Vintage Michigan U.P. resort will go up for auction this summer MLive Real Estate News Updated Apr 18, 2018; Posted Apr 17, 2018 By Tanda Gmiter tgmiter@mlive.com COPPER HARBOR, MI – Tucked inside the wild beauty of the Upper Peninsula, there’s a genteel resort on the Keweenaw Peninsula that has been drawing crowds for nearly 85 years.…
See inside Muhammad Ali’s Michigan estate for sale, a $2.8M knockout MLive Real Estate News Posted June 13, 2018 at 04:33 PM | Updated June 13, 2018 at 04:40 PM By Matt Durr | MLive By Matt Durr | MLive Photo courtesy of Cressy & Everett Real Estate If you’ve ever wanted…
June’s Hottest Housing Markets Offer Some Surprises Realtor Magazine July 5, 2018 Californian cities no longer dominate realtor.com®’s top-performing housing markets list as they have for the past six years. Instead, higher home prices may be prompting more home buyers to look elsewhere. Overall, home prices nationwide continued to escalate in June, with the median…
Single Women Over 55 Double Their Buying Force Realtor.org © Richard Drury – DigitalVision/Getty Images July 3, 2018 Single women over the age of 55 have been the fastest-growing demographic of home buyers when compared with other categories of buyers since 1981, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Married couples are the largest group of…
GAYLORD: A BOOMTOWN UP NORTH Northern Express GROWTH IN JOBS AND NEW BUSINESSES IS ACCELERATING THE BIGGEST TRANSFORMATION FOR THE SMALL CITY SINCE IT BRANDED ITSELF THE ALPINE VILLAGE A HALF CENTURY AGO BY PATRICK SULLIVAN | DEC. 31, 2016 Gaylord native Gary Scott had moved to Indiana, where he and some partners started a business to…
THE STATE OF THE MARKET UP NORTH Northern Express LIMITED INVENTORY, HUNGRY BUYERS BY ROSS BOISSONEAU | MAY 5, 2018 Back in the early 2000s, the real estate market was exploding. Lenders were eager to provide money to buyers and property values were appreciating yearly. Then the recession hit, the bubble burst, and the values started to…
Report: Co-Buyers Bring Big Down Payments DAILY REAL ESTATE NEWS | FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2018 Realtor.org Co-buyers—multiple unmarried buyers listed on the sales deed—are bringing some of the highest down payments to settlement, according to ATTOM Data Solutions’ First Quarter 2018 U.S. Residential Property Loan Origination Report. The average down payment for homes purchased by…
Katy Perry Lists Her Post-Divorce Mulholland Drive Compound Zillow Porchlight BY SATINDER HAER ON 29 SEP 2017 Wanna have a pop princess for a neighbor? She still owns the house next door. In 2013, Katy Perry scooped up not one, but two new neighboring homes shortly after her divorce from Russell Brand. Now, just four years later, the pop princess…
Country Girl Miley Cyrus Buys $5.8M Tennessee Mansion BY SATINDER HAER ON 18 AUG 2017 Zillow Porchlight The 33-acre property in her birth city, Franklin, includes a pool and mini-golf course. Miley Cyrus might be singing about ‘Malibu,’ but she’s done buying houses there. The Disney-actress-turned-pop-star just picked up a new $5.8-million pad in Franklin, TN. This is…
Take care of your home’s hot-weather needs now, and you’ll have more time for fun in the sun. Summer will be here before you know it, and you know what that means: Heat, hornets and yard work. If you’re starting to miss spring already, fear not. Here are some quick projects to make your home…
Staged to Sell: Peek Inside This Essex County, N.J. Home Posted in Staging, Staging Tips, by Melissa Tracey on June 11, 2018 Home stagers: Amy Burke & Katie Miedler, real estate pros and owners of Ambiance Decorators LLC The home: A single-family home located in Upper Montclair in Essex County, N.J. The home was staged by Amy Burke and Katie Miedler,…
Pond Hill Farms Events BARN DANCES Experience a night of fun for the entire family! Live music by Peacemeal String Band, Square Dancing with a caller, and a bonfire. Wine & Beer available for purchase. $5 Kids ages 5-10, $10 Kids ages 11-17, $15 age 18 and up. Reservations are not needed. The kitchen will…
Bay Harbor Lake Marina In-Water Boat Show – Our 16th Annual! Friday, June 15, 2018 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm Friday Saturday, June 16, 2018 10:00 am – 8:00 pm Saturday Sunday, June 17, 2018 10:00 am – 3:30 pm Sunday Contact & More Info What a way to kick off the boating season!…
Memorial Weekend Start of Summer Kickoff! ~ Bay Harbor Bay Harbor Events May 24, 2018 6:00 PM to May 28, 2018 5:00 PM Kick off the start of summer with these very special Memorial Day weekend events in the Village at Bay Harbor! It all begins on Thursday, May 24 with the first “Music on Main” of the season. The Real Ingredients will be…
Up North Beer Week UpNorthBeerWeek.com Celebrate The Suds Celebrate the best craft beers and ciders in Petoskey, Gaylord, Harbor Springs, Mackinaw City, Boyne City and Wolverine! It’s a week dedicated to the craft of making and enjoying beer. Participants Breweries, tap rooms and restaurants all with a focus on local craft beer. …
PETOSKEY REGIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY BIRD WALKS PetoskeyArea.com Occurring Tuesday, May 1, 2018 – May 31, 2018 on Tue Thur 12:00 am 9:30 am – 11:30 am Tuesday Events Occurring Thursday, May 3, 2018 – May 31, 2018 7:30 am – 9:30 pm Thursday Events Cost: FREE The Petoskey Regional Audubon Society (PRAS) invites the public each…
After April Hikes, Mortgage Rates Slide in May Realror.org Mag DAILY REAL ESTATE NEWS | FRIDAY, MAY 04, 2018 After mortgage rates rose for most of April, they dropped slightly in the kickoff to May. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dropped three basis points to average 4.55 percent. “While mortgage rates have increased by one-half of…
MICHIGAN HOUSING STATISTICS Realror.org Research Residential Sales Statistics YTD March 2018
The Shortcomings of Preapprovals Realror.org Mag DAILY REAL ESTATE NEWS | FRIDAY, MAY 04, 2018 It’s common advice for buyers to obtain a mortgage preapproval letter from a lender before going out with a real estate agent to look at homes. The rationale is that preapproval puts in writing the loan amount a buyer is…
How to Prevent a Low Appraisal Realtor.org DAILY REAL ESTATE NEWS | FRIDAY, MAY 04, 2018 Many buyers are offering more than the asking price on properties undergoing bidding wars, but when the appraisal reveals the true market value of the home, they may find they’ve agreed to pay too much. Home sales commonly fall…