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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 […]

Yes, that headline is correct. Sales are up over last year for the fourth month in a row, according to our MLS, Realcomp II. We’ve told you, we are seeing a lot of activity, and we are busier than ever. Spring has sprung! Here is Realcomp’s report
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Yesterday I tried to […]

Kris Wales, a great Realtor and blogger, has just launched Chat About Macomb. Take a look. Kris is a great writer with lots of insight about living in Macomb County.
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Dmitry and I have had our busiest Spring in real estate in years in 2008.  We are working with more clients than ever before.  Last week we had a couple of closings and we asked the other Realtors and mortgage brokers if they were seeing what we are seeing: a lot more buying activity in […]

On Tuesday April 29th, the Birmingham Bloomfield Realtor Network is having it’s Spring Flowers tour from 10 to 1.  Visit LastTuesdayTour.com for more information.
We are also excited to be sponsors of the 2008 Birmingham Farmer’s Market.  The market is a favorite with all of us.  Our members will even be there to greet you 5 […]

This just in from MCAR, our board of Realtors.
Sales figures for March cooled off a little from the previous two months. In February, for example, sales in Oakland County were up seven percent year-to-year. For March, sales dipped four percent. One likely culprit: the fourth snowiest March since 1880. And home buyers that may have […]

polar bear, originally uploaded by Maureen Francis.

Been to the Detroit Zoo lately? No school today, so we took a rare family trip to the zoo to enjoy the first days of spring. The polar bear exhibit is one of our daughter’s favorites, and today we were lucky enough to catch this guy swimming […]

Things look funny here today.  I will work later on getting the blog back to the way you are used to seeing it.  I upgraded to wordpress 2.5 last night and it did not like something in my theme’s header.   I threw this theme up in the meantime.
Back later!
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36 Condos in the building.
12 lockboxes at the door.
 
It was a bit of a jarring sight to behold when we entered the foyer on Friday morning. The good news is that even though there are 12 lockboxes, only 5 of the units are on the market. The […]

Source: ShutterstockWell, it’s really Millages. Millages. Millages.
I’m interrupting our series on Oakland County luxury homes today to bring you a post about property taxes. I was perusing a report on 2007 Oakland County Millage Rates and decided to see where we would find the highest property tax rates.
The winners:

Lathrup Village, where the homestead millage […]

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 […]

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, […]