A typical Barton Hills home is worth roughly $1,410,000
Home prices around Barton Hills have risen about 37% over the past 5 years. Builders were permitted 1 new home in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Barton Hills?
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What it takes to buy in Barton Hills
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That’s $1.14M short of a typical Barton Hills home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,920 a month here, $6,950 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the Michigan typical property tax (1.25% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
99% of Barton Hills households own their home
Half of Barton Hills’s homes were built before 1960.
Michigan: 73% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.
Home prices up 37% in 5 years
The federal house price index for the ZIP code around Barton Hills rose 37% over the past 5 years, slower than across Michigan (52%). Prices were about flat last year.
Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Barton Hills, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.
A two-bedroom rents for about $1,920
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Ann Arbor, MI MSA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
1 new home permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 1 new home in Barton Hills in 2025, worth about $4 million to build. Over the past 10 years, Barton Hills has permitted 14 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Barton Hills gained 22 residents while 4 new homes were permitted: about 5.5 new residents per new home. Population grew faster than building, so existing homes filled up: a sign of tight supply. Across Michigan: 1.2 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $4 million |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2022 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $4.4 million |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2020 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $4.7 million |
| 2019 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $4 million |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $2.2 million |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $356,000 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
Barton Hills vs. its neighbors
Barton Hills is the priciest of 3 neighboring towns. Tap one to see its housing page.
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Typical value: Zillow Home Value Index; * Census median home value where Zillow has none. † FHFA price index change where Zillow has none. Rent: HUD Fair Market Rent. New homes: Census building permits.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.