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There are currently 120 homes for sale in Beverly Hills.
For the 120 listings:
Avg List Price $389,098.00
The Median Price $477,200.00
The Highest Price $789,900.00
The Lowest Price $164,500.00
15 homes are under a sales contract.
Since January 1, 2005, 57 home sales have closed.
For the 57 sold homes:
Avg List Price $330,846.00
The Median Price $355,000.00
The Highest Price $550,000.00
The Lowest Price $160,000.00
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Birmingham Homes for sale as of 7/31/2005
For the 413 listings currently on the market:
Avg List Price $912,551.00
The Median Price $4,327,000.00
The Highest Price $8,499,000.00
The Lowest Price $155,000.00
In our report last month there were 394 homes on the market.
There are currently 55 homes in Birmingham with a sale pending.
Since January 1, 2005, 120 homes have been sold
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Dmitry and I are very outspoken when we talk to new and potential clients about the power of the internet in selling a home. It was nice to have our convictions backed up today by a long article in the real estate section of the Detroit Free Press.
Though the article is about people using the […]

Dmitry scans the lists of Oakland County real estate foreclosures every week to identify potential investment opportunities for his clients.
An article in today’s Detroit News discusses a Kansas City bank that helps its clients avoid losing their homes to foreclosure. They’ve found that job loss is the reason that most people stop making their mortgage […]

From US News & World Report
Since 2001, two out of every five jobs created by American businesses have been somehow connected to the real estate boom. Seventy percent of the rise in the net worth of US households stems from rising home values.
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Dmitry, my Ukrainian cowboy, proved that Americans are not the only ones who’ve mastered the bull at my cousin’s recent wedding.
Congratulations to Carol and Eric.
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Written by Maureen FrancisSKBK Sotheby’s International Realty, 248.430.4450
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This really isn’t noteworthy, but it is exciting to me, so allow me to be self indulgant.
This weekend I will be working on a new batch of market updates to publish on Realtor.com and send around in our monthly newsletter. Its something I do every month, so nothing thrilling there. The exciting thing about this […]

Our friend, Dan McCourt, will be performing with his band, Teabag, at Rosie O’Grady’s, in Ferndale this weekend. We’ve enjoyed hearing them in the past and suggest you check them out Friday or Saturday evening. Dan is the drummer. Say “Hi” from Dmitry and Maureen to him when they are on break.
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Today’s Free Press has an article about a study done by HUD to evaluate how Realtors are doing on complying with Fair Housing Laws. The full report is to be released today. The article states that they found that Realtors at C-21 Town & Country are treating clients differently based on race.
The full article can […]

Last January Dmitry and I went down to Florida for vacation. We were in the midst of negotiations on homes for a couple of clients, so we hoped that technology would help us to make sure that they got the service that they deserved. With fax service on the laptop, our usual real estate software, […]

This has got to be one of the coolest free things to come down the pike lately.
http://earth.google.com/
Free little download program from Google that lets you see and zoom in with a 3-D view of anyplace on earth.
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Lately, more than ever, we are asked, “It seems like there are a lot of ‘For Sale’ signs up. What is going on?”
Though interest rates are low and much of the country is experiencing a record year for home sales, our market has lagged behind previous year’s activity. Much of the explanation can be found […]