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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Come see 284 Tilbury with Dmitry on Tuesday morning.
Tour information on LastTuesdayTour.com
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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 […]

Larry Nutson, Bloomfield Village’s manager and a long time resident, loves the village he lives in. When we asked him to tell us a few things he enjoys about Bloomfield Village, he had trouble keeping the list down to the top 10 we requested.

Lower real estate taxes than the City of Birmingham.
Birmingham school district.
Professionally managed […]

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 […]

The real estate market has turned many a hopeful seller into a reluctant landlord (or SellLord, as I have dubbed them). Yesterday I got wind of something I have never heard of before, though I can understand the motivation.
A new tenant went to enroll her children in the Birmingham public schools. The […]

Get a load of this 1983 segment on Bloomfield Hills, which was America’s richest zip code at the time. That happens to be the year I graduated from high school along with the children of some of the “Auto Barons” mentioned in the clip. I especially loved Ronna Romney’s (Mitt’s ex-sister-in-law) outfit! […]