Dearborn Heights, a city of about 63,000 residents in western Wayne County, borders both Dearborn and Detroit. Buyers choosing between neighborhoods in Dearborn Heights are sorting themselves into two distinct tiers. One tier is driven by school districts and parks. The other is driven by rental income and affordability. As the market calms, the difference ...
KeyCrew Local
Michigan Real Estate News,
From the Experts on the Ground.
We interview the verified agents, lenders, and operators working Michigan, county by county, town by town, and report what they tell us first-hand.
Sourced From Thousands of Experts on the Ground
At KeyCrew Media, we conduct first-person research with hundreds of active real estate agents, lenders, and operators working markets across the country.
Latest Michigan Real Estate News
Interest rates dominate conversations about buying a home right now. In the Detroit metro area, the housing market has softened modestly in recent months. For some buyers there, a fixation on rates may cost more than the rates themselves. Anthony Kellum runs Kellum Mortgage, a Detroit-based mortgage company that also serves Atlanta. His argument is ...
A year and a half to two years ago, listings in Dearborn Heights, Michigan routinely drew 20 to 30 offers. That kind of frenzy masks how a market actually works, who is buying, what is moving, and where the pressure points are. Now that inventory has increased and competition has cooled, the underlying dynamics of ...
A $77,000 mortgage and a $500,000 mortgage require roughly the same amount of processing, underwriting, and closing work. But only one generates enough revenue to keep a loan officer’s pipeline economically viable. That gap, between the labor a small loan demands and the compensation it produces, is one of the less-discussed structural barriers to homeownership ...
Metro Detroit remains one of the few major metropolitan areas where an investor can acquire a property for under $100,000, put in rehab work, and still generate positive cash flow. That affordability continues to attract capital from across the country, but financing these deals and structuring them to survive a missed assumption requires more nuance ...
Michigan Real Estate News, Town by Town
Browse Michigan real estate news market by market. Jump into any town for first-hand local reporting from the verified agents, lenders, and operators working there.
Real Estate News Beyond Michigan
The best local real estate news from other markets across the KeyCrew network.
Many real estate professionals in Southlake, TX, and across Dallas-Fort Worth are bracing for a slower stretch. Justin Nimergood, who leads the Top Gun Team at Epique Realty, believes the next 12 to 24 months will be difficult, and he is planning for it now instead of waiting to see how hard it hits. “It’s ...
Most aviation planning starts from a simple assumption: aircraft need airports, and airports need hundreds of acres. A demonstration flight in downtown Manhattan this month challenged that assumption directly. Lisa Wright, founder and CEO of Landings, was at the downtown helipad when Electra’s hybrid-electric aircraft flew in from Linden Airport in New Jersey, landed, took ...
Construction costs are rising. Capital is more expensive. Some markets are oversupplied. Together, those pressures have made buying existing self-storage facilities more attractive than building new ones, according to George Hristodoulou, a principal at RSG Development, a New Jersey-based developer. “We think it’s in many ways a better time to acquire than develop because of ...
The affordability conversation in most metro areas centers on interest rates. In Fairfax County, Virginia – the suburban ring just outside Washington, D.C. – a 25-year view points to home prices, not interest rates, as the main driver of the affordability squeeze, according to Andy Novins, who has worked the Falls Church area for 23 ...
Buyers searching for a home in Central Austin, TX often narrow their list to a handful of close-in neighborhoods and then have trouble choosing between them. Zilker, Bouldin, Crestview, Hyde Park, and North Loop all have loyal followings, and each one offers a different kind of daily life. Kathy Sokolic, co-founder of Mueller Residential Group, ...
For retirees comparing 55+ communities in Ocala, Florida, Stone Creek and On Top of the World often end up on the same shortlist. The two sit right next to each other, and a new road now connects them. Both offer strong amenities and a range of home options, so the decision usually comes down to ...
Syndicate KeyCrew Local. Free with attribution.
Are you a publisher or platform? Embed full market pages, pull articles via API, or pipe our RSS into your CMS. Drop-in real estate coverage from verified local experts.
