Home appreciation in Washtenaw County mirrors national trends. According to information from the Ann Arbor Area Board of Realtors, the median price for a single-family home in the county in the first eleven months of 2021 was...
Read MoreJust ten of those comparatively affordable homes appear on this month’s map, all but two of them in the city of Ann Arbor. As usual, the least expensive homes cluster in the city’s southeast quadrant. In Stoneybrook (formally...
Read MoreMillion-dollar sales just keep coming, with eight on this month’s map. In Ann Arbor Hills, 2997 Devonshire—which includes an adjacent lot on Hickory—tops the list at $1.8 million; it led 2106 Londonderry, a few blocks...
Read More“There’s a market for finer finishes and amenities even in traditionally middle-class neighborhoods. On this month’s map, 2740 Manchester sold for $513,230, or $78,230 over its asking price of $435,000. It was the...
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“For more than twenty years, we lived in a house off Newport Creek that was more than 3,000...
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In 1965, when Toronto-born Esther Rubin and her husband moved into Colonial Square, a cooperative...
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Robert Glassman remembers the year he met Jennie Lieberman: it was 2003, and soon they were...
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Vernon Downs, the 411-home subdivision on the city’s far west side south of Stadium and...
Read MoreThere 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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Realtors reported selling 1,349 single-family homes in the Ann Arbor School District between June...
Read MoreThe 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 MoreEight 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 MoreSeventeen 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 MoreGrocoff 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 MoreWith 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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On a Friday in March, cars with out-of-state plates lined Covington Dr. as people set up lights...
Read MoreWith 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 MoreMore 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 MoreOnly 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 MoreNovember 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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