Detroit debuts the new house auction site.

[DetroiterOnTheWestCoast]

I found this article on Curbed interesting. They are looking for first-person stories about people who have purchased a house through the auction. I found it particularly interesting that the young man profiled, who bought a house in the Marygrove neighborhood, did so after

"seemingly endless disappointments trying to find a home in the so-called glamorous neighborhoods closer to downtown."

While its just one person's story, any evidence that the midtown/downtown growth is slowly finding its way to other neighborhoods is nice to hear.

http://detroit.curbed.com/archives/2...nk-auction.php

[brizee]

I found this article on Curbed interesting. They are looking for first-person stories about people who have purchased a house through the auction. I found it particularly interesting that the young man profiled, who bought a house in the Marygrove neighborhood, did so after

"seemingly endless disappointments trying to find a home in the so-called glamorous neighborhoods closer to downtown."

While its just one person's story, any evidence that the midtown/downtown growth is slowly finding its way to other neighborhoods is nice to hear.

http://detroit.curbed.com/archives/2...nk-auction.php

I caught that too.

I'm not a huge Detroit cheerleader [[I don't think), also I'm not a Detroiter. I'd like to think I'm pretty fair and treat all all news even handed as it comes. However...if the Building Detroit website really is catching overflow from people wanting to be downtown but unable to join in yet that is pretty fricking huge. Maybe some good news coming out of the low downtown housing stock acting as a control volume.*

Also there used to be financing only available for specific neighborhoods. Looks like some institutions are now making funds available to all neighborhoods in the auction. I like that the website seems to actually be taking criticism and suggestions to heart to improve. It still could use a link to reputable contractors.

*I'm literally about three blocks from the house in the Curbed story. If I start seeing PAWGs jogging around my neighborhood my jaw is gonna drop a little. But then it makes sense. Marygrove/Bagley/Sherwood Forest might be the most lowkey/ready to gentrify neighborhoods in the city.