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Howell MI Housing Market: Home Prices & Trends September 2026

Howell sold 25 homes in September 2026 at a median of $350,000 and $200.00 per square foot, with a median 18 days on market and 98.57% of original asking price. Sixty one homes are active, 27 are under contract, one is coming soon, and the market holds 2.83 months of supply. These figures cover homes for sale in Howell Michigan inside both the city and the township. I am Michael Perna of The Perna Team at eXp Realty: 24+ years, 8,000+ closings, 99.1% list-to-sale ratio.

Updated September 2026 | Michael Perna, The Perna Team | Michigan License #309650

Howell at a Glance

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South Lyon MI Housing Market: Home Prices & Trends September 2026

South Lyon and Lyon Township closed 61 homes in September 2026 at a $500,000 median, $221.31 per square foot, with a median 42 days on market. There are 125 active listings and 61 homes under contract, which works out to 2.86 months of supply. Houses ran $600,000 and condos $150,000. I am Michael Perna, founder of The Perna Team, 24 plus years in Metro Detroit real estate and 8,000 plus closings, and I read every one of these sales myself.

Updated September 2026 | Michael Perna, The Perna Team | Michigan License #309650

South Lyon & Lyon Township at a Glance

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Back on the Market: What It Means for Buyers & Sellers

A home back on the market almost always means the buyer walked, not that the house failed inspection. Across Metro Detroit, most of these deals die from buyer's remorse after a bidding war or from a homeowners insurance quote that breaks the loan. Buyers who move fast often land these homes 2 to 5 percent below the offer that collapsed.

Homes Back on the Market at a Glance

Quick answer: A listing that returns to active status is a failed contract, not a failed house.

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Michigan Central Station Halloween Tour 2026

The Michigan Central Station Halloween tour, Shadows at the Station, is a 90 minute guided walk through the restored Detroit depot built around the building's strangest true stories. Tickets are $25 per person, tours depart from the Graffiti Foyer on the station's east side in Corktown, and the experience is spooky without jump scares or paranormal claims.

The tour at a glance:

• What it is: a guided Halloween season history tour inside Michigan Central Station
  
  
• Where: the Graffiti Foyer, east side of the station, off 15th Street in Corktown
  
  
• Cost: $25 per person, booked and paid in advance
  
  
• Length: about 90 minutes, on the ground floor
  
  
• Scare level: spooky, not scary. No jump scares, no actors, no paranormal claims
  
  
• Good to know: active…

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Brighton MI Housing Market: Home Prices & Trends September 2026

Quick answer: Brighton closed 47 homes in September 2026 at a $452,900 median, $254.63 per square foot, and a 9 day median time on market, with 85 homes active, 47 under contract, 2 coming soon and 2.43 months of supply. The median rose 5.33% over August & the per foot number jumped 14.88%, and almost none of that is a composition trick. I'm Michael Perna. I've closed 8,000+ transactions across Metro Detroit in 24+ years, my team runs a 99.1% list to sale price ratio, and I read every single Brighton closing in this report myself.

Updated September 2026 | Michael Perna, The Perna Team | Michigan License #309650

Brighton at a Glance

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Milford MI Housing Market: Home Prices & Trends September 2026

**Updated Oct 09, 2026

Milford, Michigan closed 30 home sales in September 2026 at a $542,450 median, $249.82 per square foot, a 33.5-day median on market and 97.89% of original asking price, with 92 active listings, 41 under contract and 3.70 months of supply across the Village of Milford and Milford Township combined. This Milford housing market report is written by Michael Perna, founder of The Perna Team, Michigan License #309650, from every closing in the Realcomp MLS, not a summary of them.

Updated September 2026 | Michael Perna, The Perna Team | Michigan License #309650

Data pulled from the Realcomp MLS on October 9, 2026. September closings keep posting for a few weeks, so next month's report trues these numbers up.

Milford at a…

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Banana Ball in Detroit: Tickets, Rules & Comerica Park Guide

Banana Ball in Detroit made its debut on September 18 and 19, 2026, with two sold-out Party Animals vs. Firefighters games at Comerica Park, part of the Banana Ball Championship League's first season. Tickets are sold only through the official lottery at bananaball.com, and Detroit's next dates get announced each fall at the City Selection Show.

Banana Ball in Detroit was two nights, two sellouts, and nearly 200,000 lottery entries for roughly 82,000 seats. A lot of the people who got in were not sure what they were getting into, and a lot of the people who did not get in still want to know how the whole thing works. This guide covers all of it: what Banana Ball is, what happened at Comerica Park, why the Savannah Bananas themselves were not on the…

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VA Loans in Michigan: A Practical Guide for Veterans

VA loans in Michigan let eligible veterans, active-duty service members and certain surviving spouses buy a primary home with no down payment and no monthly mortgage insurance. The main cost is a one-time VA funding fee, waived for many disabled veterans. The Perna Team walks Metro Detroit veterans through eligibility, costs, assumptions and winning offers.

VA loans in Michigan are the most underused benefit I see in this business, and I have been selling homes in Metro Detroit for 24 years. The VA does a terrible job educating the men and women who defend us about what they earned, and the home loan is the glaring example. So this is the practical version: who qualifies, what it costs, how a VA loan assumption works, and how a VA buyer wins a…

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Farmington MI Housing Market: Home Prices & Trends September 2026

**Updated Oct 9, 2026

The Farmington MI housing market closed 15 homes in September 2026 at a $318,000 median, $207.98 per square foot and a 10-day median time on market. As of October 8 there are 22 active listings, 6 homes under contract, 2 coming soon & 2.05 months of supply, City of Farmington only. I'm Michael Perna, Michigan License #309650, leader of The Perna Team, and I checked every one of these addresses against the city map before a single number went on this page. Call or text (248) 886-4450.

Updated October 9, 2026 | Michael Perna, The Perna Team | Michigan License #309650

Farmington at a Glance

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Detroit Development Projects: What Opens in 2027 & Beyond

Detroit development projects scheduled to open in 2027 total more than $2.5 billion: the Hudson's Detroit tower, the JW Marriott Detroit Water Square, the University of Michigan Center for Innovation, Fisher 21 Lofts and the Henry Ford Health research center. AlumniFi Field follows in 2028, the Henry Ford hospital tower in 2029, and Renaissance Center demolition begins in summer 2027.

Detroit development projects are entering one of the busiest finishing stretches in the city's modern history, and the $2.5 billion scheduled to open in 2027 does not even count the three biggest items on the board: the $2.2 billion Renaissance Center overhaul, Detroit City FC's AlumniFi Field and the $2.2 billion Henry Ford Hospital patient tower. Every one of these sits…

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