ASPIRING FIRST TIME home buyers might not cheer the news, but Marquette homeowners and realtors likely will: the real estate market here is very healthy. Healthy, as in the median sales price for single family homes and condos rose to a record $200,000 last year. That's an increase of $22,000 or 12% over 2017. Median ... Continue Reading
Marquette’s Housing Market: The Myths, the Facts, and the Future
EVERYBODY'S MOVING TO Marquette! They're ruining it for the rest of us! Condos are killing this town! Rich out-of-staters are buying up all the good properties! Why don't they build reasonably priced homes for regular people?! Over the last several years, we've all heard these observations, criticisms, and complaints. ... Continue Reading
WLUC’s Investment, ABC 10’s Loss, Duke LifePoint’s Layoffs, Marquette’s Hot Real Estate Market, Old City Hall Restoration, Coast Guard Park Update, and Everything Under the Sun
THE RICH ARE getting richer. WLUC, which already dominates TV news ratings in the U.P., is about to dismantle its old news set and toss out its old graphics, and build a new, state-of-the art set, and install brand new, cutting edge graphics. To the tune of $500-750 thousand dollars. That's an enormous amount of money ... Continue Reading