Burns Park · Relocation
Relocating to Burns Park
Learn the Ann Arbor area before you look at homes, so you can choose the right place from a distance.
Relocating to Burns Park
If you're relocating to Ann Arbor, Burns Park offers older homes, many around 100 years old, in a neighborhood built around a 15-acre city park. The businesses on Packard are a short walk away.
We'll start with a phone call or a Zoom meeting about your job, your timeline, and what you want in a home.
If you'd like a neighborhood with history, Burns Park has plenty. The park was once the Washtenaw County fairgrounds and racetrack, and in 1910 the city named it for George Burns, a University of Michigan botany professor who founded the city's park system.
What Burns Park is like
The park has tennis and pickleball courts, a playground, and ball fields. The neighborhood holds a fun run in May and big Halloween celebrations, and Burns Park Elementary is in the neighborhood.
Homes sit closer together on smaller lots than in Ann Arbor Hills, and from some parts of the neighborhood you can walk downtown. When a home looks right, I walk through it with you on a FaceTime video call, room by room. Read more about how I help relocating buyers.
Learning the market before you arrive
I'll set you up on a search and ask you to watch it, so you see what's available in Burns Park and how quickly homes go under contract.
Plan your move
If you're relocating to Burns Park, call me or send a note. You can also read my guide to Burns Park, compare relocating to Ann Arbor Hills, or see moving to Ann Arbor.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Burns Park known for?
Its 15-acre city park, older homes, and neighborhood traditions like a fun run in May and big Halloween celebrations.
Can I see Burns Park homes before I move?
Yes. I walk through homes with you on a FaceTime video call, room by room.
Can I walk downtown from Burns Park?
From some parts of the neighborhood, yes. The businesses on Packard are a short walk from most of it.
Burns Park
What relocation looks like in Burns Park
Older homes on smaller lots near the businesses on Packard, with neighborhood traditions through the year.
- The homes
- Older homes, many around 100 years old, on smaller lots set a little closer together than in Ann Arbor Hills.
- Why people choose it
- Neighborhood traditions, like a fun run in May and big Halloween celebrations.
- Schools people ask about
- Burns Park Elementary is in the neighborhood.
- Getting around
- Southeast of downtown Ann Arbor. A short walk to the businesses on Packard, and walkable to downtown from some parts of the neighborhood.
- Nearby
- Burns Park itself, a 15-acre city park on the old county fairgrounds, with ball fields, a playground, tennis and pickleball courts, and a sledding hill. The Ann Arbor Senior Center is in the park's old horse barn. Argus Farm Stop and the shops on Packard Street are a short walk away.
- The trade-off
- Smaller lots, with homes set closer together than in Ann Arbor Hills.
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