My Neighborhood: Mitchell
In 1965, when Toronto-born Esther Rubin and her husband moved into Colonial Square, a cooperative...
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Real Estate
My Neighborhood: Thurston
Robert Glassman remembers the year he met Jennie Lieberman: it was 2003, and soon they were...
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My Neighborhood: Dicken
Vernon Downs, the 411-home subdivision on the city’s far west side south of Stadium and...
Read MoreSingle-family, Condo Sales Increase
There are 298 homes on this month’s map, up from 228 in July 2020. That’s partly because we’re casting a wider net this year: in January, we started going back to capture property transfers that missed the...
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Eight Days on the Market
Realtors reported selling 1,349 single-family homes in the Ann Arbor School District between June...
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Homespun Properties Latest Renovation
The lowest-priced home on this month’s map sold for $100,000: a 768-square-foot, two-bedroom, one-bath Arbor Heights condo at 4198 Packard in Pittsfield Township. The highest-priced home fetched $2.3 million: a...
Read MoreHomes Selling at or Above Listing Price
Eight million-dollar sales on this month’s map bring the year-to-date total to thirty-two–as many as sold at that price point all last year. According to InfoSparks, which gathers information from the Ann Arbor Area...
Read MoreMillion-dollar homes are outselling those priced below $250,000
Seventeen houses selling for more than $1 million were recorded since last month, at prices ranging from $1,035,000 up to $2.5 million. As of mid-May, twenty-four homes had hit the million-dollar mark this year, compared to just...
Read MoreVeridian, At Last?
Grocoff is the lawyer-turned-environmental evangelist behind Veridian at County Farm Park, a 110-unit development that the city approved last year for the former county juvenile justice center on Platt Rd. Based on the Latin...
Read MoreMore Home Buyers are Paying a Premium.
With inventory at record low levels, more homes in Ann Arbor are selling above their asking prices. In March, homes sold through the Ann Arbor Area Board of Realtors’ Multi-Listing Service averaged 103 percent of their...
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Short-term Rental
On a Friday in March, cars with out-of-state plates lined Covington Dr. as people set up lights...
Read MoreNew Construction’s Bigger Role
With inventory still precipitously low, new construction is playing a bigger role in the market. Fifteen percent of the homes whose title transfers were publicly recorded since last month’s map are newly built. National...
Read MoreThe Listings Gridlock
More people want to buy homes in Ann Arbor than want to sell them. The “inventory”—the number of homes offered for sale divided by the number being sold is at its lowest point in at least fifteen years. There were...
Read MoreTurning the Faucet Back On
Only thirty-nine existing single-family homes in the Ann Arbor Public Schools district were entered into the Ann Arbor Area Board of Realtors’ Multiple Listing Service in December. By mid-January, just eight were still...
Read MoreCharting the Sales Recovery
November put an exclamation mark on the recovery in real estate listings. During the coronavirus lockdown last spring, the number of people putting single-family homes on the market in the Ann Arbor School District fell 57...
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Puppy Promenade
On the afternoon before the Puppy Promenade was scheduled to take place, organizer Linda Hoadley,...
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The Fisher House
When veterans and active service members need care at a Veterans Administration hospital, their...
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“Nature never fails us.”
“When the pandemic first hit, it was really fatalistic,” Celia Ober remembers....
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Persistence and Protest
The protesters appeared like a holy procession, holding flickering candles in perfect silence,...
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The Londons
It isn’t the summer the Londons expected. Scarlett and Malcolm planned to go to...
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