Traverse City Area Real Estate

5/21/2012 Senate Majority Floor Leader Arlan Meekhof (R-Olive Township) and Representative Jon Bumstead (R-Newaygo) have introduced legislation, Senate Bill 1130 and House Bill 5647 respectively, aimed at applying a less subjective approach to critical dune regulation. REALTORS®, builders, and property owners living and working within the ...

Illustration by Ian Michael Rousey By Jed Kolko Jul 8, 2012 6:30 PM ETHouse prices, after falling for more than five years, are rising again. All the major sales-priceindexes show that there have been modest national increases in recent months, even after adjusting for seasonal patterns. When foreclosures and distressed sales are ...

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June 23, 2012 Sales surge continues in May236 homes were sold in the five-county area last monthBy Bill O'Brienbobrien@record-eagle.comThe Record EagleSun Jun 24, 2012, 10:06 AM EDTTRAVERSE CITY — Housing sales continued a spring-time surge in May across the 5-county region. Existing home sales totaled 236 last month in Grand Traverse, ...

Daily Real Estate News | Monday, June 18, 2012 -->Shadow inventory dropped nearly 15 percent year-over-year in April and is at about a four-month supply—reaching its lowest level in nearly three years, real estate data provider CoreLogic reports. Shadow inventory, as defined by CoreLogic, refers to properties that are seriously delinquent ...

Local home sales on the reboundBy Bill O'Brien-Traverse City Record-EaglePosted: 05/23/2012 7:14 AMExisting home sales continued to surge in the 5-county area, and sale prices also are starting to rebound. April home sales totaled 206 across Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Benzie, Antrim and Kalkaska counties, according to data ...

Yesterday, Governor Snyder signed into law the revised Principal Residence Exemption statute. The revised statute changes the filing deadline for the Principal Residence Exemption Affidavit from May 1 to June 1 and adds a new second filing date of November 1. The law will also allow lenders who foreclose on property to retain the principal ...

April 20, 2012Grand Traverse home sales up in MarchTAAR reports highest March figures in at least six yearsBy Bill O'Brienbobrien@record-eagle.comThe Record EagleFri Apr 20, 2012, 07:18 AM EDTTRAVERSE CITY — Mother Nature helped boost home sales in the Grand Traverse region. She didn't close any deals, but March's unseasonably ...

Find out which remodeling projects will provide the biggest bang for your buck this year, according to Remodeling magazine.March 2012 | By Erica Christoffer--> Optimizing the use of space in a home will not only attract buyers but also give sellers more bang for their buck, according to Remodeling’s “2011–12 Cost vs. Value ...

March 22, 2012 Regional home sales jump in February141 existing homes were sold last month in five-county areaBy Bill O'Brienbobrien@record-eagle.comThe Record EagleThu Mar 22, 2012, 07:14 AM EDTTRAVERSE CITY — Local home sales continued a fast start in 2012, and jumped more than 16 percent in February. Sales figures from the Traverse ...