real Estate |
U-M football legend Desmond Howard, now an ESPN sportscaster based in Miami, plunked down $800,000 for a 2-bed, 2-bath, 1,459-square-foot Liberty Lofts unit at 315 Second St.
Read MoreNovember 2024 Home Sales
Dec 23, 2024 | Community, Real Estate |
The cottage at 538 N. Main St. is overshadowed by its neighbors, but it has an adorable scalloped façade, a charming little courtyard, and for $590,000, the buyers got a 3-bedroom, 2-bath just two blocks from downtown.
Read MoreApartments for Rent
Dec 23, 2024 | Real Estate |
While Ann Arbor is rapidly urbanizing, single-family homes on large lots remain the norm in its western neighbor. But last year a huge multifamily neighborhood opened south of Dexter, other projects are preparing to break ground, and more are in the planning process. If all are approved, Scio could gain more than 1,000 rental units.
Read MoreOctober 2024 Home Sales
Nov 25, 2024 | Community, Real Estate |
A few good deals: It’s not easy—but also not impossible—to find single-family homes for under $300,000. Typically they need tons of work, but there are exceptions.
Read MoreA Game of Domino’s
Nov 25, 2024 | Real Estate |
At the far northeast corner of the Ann Arbor School District, past Frains Lake, a new subdivision is taking shape. Across from United Memorial Gardens on Curtis Rd. south of Joy Rd., nearly 150 acres of undeveloped land recently sold for $3.7 million.
Read MoreLandmark on the Market
Nov 25, 2024 | Marketplace, Real Estate |
“Ideal for maintaining current use, redevelopment, or residential development with potential for 9 lots,” reads the online listing. The asking price? $3.1 million.
Read MoreBurns Park Buzz
Oct 25, 2024 | News, Real Estate |
When the postcards arrived at homes in North Burns Park this summer, residents were understandably curious. The owner of 1015 Olivia Ave., one of the largest homes in the neighborhood, had applied to the city to divide the parcel into two lots.
Read MoreSeptember 2024 Home Sales
Oct 25, 2024 | Community, Real Estate |
It’s barely news when houses are bought low and sold fast for a bundle, but even by local standards the speedy turn for 3163 Norwood St. is head-spinning.
Read MoreAll in the Family
Oct 7, 2024 | Community, My Neighborhood |
Steve Lesko and his younger sister Ciara attended Chelsea Public Schools, where Lesko played the violin starting in fifth grade. By freshman year of high school, he’d “burned out” on classical music and joined the Chelsea House Orchestra. That was where “I fell in love with Celtic music,” says Lesko.
Read MoreCase Kittel & Hayley Billingsley
Oct 7, 2024 | Community, My Neighborhood |
Case Kittel and his brother, Ross, were in the middle of the Au Sable River when Ross turned thirty-two. It was midnight and they were competing in the 2023 AuSable Canoe Marathon, a grueling, 120-mile canoe race that starts in Grayling and ends the next day in Oscoda. At midnight, Case says, he started singing “Happy Birthday.” There was another canoe near them; the folks in that boat “were like, ‘What?!,’” but they joined in the singing, too.
Read MoreHome Is Where the Heart Is
Oct 7, 2024 | Community, My Neighborhood |
Early one morning two years ago, Gail Kuhnlein left her beloved home in Pittsfield Township’s Hidden Creek subdivision for heart surgery and almost didn’t return. Kuhnlein, now sixty, suffered complications during the scheduled repair of a congenital defect in her mitral valve, and was in a medically induced coma for weeks before she recovered. When she returned two months later to the home she shares with her husband, Tim, it was with a new perspective on life. “This,” she says, “is all bonus time.”
Read MoreAugust 2024 Home Sales
Sep 25, 2024 | Community, Real Estate |
Five houses sold for under $200K: You read that right—and one distressed 867-square-footer at 2110 Champagne Dr. in Bryant-Pattengill went for just $100,000.
Read MoreUpcoming Events
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- June 13, 2025 “Olson Park Gravel Ride”: Ann Arbor Bicycle Touring Society 9:00 am
- June 13, 2025 Crafting Crew: Pittsfield Township Community Center 10:00 am