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Husband and wife team, Dmitry Koublitsky & Maureen Francis, work with home buyers and sellers throughout Oakland County, and specialize in the following communities: Birmingham, Bloomfield Township, Bloomfield Hills, Beverly Hills, Troy, Royal Oak, Berkley, Lathrup Village, Huntington Woods, West Bloomfield, Pleasant Ridge, Franklin, Bingham Farms, Farmington, Rochester, and Rochester Hills.

We've compiled great articles to help you get the information you need to be an educated home buyer or seller. At the bottom of this page you will find helpful resources, like Standard & Poors School Evaluation Service, Oakland County millage rates, and a property tax estimator from the Michigan Department of Treasury. We frequently post new information for Oakland County homeowners and prospective Oakland County homeowners on our recently improved blog, so click on MiOaklandCounty. Leave us a comment when you are there. We love to hear from you.

When you hire the two of us, it doesn't cost you any more than it would to hire one agent, but it could save you thousands.

Maureen Francis & Dmitry Koublitsky

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HGTV: “The #1 Biggest Real Estate Mistake is Failing to Stage”

HGTV recently aired a special program entitled “25 Biggest Real Estate Mistakes” which featured experts in all aspects of real estate: agents, mortgage lenders, home inspectors, flippers and stagers. The experts opined about the top reasons a listing lags on the market. Catch the full list here. Better yet, watch [...]

It’s Sunday, I am a Mother and a Realtor, and I am NOT doing an Open House

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the Oakland County (and farther afield) mothers out there. Gloomy as our weather here may be, I hope it is a special day for all. We’ll now return to our regularly scheduled real estate discussions. There is a Mother’s Day tie-in since today is Sunday, open house day [...]

Metro Detroit Home Sales UP for the 4th Consecutive Month

Yes, that headline is correct. Sales are up over last year for the fourth month in a row, according to our MLS, Realcomp II. We’ve told you, we are seeing a lot of activity, and we are busier than ever. Spring has sprung! Here is Realcomp’s report . Yesterday I tried to [...]

11 Things About Buying A Short Sale Property In Michigan

In today’s Metro Detroit real estate market, there is almost no way a prospective buyer cannot run into a few short sale properties or foreclosures during a home search. Each is much different from a standard “retail” home purchase where you are working with Susie and Sam Seller, their agent and your agent. In a [...]

East Side Real Estate Blog Launched

Kris Wales, a great Realtor and blogger, has just launched Chat About Macomb. Take a look. Kris is a great writer with lots of insight about living in Macomb County.

Observations: Oakland County Housing Market Spring 2008

Dmitry and I have had our busiest Spring in real estate in years in 2008. We are working with more clients than ever before. Last week we had a couple of closings and we asked the other Realtors and mortgage brokers if they were seeing what we are seeing: a lot more buying activity in [...]

Birmingham Bloomfield Realtor Network News

On Tuesday April 29th, the Birmingham Bloomfield Realtor Network is having it’s Spring Flowers tour from 10 to 1. Visit LastTuesdayTour.com for more information. We are also excited to be sponsors of the 2008 Birmingham Farmer’s Market. The market is a favorite with all of us. Our members will even be there to greet you 5 [...]

“Chatting” with me (through that thing to the right of this post)

I really like my little Plugoo thingy that sits in the center column of my site. But sometimes I forget to turn it off when I walk away from the computer. You might send me a message and I might not see it until I come back later. Other times I forget to turn [...]

Get Buyers Inside by Staging the Outside

After an excruciatingly long winter, I hereby declare… gratefully and optimistically… that spring is finally here! The birds are chirping, the trees are budding and the baseball season has begun. In the real estate world, this means the time has come to kick curb appeal up a notch. In a buyer’s mind, the home’s exterior [...]

March 2008 Oakland County Property Statistics

This just in from MCAR, our board of Realtors. Sales figures for March cooled off a little from the previous two months. In February, for example, sales in Oakland County were up seven percent year-to-year. For March, sales dipped four percent. One likely culprit: the fourth snowiest March since 1880. And home buyers that may have [...]

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