Landmark on the Market
“Ideal for maintaining current use, redevelopment, or residential development with potential for 9 lots,” reads the online listing. The asking price? $3.1 million.
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Real Estate
Burns Park Buzz
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
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.
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All in the Family
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.
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Case Kittel & Hayley Billingsley
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.
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Home Is Where the Heart Is
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
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.
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The Last Holdouts
In the end, even Julie Welch accepted the inevitable. Back in June 2023, she defiantly told MLive that she hoped never to sell 730 S. Division St., a 1,064-square-foot Cape Cod built in 1901. Her parents bought it in 1962 as a student rental, and she said, as far as she was concerned, “Build around me, and let’s coexist in peace.”
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Explosion Aftermath
Shortly after 6 a.m. on Feb. 19, residents of the West Side were jolted awake by the sound of an explosion, followed by the wail of fire and police sirens. A small house at 701 S. Seventh St. had blown up.
Read MoreJuly 2024 Home Sales
School construction program buys three lots, Veridian sells its first three units, and a rebuild sells for more than three times its purchase price.
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MDOT Nightmare
His Bouma Group, Realtors had listed a very rare commodity: two nearly one-acre house lots at 2751 and 2731 Washtenaw Ave., just east of the Stadium fork. “But getting access to the land was the problem,” he says. “We found out that no buyer wanted to move forward on that property because they didn’t have access to it.”
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My Neighborhood: Lakewood
“I have the best of both worlds,” she says. “It feels like I’m in the country, but I’m close to downtown and the Old West Side.”
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My Neighborhood: Logan
Earlier this year, Kimberly Baker Crouch’s family sold the house on N. Fourth Ave. that five generations of Bakers had called home, and she and her niece Brianna Murphy moved to an apartment on Ann Arbor’s northeast side.
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My Neighborhood: Haisley
When Marta Dabis first visited Great Oak Cohousing, she says, “I immediately knew that I had arrived home.” A Hungarian native and Zen Buddhist priest, Dabis says her neighborhood, where she’s lived since 2017, “feels like Europe inside,” with its colorful buildings clustered close together, community gardens, walking paths, and residents who know each other by name.
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My Neighborhood: Burns Park
As one of the “Morton Moms,” Erika Boehnke can count on getting at least ten texts a day—and she wouldn’t have it any other way. The Morton Moms, eight women who all live within a block on Morton Ave. in Burns Park, depend on each other to help out when life happens .
Read More30 homes sold for more than $1 million… and one sold for $150k
A $150,000 sale on Hemlock Dr., Dusty May’s $2.2M Barton Hills pad, and a big month for $1M+ sales, sort of.
Read MoreA Mini Sales Surge in Barton Hills, a Mini Subdivision on Upland Dr., and a Mini Family Compound on Miner
Mini-sub complete behind Courtyard Shops; ex-U-M provost returns; and Barton Hills sees unusual sales action.
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The Litmus Test
Jeff Hauptman’s office on the seventh floor of the 777 Building at Eisenhower and State has stunning views north to the U-M campus and downtown. But when he toured the building seven years ago, what really stayed with him was what he saw when he looked down—and saw how much space was used for nothing but parking cars.
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Building Faster
In December, assistant city administrator John Fournier presented city council with the staff’s...
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Veridian At Last
“It’s really happening,” laughs Matt Grocoff, his face flushed in the wind. “I can’t tell you the...
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