Susie Armiak




Grosse Ile's Triple -Licensed Luxury Realtor - Serving

Downriver Michigan & Wayne County


Licensed Realtor - Licensed Residential Builder - Licensed

Mortgage Loan Originator (NMLS# 2563607)

The October market in Downriver Michigan is measurably different from September ~

Most Buyers assume Spring is the best time to buy a home. the listings are fresh, the weather is nice and everyone is out looking. What they do not account for is that everyone else is out looking too

There is a counterintuitive truth about the Downriver Michigan real estate market that most buyers never figure out until they have missed the opportunity: August and September are actually some of the best months to buy.

Pricing a home on Grosse Ile is one of the most nuanced decisions in Downriver real estate — and one of the most consequential. Get it right and you sell quickly, at or above ask, with competitive offers. Get it wrong and you enter the cycle that costs sellers the most money: overpricing, sitting, reducing, and ultimately selling for less than a correctly priced home would have brought on day one.

There are homes with water views. And then there is this — an ivy-draped Stone Tudor on two private acres of Certified Wildlife Habitat, where 173 feet of Gibraltar Bay waterfront opens directly onto the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge. A federally protected sanctuary. Your view.

The decision to sell your home is one of the most significant financial moves you'll make.

Here are the 10 questions I hear most - answered honestly, without the sales pitch.

“What is Grosse Ile actually like to live on?” And I always give the same answer — it’s unlike anywhere else in Downriver Michigan.