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When you are Relocating to Metro Detroit suburbs you might want to know Northville Michigan's demographics so you know whether you want to buy a piece of Northville real estate. 

Yes as you know most of this Northville demographic information is from the 2000 census, but I don't think it has changed much.  There has not been a tremendous amount of building in the City of Northville.

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Here is a little bit about Northville history.  Northville had many different "health clinics"

There was the Keeley Institute and the Yarnall Gold Cure.  In 1892 the Yarnall Gold Cure institute was started by Dr. Yarnell.  The Yarnall Gold cure was "the radical cure and rational treatment for opium, alcohol, cocaine, and tobacco."  For $50 you could get a three week alcohol treatment, or $20 could pay for a week of morphine and opium treatment.

Then there was the William H Maybury Sanatorium for Tuberculosis patients. Also know as Spring Hills Sanatorium or or Detroit Municipal Tuberculosis Sanatorium. It opened in 1921 in the area we know know as Maybury State Park.  In 1910 Detroit 117 people out of a hundred thousand died of tuberculosis.  Northville Sanatorium was a great place for patients to get rest, fresh air, and clean surroundings.  With the building of the Northville Sanatorium it eased the wait for hospital beds.  In 1933 there were over 2600 tuberculosis patients!       

If you are looking for a Northville home to lease because you have just relocated to Michigan, or re building your credit, or not ready to buy here is a list of single family homes that are currently for lease as of 1/8/2010.

If you notice there are 4 homes to lease in Northville under $1200.  And there are some very high end homes for lease now too.  When you are going to lease a home in Michigan they are going to usually pull a credit report on you, ask you to fill out a financial statement, and require 1 1/2 months deposit plus the first months rent.

So if you are looking to rent or lease a home in Northville give me a call.  I helped quite a few people find places to rent last year.  I had quite a few young residents coming to Providence, Botsford, and U of M hospital that need place to lease.  I know the area and can help you find homes that are close to work that fits your needs.

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If you are going to be relocating to Michigan how do you know where you are going to live?  As a real estate agent we can't steer people to one area because of race, religion, family status.  Over the years there has been housing discrimination against different religions, different races, different ethnic groups.

Detroit and it's suburbs were once racially divided.  I believe because of the sub-prime mortgage market it allowed Metro Detroit to become more ethnically and racially diverse.  The ease of getting a mortgage helped us become a better city.  It's natural the immigrants move into the poor areas because that is where the low cost housing is.  It's natural that people want to be with people that are similar to them.  New York has little Italy, San Francisco has China town.  Most major cities have ethnic areas.

Metro Detroit has those areas but what is a little different is that even amongst our "individual ethnic areas" many other religious, cultures, and races live.  Metro Detroit has become a melting pot.  Metro Detroit ethnic areas are like other big city ethnic areas.  We have great ethnic stores, bakeries, restaurants that are unique to the area.  They aren't chain restaurants.  They are unique and great places to visit different cultures right in our city.   Places to worship according to their culture and sometime in their language.

If you live here in the Metro Detroit area you know that

• Ford Motor Company employees live on the West side of town
• Hamtramck is where our "Polish community live"
• Birmingham, Grosse Pointe, Northville, Grosse Ile, Plymouth, Bloomfield Hills, West Bloomfield, Rochester are our wealthier towns 
• Our "Greek town" no longer has Greeks living together because it has become a commercial area.
• Dearborn MI has one of the highest concentrations of Arabic descent citizens in the US.
• Royal Oak, Rochester, Milford, Howell, Plymouth, Northville have old time central down towns
• Chrysler employees live north of Detroit
• Southwest Detroit is home to our Mexican population
• Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, and Lansing are our college towns
• Ann Arbor and Novi have a good sized Asian population
• Oakland County is our lake real estate area
• Canton has a high population of Indian and Pakistani citizens 

But if you look deeper into the cities none of them are over 50% of the ethnic groups I described.   Italians, Greeks, Irish, Eastern European, Russian, and Germans all live in these cities.  We have all come from some other country.  Some of the cities only have a 10, 20, or 30% concentration of the ethnic group I described.  Like Novi it is a beautiful diverse city with great schools the Asian population may only be 10%.  Many of the foreign car company house their employees in Novi.  Mazda used to house their oversea employees down river.  But I wanted to give a glimpse of the metro Detroit area where you can find great authentic places to eat, and find people that you relate to and feel comfortable with. 

Metro Detroit is a great place to live.  If you are going to relocate to Michigan there are lots of great places to live.

Russ Ravary your Metro Detroit real estate agent. 

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 Here's what is happening in the Northville real estate market in the last ninety days.  The market has changed since the beginning of the year.  It was a buyers market during the winter but it has change a little bit.  Homes are not staying on the market as long.  If you notice the average time on the market is only  4 monthes right now. 

If you look at the table below you will notice that the over $800,000 Northville real estate market is dead.  Only one home in that price range has sold.  It is quiet.  I would say the over $800,000 price range is a buyers market right now.  Whether the sellers are willing to negotiate is another matter. 

If you notice there are not many homes that have sold lately under $200,000 in Northville.  Only 15 Northville homes have sold in the last 90 days under $200,000.  It's  to imagine that there were 2 homes in Northville that sold for under $100,000.  There are bargains in Northville real estate right now.  I have recently helped a client buy a nice house for under $200,000 and it wasn't a bank foreclosure, it was a corporate relocation property.  There are deals in short sales, estate homes, and relocation homes.

I hope this helps you understand the Northville real estate market right now.  Feel free to call me with any questions or if you want to see some Northville homes.

Russ Ravary your Metro Detroit real estate

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