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Dmitry and I have owned our current home in the Birmingham Public School District since 2001 or so. I went to Birmingham Public Schools as a child and that was a consideration when we purchased our own home. Now it is time to enroll our daughter in kindergarten, and the enrollment requirements surprised [...]

I’ve just finished up a whirlwind two days with clients in from Miami who were looking at luxury homes in Birmingham and Bloomfield. Their comments gave me a fresh perspective about our area and about our housing market. It was good to hear how we look from the eyes of those seeing the area for [...]

Sure, the Southeast Michigan real estate market has hit a rough patch. There are lots of homes on the market longer than the owners want them to be. But right now, Dmitry and I barely have time to eat dinner together. We are both running in different directions taking care of clients’ needs.
In the last [...]

Don’t take my word for it, take the Free Press’s.
Sales of homes and condos in metro Detroit rose 12.8% in February compared with a year ago, according to figures released Tuesday by Realcomp.
There were 3,591 home and condo sales in the metro area in February compared with 3,184 in the same month in 2007. Realcomp [...]

When I first landed in the Former Soviet Union in 1992, the average wage was probably about $20 a month and investment was a new concept. Early “business men” were thought of as thugs, and the notion of capitalism was still very foreign. In fact, as a Peace Corps Business Advisor, I was [...]