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I love that little Plugoo thingy over to the right. It allows people to chat with me if I am on line or to send me messages if I am off line. Those messages actually come through to my Blackberry immediately, so if there were a “real estate emergency” (like you need me […]

Yes, a rather self absorbed sounding title for this post, but this post is only a little about ME. There is another Maureen Francis. Well, there is more than one other Maureen Francis, but on the internet when you Google “Maureen Francis” you get either the opera singer, a medical doctor or […]

I’m not the only agent who has observed that there are fewer and fewer agents visiting homes during our weekly board of Realtors tours. These tours, typically on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Oakland County, are designed to invite Realtors to come through the new listings. There could be lots of reasons that attendance […]

You are all invited to join us Tuesday June 26th from 4 to 7 pm for the Birmingham Bloomfield Realtor Network’s “Taste of Birmingham“, which features 9 great homes and food from some wonderful Birmingham eateries. Dmitry and I will be at 282 Wimbleton in Poppleton Park.
Technorati Tags: birmingham mi real estate, birmingham […]

Yesterday Dmitry was having a conversation with an unrepresented seller, lets call him Simon, who told Dmitry, “I would never use ‘PruCenturyMax Brokers’ [name changed to protect the guilty] to sell my home. When we bought this home they helped us and they gave us terrible advice. They recommended that we pay top […]

People arrive at miOaklandCounty.com in many different ways. One is by Googling a search phrase and then landing on an article I have written. Recently, a phrase has been popping up sporadically that goes something like, “What if I can’t sell my Michigan home?” I wish it were not popping up at […]

Last night I was watching the Birmingham City Commission meeting on Comcast and one of the commissioners (it might even have been the mayor) misquoted a statistic that was wrong in the first place. He stated that “10% of Birmingham homes are in forclosure.” He was quickly corrected, or quickly corrected himself, and […]

Some interesting things we have read recently…
Triangle, Barnum and Shain discussions in Birmingham
A new Birmingham MI Homes web site for Dmitry and Maureen (we are just getting started on it)
The trouble with Michigan’s school funding on Rob Lawrence’s Schools, Politics and Common Sense.
Oakland County’s Dental Discount Program on Dave Lambert’s Troy Blog
Realcomp’s Legal Battles
SoundBiteBlog’s […]

We try to keep up on real estate trends lots of places, not just here in Metro Detroit. Here are a few of the blogs (there are more) that we like to track:

Charlotte Real Estate
SoundBiteBlog
Eastern Connecticut Real Estate
Real Estate Undressed
miBirmingham.com
Manhattan Real Estate
Delaware Ohio Real Estate
Virginia Real Estate Homes
St Paul Real Estate
Henderson Real Estate
Cleveland Real […]

Trulia recently rolled out another cool tool called Trulia Hindsight. Hindsight is an animated map of homes in the United States. The animations use the year the properties were built to show the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities over time. It really provides an excellent visual presentation of the evolution of a […]

I have been working on a market update, but then the following article landed in my mail box this morning. To strengthen their statistics I will add that my own office just had its best month in 2.5 years. Our showings are up substantially too.
The following is taken directly from MCAR Reports, a […]