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Welcome to the Logical Property Management Blog. Below you'll find blog posts specific to Property Owners or Tenants to learn more about how we work and what you should be looking for.

2025-11-14

From Grit to Glam: Detroit Tops the Luxury Housing Market Nationwide

Yes, you read that right. Detroit is now the #1 luxury real estate market in the United States. Not New York City. Not Los Angeles. Good ol’ Detroit! This comes according to the Wall Street Journal and Realtor.com’s Fall 2025 Luxury Housing Market Rating, which has the Motor City beating out upper-class metros like San […]

2025-11-01

Tenant Payment Performance Update 2025 3rd Quarter

We’re unaware of any other local management company publishing this data!  Please share this with anyone interested in real estate investing or looking for a better property manager, so they can see what they are missing!  GENERAL EVICTION UPDATE We’re not aware of any courts experiencing significant delays in evictions. On average, an eviction case […]

2025-10-31

Deep Dive into Oak Park, MI: a Detroit Ring City

We talk to out-of-state investors every day who are intrigued by the Metro Detroit rental market, but aren’t sure exactly where to buy. That’s why we created this Deep Dive series: to demystify the metro area’s 185 cities and Detroit’s 290 neighborhoods for landlords, one zip code at a time.  This installment takes you on […]

2025-10-13

Hamtramck Named One of the US’s Top 5 Suburbs to Live In

The city bubble has burst. With work from home now an option for many workers and rents soaring in metro areas, there’s been a mass exodus of tenants to the suburbs. Particularly in areas with home values under $250,000. Places like Hamtramck. So, Detroit investors, pay attention, because big things are happening in this little […]

2025-10-07

The CPA Building in Corktown is Up for Sale

Corktown is Detroit’s oldest neighborhood, but it’s got a new lease on life.  New housing, retail spaces, parks and commercial districts – everywhere you look in Corktown, change is all around you. At the heart of this change is the monumental redevelopment of Michigan Central Station by Ford, which has become a catalyst for further […]

2025-10-03

7 Rental Trends Every Detroit Landlord Must Know in 2025

The Zillow Rentals Consumer Housing Trends 2025 report just dropped. TL;DR? Don’t worry, we’ve got you. At 29 pages, it’s a lot of information to sift through, but we’ve boiled it all down to the 7 most crucial insights landlords need to take away from the report. Here’s what the data is saying, and what […]

2025-09-22

Detroit’s Condo Comeback? There’s a Better Strategy for Investors

Don’t buy a condo in Detroit before you read this! While we’ve seen incredibly strong performance from our single-family rental portfolio in Metro Detroit, the condominium market here has been experiencing some challenges of late. So if you’re thinking about diving into condo investments, you might want to hear what the numbers are actually saying […]

2025-09-08

Move-In Specials in Detroit: Zillow’s Tips to Fill Rentals Faster

Have you ever had a rental unit sit vacant so long that you’re willing to do just about anything to get a tenant? You’re not alone. More than one-third of rentals in the U.S. offered some type of upfront incentive to sweeten the deal for tenants in 2024. So, investors, should you be offering Move-In […]

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