Every few months, a seller asks me some version of the same question: "My neighbor's house sold for $50,000 more than mine, and it's the same size — why?" Sometimes the answer really is location or condition. But more often than people expect, the answer is something simpler and more structural: when the home was built.Farmington Hills, Michigan has a genuinely wide range of construction eras living side by side — and that range explains more about price differences than almost any other single factor. After 24 years pricing homes across Farmington Hills, here is what I look for.Why Does Farmington Hills Have Such a Wide Range of Home Ages?Farmington Hills grew in waves. Some neighborhoods date back to the 1950s and 1960s, built during the first big wave of Detroit-area suburban expansi... 06/12/2026