Real Estate

My Allen Neighborhood

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.

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Coming Home

“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.”

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Styrofoam Home

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.

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November 2024 Home Sales

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.

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Apartments for Rent

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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A Game of Domino’s

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. 

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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.

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