Curiosity is one of the most underrated tools any buyer can carry into the process. The right questions to ask when buying a house cut through confusion, surface red flags before they become regrets, and turn a stressful transaction into a confident one. Across Metro Detroit (where housing stock ranges from century-old Detroit colonials to brand-new Oakland County builds along Hall Road) asking the right questions matters even more. Markets vary block by block here. So do property taxes, school assessments, and basement realities.

The list below covers the questions worth asking at every stage of buying a house in Metro Detroit. From the first budget conversation through the final walkthrough, these are the questions that protect buyers, sharpen…

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**Updated May 06, 2026

Metro Detroit dining updates this season tell a clear story: the regional restaurant scene is having one of its busiest stretches in years. Spring is the moment when patios fill up across Royal Oak and Ferndale, brunch lines stretch around the block in Birmingham, and a new wave of Metro Detroit restaurant openings reshape how locals eat from the McNichols corridor in Detroit out to the Mile Road grid in Oakland County. The Perna Team works neighborhoods from Detroit to Brighton every day, which means tracking the dining landscape is part of the job, not a hobby.

What stands out about this round of new restaurants in Metro Detroit is the sheer range. Plant-based menus sit next to slow-cooked Yemeni rice bowls. Tiny coffee…

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Metro Detroit home buying myths are everywhere, and most of them cost real buyers real money. The internet, the family group chat, and that one neighbor who flipped a house in 2014 all have opinions about how to buy a home. A lot of that advice was true once and has not aged well. Buyers waste months (sometimes years) waiting for conditions that are not coming or trying to qualify for loans they could already get.

The Metro Detroit market has its own personality. Inventory in Royal Oak moves differently than it does in Macomb County. A pre-approval that wins a bidding war just off Old Woodward in Birmingham looks different than one that wins in downtown Plymouth or Brighton. Knowing which old advice still applies (and which advice belongs in a time…

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**Updated May 05, 2026

Memorial Day Weekend Metro Detroit always feels like the unofficial start of summer, but 2026 is on another level. Movement Festival is celebrating its twentieth anniversary at Hart Plaza, the Detroit Zoo is opening a seven-acre interactive trail experience that's been in development for almost two decades, Kid Cudi is bringing M.I.A. and Big Boi to Pine Knob, and somewhere between Royal Oak and Howell there's a parade, a carnival, or a beach opening with your name on it.

This is the guide to spending May 23 through May 25 right. Everything is organized by county so you can plan around where you actually live (or where you're driving to). Some events run the full weekend, some are one-day affairs, and a few of the Memorial Day…

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The most common first-time home buyer mistakes in Metro Detroit are skipping mortgage pre-approval, ignoring Michigan down payment assistance, underestimating closing costs, waiving home inspections, and stretching the budget too thin. Buyers across Oakland, Wayne, Macomb, Washtenaw, and Livingston Counties can avoid every one of them with the right preparation and the right local guide.

Buying a first home in Metro Detroit is exciting, stressful, expensive, and full of moving parts that nobody really teaches you. Most first-time home buyer mistakes do not happen because someone is careless. They happen because nobody told the buyer what to expect, what questions to ask, or where the real risks live. The home-buying process across Oakland, Wayne,…

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