Luxury Homes

Yes, It is true.  Our listing at 6847 Alden was reduced by $200,000 yesterday and it wasn’t a Black Friday Sale.  You can still take advantage today. This special Green Lake front home is down to $900,000 and it is ready for a new owner. Take a look Written by Maureen FrancisSKBK Sotheby’s International Realty, [...]

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A recent client wanted a completed NEW home in Birmingham.  With a budget of $2,000,000, one would have thought we would have had plenty to chose from.  We did not. Spec building in Birmingham, and throughout Oakland County, has almost come to a stop.  We are still seeing a few spec homes going up around [...]

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The last few months have been whirlwind for Dmitry and me.  In spite of all that you hear about the crummy housing market, we, through hard work, good fortune and a bit of creative thinking, find ourselves square in the middle of our best year in real estate-EVER.  Yes, you read that right.  Our best [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day to all of the Oakland County (and farther afield) mothers out there. Gloomy as our weather here may be, I hope it is a special day for all. We’ll now return to our regularly scheduled real estate discussions. There is a Mother’s Day tie-in since today is Sunday, open house day across [...]

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There has been a lot of bad press over the past year about real estate values declining, home loans being hard to get and foreclosure troubles with homeowners and lenders.  I have to admit it’s a very challenging time in the mortgage lending business.  In times of trouble there are also opportunities that present themselves [...]

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We are continuing our series on Oakland County’s most expensive homes on the market today by stopping off in Orchard Lake. We started Sunday in the City of Bloomfield Hills on Vaughan Road. Tuesday found us in Bloomfield Township’s gated community, Turtle Lake, at a home on Turtle Ridge. Wednesday we were in Birmingham on [...]

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We continue our series on the most expensive homes on the market in Metro Detroit today. We started Sunday in the City of Bloomfield Hills on Vaughan Road. Tuesday found us in Bloomfield Township’s gated community, Turtle Lake, at a home on Turtle Ridge. Today we’ve got our third spec home in this series, this [...]

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Today I am continuing with my series about a few of Oakland County’s highest priced homes currently on the market. We began on Sunday with 730 Vaughan Road in the City of Bloomfield Hills. In surrounding Bloomfield Township, there are currently 5 homes on the market over the price of $5,000,000. The average price per [...]

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Come see 284 Tilbury with Dmitry on Tuesday morning. Tour information on LastTuesdayTour.com Written by Maureen FrancisSKBK Sotheby’s International Realty, 248.430.4450 Visit WebsiteSearch for homes in Oakland County

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This week I will be running a series of articles about the most expensive homes on the market in Oakland County. These are some of Metro Detroit’s super luxury homes, with price tags above $5 million dollars. In spite of Southeast Michigan’s struggling economony, in the last year the luxury home market saw a lot [...]

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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 [...]

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