Birmingham MI Real Estate

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. [tags]birmingham mi real estate, birmingham bloomfield realtor network, [...]

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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 all, but I [...]

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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 changed his [...]

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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 [...]

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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 community. For [...]

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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 publication [...]

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We have seen some ‘super-sized’ transactions lately. A flurry of high end homes have sold in the last few weeks, with list prices from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. Yes, some of these homes have been on the market a long time. But something has happened that indicates, at least to me, that the wealthiest buyers are [...]

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A few weeks ago another Realtor in the Birmingham MI real estate market referred to me derogatorily as a “blogger”, somehow implying that blogging is not something that a real estate agent does to sell homes. Oh, how wrong he is. And I am OK that he does not know better. Another victim of “Old [...]

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OK, no ‘rah rah rah’, just a few impressions of what I have been seeing out there in the local market in the last two weeks or so. Let’s just call this another one of my anecdotal market reports. I tried to set up 3 showings for one couple. Two of the houses were under [...]

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Some of you may recall a post I did a while back about Habitat for Humanity taking building materials out of my childhood home before it met the wrecking ball. We sold the house in 2003, and it is looking like the new home on the site is nearing completion. Quite a change from the [...]

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Two recent news items are good news for Troy and Birmingham. The regional transit center is one step closer to becoming a reality at Maple and Coolidge. The Amtrak stop will be moved from its current location in Birmingham by the Big Rock to the other side of the tracks, in Troy. And it will [...]

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