Ann Arbor Real Estate Blog

Ann Arbor is a great city for fitness and health.  There are many opportunities for walkers and cyclists to work exercise into their daily lives, but nothing completes the picture of healthy living better than fresh foods, grown locally, on your table.  Even though modern food processing methods...

At the moment, you (and your parents) may still be celebrating your admission to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Medical School or a graduate or undergraduate program.  You are confident that you will be getting a great education while living in a pleasant, smaller town less than 30 minut...

The new Ann Arbor Board of Realtors statistics have just come out and it shows that the number of new listings to the market in Washtenaw County is essentially unchanged from last year.  Through the end of April, there were 2,540 new listings, versus 2,499 in 2009.  At a quick glance, this would ...

Love and marriage, love and marriage, goes together like horse and carriage... you can't have one, you can't have none, you can't have one  without the other... Frank Sinatra So went a popular song of the 50's, sung by Frank Sinatra.  Not even Frankie always followed through at the time, but in 2...

Throughout the days of the home buyer tax credit, set to expire on April 30, the question has been: Will cash back encourage a person to buy a home?  Cynics have countered:  People would have bought anyway. The same questions are now being asked about the latest round of rebates, this time on app...

With a little over a week left for Ann Arbor buyers to qualify for the Home Buyer Tax Credit, some may think "What's the rush?  It will probably be extended!"   Consumers might like that, but by all indications, the credit will not be renewed.  This time around, two of the biggest forces in pushi...

In view of the recent Goldman-Sachs allegations andother Wall Street shenanigans, I thought you might enjoy this post that has been making the rounds of internet blogs and emails for the past couple years. How Deriviatives Work An Easily Understandable Explanation of Derivative Markets Heidi is t...

  In the children's story, Chicken Licken was hit on the head with an acorn one day when he was eating his lunch. He assumed that the sky was falling and persuaded his friends to join him in going off to report the impending disaster to the king. He made the unfortunate mistake of crying "The sk...

When you first move into your new Ann Arbor home, moving out may be the farthest thing from your mind. Strange as this sounds, you should always have an exit strategy in mind even before you commit to buy. When you are moving in, think ahead to when you will be moving out. If you are buying your...

In many markets, condos are harder to sell than single family homes.  Sad but true, for those of us who consider condo sales a major part of our business and who love to promote their advantages - and sad for you if you have one in Ann Arbor that isn't moving as quickly as you'd like.  An interes...