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Home 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.”

August 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.

The Last Holdouts

Sep 25, 2024 | Marketplace, News, Real Estate |

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.”

Explosion Aftermath

Aug 26, 2024 | News, Real Estate |

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.

July 2024 Home Sales

Aug 26, 2024 | Community, Real Estate |

School construction program buys three lots, Veridian sells its first three units, and a rebuild sells for more than three times its purchase price.

MDOT Nightmare

Aug 26, 2024 | Real Estate |

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.”

My Neighborhood: Lakewood

Aug 14, 2024 | Community, My Neighborhood |

“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.”

My Neighborhood: Logan

Aug 14, 2024 | Community, My Neighborhood |

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.

My Neighborhood: Haisley

Aug 14, 2024 | Community, My Neighborhood |

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.

My Neighborhood: Burns Park

Aug 14, 2024 | Community, My Neighborhood |

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 .

30 homes sold for more than $1 million… and one sold for $150k

Jul 25, 2024 | Community, Real Estate |

A $150,000 sale on Hemlock Dr., Dusty May’s $2.2M Barton Hills pad, and a big month for $1M+ sales, sort of.

A Mini Sales Surge in Barton Hills, a Mini Subdivision on Upland Dr., and a Mini Family Compound on Miner

Jun 25, 2024 | Community, Real Estate |

Mini-sub complete behind Courtyard Shops; ex-U-M provost returns; and Barton Hills sees unusual sales action.

The Litmus Test

May 24, 2024 | Business, Featured, Marketplace, News, Real Estate |

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.