For roughly a decade last century, the neighborhoods around Packard and Platt were their own city. East Ann Arbor separated from Pittsfield Twp. in 1947, only to accept annexation to Ann Arbor in 1956 in exchange for completing a water and sewage system. Ever since, its modest neighborhoods have provided much of the city’s most affordable housing—but as this month’s map shows, even “affordable” is now more than $300,000.
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As move-in began this August, Vic Village South’s website advertised, “Leasing Now Open for 2025–26!” Social media ads announced, “We have 1, 2, 3, and 4-Bedroom apartments available!”
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On Hamilton Pl., just a few blocks west of U-M’s central campus, it’s standard to wake up to the familiar sounds of the city: passing cars, roommates, construction. However, at Tri Sug—a house shared by U-M students that doubles as an underground music venue—their morning starts instead with a loud meow from just outside the window.
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The Harts’ home, a “school bus yellow” Cape Cod with a huge garden, was the second one built by high schoolers in the Ann Arbor Student Building Industry Program, an experiential learning initiative. The first was on nearby Yellowstone Dr., and the third, says Donna, “is right around the corner, on Carl Ct.”
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Marilyn Kirking says that the first time she and her husband, Duane, saw their future home in the Abbot neighborhood, “we didn’t even bring our checkbook.”
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I could’ve written another version of this essay and blown the entire word count just describing how the canopy of trees changes from season to season, or the way the maple leaves scatter sunlight across our chalky sidewalks in bouncing dapples.
Read MoreThere are more than 270 sales charted here, and we wish we could say the market is suddenly roaring. In truth, that crowd of triangles and circles reflects the assessors of Scio and Superior townships catching up after not uploading their sales to the state’s online database for months.
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“I always missed Ann Arbor—the slower pace of life, seeing familiar faces around town, being close to my family and friends of fifteen-plus years,” Carter says. She enjoys “going back to all of the wonderful restaurants, shops, museums, libraries, parks, and events that I loved growing up and now getting to share that with my family.”
Read MoreThe algorithm used by the nation’s most popular real estate site is usually in the ballpark of what property is worth—but not always.
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Work started. Then it stopped, and nothing on the boarded-up exterior explains why.
Read MoreA 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.
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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 MoreOur 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 MoreBurns Park “bargains,” Bryant homes cross $300K, Inglis House heading back to market, and This Old House of the Month.
Read MoreThe return of a familiar name, timing is everything, and are older condos the new starter homes?
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In December the U-M dropped $2.9 million for 116, 144, and 146 E. Hoover, which back up to the Michigan Stadium complex.
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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 MoreU-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 MoreThe 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.
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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.
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