It’s that time of year again! Come up to the Hill tomorrow, Saturday, February 4, between 11 and 3, for Winterfest!

It promises to be a great event! Many of the businesses on the Hill have sponsored ice sculptures, and there will also be ice carving demonstrations, a chili cook-off (samples are free), a tent serving chili dogs, s’mores, face painting, cookie decorating, ice sculpture miniature golf, and more! It’s a great event for a family, for anyone new to the area, and for all Pointers — because who doesn’t love a free hot dog??

Our office will be open and is a great place to stop in, warm up, and get a hot chocolate! We’d love it if you came by for a chat!

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We have two listings being held open this coming Sunday!

15335 Windmill Pointe

Susan Tait will be holding open Kay Agney’s listing at 15335 Windmill Pointe in Grosse Pointe Park from 2-4pm. It is a great classic colonial listed at $550,000 with a family-friendly layout, walking distance from the marina, pool, and theater and Windmill Pointe Park! It has a spacious master bedroom with a private bath and double walk-in closets, a deep lot, and a ton of improvements… this is one you’ll definitely want to see!

279 Vincennes

Dennis Andrus will be holding open his listing at 279 Vincennes in Grosse Pointe Farms! This is one that you can move right in to! Listed at $687,500, it features gorgeous landscaping, fresh decor, a rear-entry garage and circle drive, a covered patio, 3 fireplaces, a custom kitchen… the list goes on! Put this one on your list!

Our 2011 Annual Report is in! This is a comprehensive and comparative look at the real estate market in Grosse Pointe in the year 2011. We hope you find it useful, and as always, we’re ready to create a report specific to your needs; call us with any questions or requests!

Click here to read, download, print, and pass on our Annual Report!

2011 Annual Report!

We’re hard at work preparing our 2011 Annual Report, which will talk in depth about all aspects of the Grosse Pointe Real Estate market over the past year. However, we already have some graphs prepared with comparitive data about home sales and inventory from 2010 through 2011. Click this link to see the graphs–and feel free to download them and pass them on!

Average Sale Price by Month 2010 vs. 2011

We hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend! Agents from Higbie Maxon Agney are holding open three of our listings this afternoon, so if you’re out and about, you should make it a point to stop in!

15335 Windmill Pointe

Sandy Azar will be holding open Kay Agney’s listing at 15335 Windmill Pointe in Grosse Pointe Park, a fabulous 4 bedroom, 3 and 1/2 bath colonial on a great street listed at $550,000. It is 3,267 square feet, built in 1963, and is walking distance from Windmill Pointe Park. It features tons of great updates. Take a look!

Dennis Andrus will be holding open his listing at 279 Vincennes in Grosse Pointe Farms, which is listed at $687,500. This gorgeous home features 5 bedrooms, 4 and 1/2 baths, large rooms, fresh decor, and beautiful landscaping. Built in 1956, it is 3,750 square feet. It would be a great family home! It is walking distance from schools, has a circle drive, a first floor bedroom, and a library and family room. Make a point to check it out!

279 Vincennes

23210 Linne

Finally, Bob Kay is holding open his listing at 23210 Linne in Clinton Township, listed at $67,000. It is 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, built in 1957. At 1,013 square feet, it is the perfect place for a new family or anyone looking to downsize! It has a 2-car attached garage, a beautiful large backyard with a patio, and is on a lovely quiet street. If you’re in the area, take a look!

Today’s Detroit Free Press has some good news about the metro Detroit real estate market! In October of this year, prices were up 2.5% from October of 2010; Detroit was one of only two cities in the top 20 to post an increase from 2010 to 2011. Click here to read the full article.

15335 Windmill Pointe is listed at $550,000 -- a great price and a great house!

This is the ad that we ran in this week’s Grosse Pointe News, arriving on all of Grosse Pointe’s front porches today! We’re very proud of it, and we want to take this opportunity to say, from our family to yours, Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

Image from www.artdetroitnow.com

Thanks to my weekly newsletter from Model D (a great resource for Detroit news and updates,) I learned of this article published in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times: Detroit evolving into a haven for artists. 

At Higbie Maxon Agney, when we market our wonderful Grosse Pointe community, one of the amenities that we are sure to point out is our proximity to downtown Detroit. This is a great asset for commuters, to be sure, but I think it’s important to remember that it is really an asset to all of us.

Andrew Bender, in that article, mentions some wonderful places to visit and eat in the city; when was the last time that you paid a visit to the wonderful Detroit Institute of Arts or the sculpture garden at the College for Creative Studies? It is definitely worth an extra hour (or two) at the gym to go down to Slow’s for a meal.

I think that for us native Grosse Pointers, it is easy to think of all the amazing places to visit and eat and drink here in the Pointes; contributing to our local business is one of the keys to our community’s success! Just don’t forget that one of the great things about the Pointes is that downtown is just 20 minutes down the road. And the more enthused we are about our proximity to the city, the more enthused others will be about Grosse Pointe–and that’s good news for all of us.

It may not be real-estate related, but as directly connected to the city of Detroit as we Grosse Pointers are, we occasionally like to spotlight good things going on in the area–

And we definitely have good things going on in the area!

So good, in fact, that the New York Times had something to say about it. A 4-0 Lions team and a Tigers team with an opportunity to advance to the next round of the playoffs certainly aren’t a panacea for everything our area has struggled with over the last several years. But isn’t it great to have a reason to rally around Detroit? And isn’t it fun to watch?

Go Lions! And Go Tigers!

Two articles printed in the Free Press in the last couple of days should be of particular interest to our readers!

First, in today’s paper, Metro Detroit home prices rise, bucks national trend Good news! And buyers: this is definitely the time to make a move!

211 Vendome at night

Second, in Sunday’s paper, a profile of one of our own Kay Agney’s gorgeous listings appeared in the Real Estate section! Vendome mansion at $2.5 million in Grosse Pointe Farms There’s a nice history of this phenomenal home, and a great, extensive slideshow of the interior. Check it out! And for more information on the house, feel free to check it out on our website or give us a call!