Housing market ‘high and tight’

If you like the current county real estate market — and what’s not to like if you have no intentions of buying a home? — then you should be pleased by the latest sales figures.

They show a remarkably stable yet tight market, with values retaining the steep gains that followed the COVID pandemic.

“I am above what I did last year, but it’s so close,” said Ranae Ihme, broker at Leelanau Vacation Realty (LVR) in Glen Arbor. “It’s right on par. I never thought I could keep up with last year’s numbers.”