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          By: Lydia DePilis at CNN Money There’s a reason why Lee County became the foreclosure capital of the United States. Its two vast bedroom communities, Lehigh Acres and Cape Coral, were planned in the 1950s. Master developers drained the marshlands, laid the streets, dug canals, and plotted out quarter-acre lots so … Continued

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          From: CBS Detroit Detroit has been ranked as the worst real estate market in the nation in a new WalletHub study. With home values rising by an average of more than $16,000 in the first quarter of 2018 but affordability dropping as mortgage rates get higher, the personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on … Continued

              By:  Richard Feloni and Samantha Lee at Business Insider Gilbert moved Quicken Loans, now the largest mortgage company in America, to downtown Detroit in 2010. It was a time when the city was struggling, and was three years shy of declaring bankruptcy. Gilbert grew up right outside of Detroit … Continued

  By: Steven Sigel at ReJournals   On June 18, hundreds gathered around the Michigan Central Depot, Detroit’s 500,000-square-foot decrepit former central train station. The building has served as a symbol of the city’s various ailments wrapped up in one gigantic piece of real estate: globalization, lack of opportunities, civic mismanagement. Yet, this time the … Continued

By: Annalise Frank at Crains Detroit The new owner of a land parcel near Michigan Central Station in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood plans to build apartments and rehab existing homes. Andrus McDonald of Detroit-based outdoor advertising firm Brooklyn Outdoor sold the land to Patrick Beal, CEO of Detroit Training Center, according to a news release from … Continued

By Robin Runyan at Curbed Detroit To say that the real estate market in Detroit is complicated is a vast understatement. Like the city itself, there are layers upon layers of complexities that might not be so obvious to the average home-buyer. Detroit has a very low percentage of homes bought with mortgages. although that … Continued

By: Annalise Frank at Crains Detroit Some real estate market watchers are looking for clues on the next downturn and some are celebrating as home prices continue to rise on shrinking inventory in metro Detroit. July sales of homes and condominiums in the region are up 6.8 percent over the same month last year, according … Continued

Why lease a home monthly, When you can lease to own? Land Contracts are similar to a mortgage. Rather than paying the bank or lender like you’d normally do with a mortgage; you pay the homeowner. Land Contracts allow you to pay on a home monthly. The difference is you are paying to own the … Continued

  Article By: KIRK PINHO at Crains Detroit   A more than $300 million mostly residential development by Dan Gilbert is planned for the site of the former Brewster-Douglass housing projects just outside of downtown Detroit. This is the latest incarnation of plans for the property that have been discussed for the past several years as the greater … Continued

by Kurt Nagl at Crain’s Detroit The city of Detroit selected Hector Design to develop what it considers a first-of-its-kind framework for making the Warrendale-Cody Rouge neighborhood more kid-friendly, the city said Thursday. The New Jersey-based consultant was hired as part of the city’s bid to improve mobility, housing, education, health and public safety in … Continued