Bloomfield Hills MI Real Estate

When we started selling homes in 2001, short sales were unheard of in Metro Detroit.  Foreclosures were rare in Oakland County.  But times have changed and this year we have had an enormous uptick in our short sale business. Short sales are taking place in every price range.  In the last 30 days we’ve helped [...]

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As I head to Florida for a much-needed vacation and annual Spring Training game (Go Tigers!!!), I leave you with an excellent Q & A reblogged with permission from my staging colleague Cindy Bryant of Redesign Etc, Inc. in Houston, TX.  Her post on Active Rain is spot-on and truly reflects the most common questions [...]

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We know that the three most important factors for a successful real estate sale are location, price and condition.  While the seller can make changes to the price and condition of a property to hasten a sale,  no one can amend the location. What happens when the location of the house itself is desirable, but [...]

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Image via Wikipedia Would you be surprised to know that a house in Metro Detroit sold for nearly $10,000,000 this summer?  That’s a whole lotta cash, by just about anyone’s standards.  According to information from Realcomp II, 21000 Turnberry Lane in Novi, sold for $9,800,000 in August.  It wasn’t even officially on the market when [...]

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This GOOD REAL ESTATE NEWS just in from Metropolitan Consolidated Association of Realtors. Note the great numbers in Bloomfield Township: Home sales again increased in both Oakland and Macomb counties compared to figures from last year. In Oakland, sales rose 23 percent; in Macomb, they rose 26 percent. Affordability helped make Southfield Oakland’s top-selling municipality: [...]

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Today I received a call from a salesperson from California who wanted to sell me the latest and greatest real estate lead system.  She started off the call with, “Maureen, are you still selling real estate?” I was leaving an open house and headed to an appointment to meet a new listing client.  Yes, I [...]

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Dmitry and I will be at our new listing at 1011 Stratford in the City of Bloomfield Hills. It is a beautifully updated ranch with a finished lower level, that we know you will enjoy seeing. The complex is right off of Woodward across from the main gate to Cranbrook. Please stop by! Written by [...]

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I just ran a complete search of home sales in Birmingham MI for the first three quarters of 2008. There were 243 home sales (225 sold, 18 pending sales) between January 1st and September 30th, 2008. I decided to create a pdf file so that readers could take a look at these sales themselves. Statistics [...]

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The Metropolitan Consolidated Association of Realtors released third quarter 2008 home sales statistics for Oakland County today, compiled from information they received from Realcomp, our mls. We’ve highlighted the report for markets that we serve, like Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Royal Oak and Troy. In the county as a whole, sales were up by 21.12% year [...]

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Yesterday I spent a few hours sitting at a booth at the Birmingham Farmers Market with Rebecca Meisner from Weir Manuel.  Our group, the Birmingham Bloomfield Realtors Network, is a sponsor of the market this year. One of the people who stopped by to chat with us picked up my card and said “If I [...]

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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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