The Windingwood Drive residence, in Bloomfield Hills’ Lone Pine Road Estates community, has five bedrooms and a reported 7,741 square feet, and it was one of five reported closings in the Detroit metro area between September 21 and September 27, 2026, a group that came to $12.15 million. The week’s second-highest reported sale, a 1962 house on Arlington Street in Birmingham, closed at its full asking price of $2,599,000.
The week’s closings were reported in Lone Pine Road Estates, Birmingham, Northville and Grosse Pointe Farms, with more than one of them landing in Grosse Pointe Farms. The houses date from 1927 to 2020, and the Grosse Pointe Farms addresses include a 1927 Spanish Colonial Revival estate standing on a walled double lot.
No. 1 — $3,750,000 · 5200 Windingwood Dr, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
A 2020 custom residence in Bloomfield Hills’ Lone Pine Road Estates sold for $3.75 million on September 24, 2026, the highest reported price in the Detroit metro area for the week. The house at 5200 Windingwood Dr has five bedrooms, seven baths and a reported 7,741 square feet, and the property previously changed hands for $3,500,000 in 2021.
Listing materials identify Martini Samartino as the architect and PRM Custom Builders as the builder. The main level carries 10-foot ceilings, and the kitchen is fitted with Wolf appliances, custom Downsview cabinetry, oak ceiling beams and a large island with seating. A first-floor primary suite has its own fireplace and a marble bath, and steel-and-glass sliding doors open into a flexible dining room that can serve as a home office, library or sitting room. A covered loggia extends the main level outdoors, and the sale carries Gilbert Lake privileges, with shopping and dining nearby.
The $3.75 million closing placed Ashley Crain and Jill Laskey of Crain Homes on the listing side of the highest-priced reported home sale in the Detroit metro area for the week, a transaction that ranked No. 1 in RealtyWire’s weekly Detroit Metro Area Top 5. Ashley Crain of Crain Homes represented the buyer.
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No. 2 — $2,599,000 · 700 Arlington St, Birmingham, Michigan
Katherine E Broock of Max Broock, REALTORS®-Birmingham was the listing agent. The property closed at its full asking price. The property went under contract 4 days after the current listing date. The sale ranked No. 2 in RealtyWire’s weekly Detroit Metro Area Top 5, and it marks Broock’s second appearance in a RealtyWire Top 5 roundup for the Detroit metro area.
The five-bedroom house at 700 Arlington St in Birmingham, built in 1962, brought $2,599,000 in a sale recorded September 24, 2026. It has five baths and a reported 6,169 square feet.
A curved staircase rises from the entry, with a sitting room and a library alongside it framed by coved archways. The kitchen has its own fireplace, a window seat and a large island, and further fireplaces are set through the main rooms. The primary suite has a fully appointed bath, and windows across the back of the house overlook the outdoor terraces. Multi-tiered outdoor entertaining terraces step down a large private lot and include an outdoor fireplace and a jacuzzi, reachable both from the main floor and from the lower level, which also holds a fireplace, a walkout to the backyard and storage.
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No. 3 — $2,075,000 · 46472 Shelley Pond Dr, Northville, Michigan
The property previously changed hands for $1,900,000 in 2019, and John K Goodman of Century 21 Curran & Oberski held the listing on a transaction that ranked No. 3 in RealtyWire’s weekly Detroit Metro Area Top 5. Whitney Gesch of @properties Christie’s Int’l RE Northville represented the buyer.
The $2,075,000 purchase of 46472 Shelley Pond Dr in Northville was completed September 21, 2026. The French Country-style brick house was built in 1998 in the Shelley Pond subdivision and holds four bedrooms, six baths and a reported 8,873 square feet.
The house stands on a secluded, tree-lined lot. A two-story great room is built around a natural stone fireplace, with a bridge and a lofted study above it, and the kitchen is equipped with Wolfe and Miele appliances, Sub-Zero side-by-side refrigerator and freezer units and an adjoining coffee bar before opening into the family room. The first-floor primary suite has a spa-style bath, and all of the bedrooms are en suite.
Grounds behind the house hold an in-ground Gunite pool with an automatic cover, two stamped concrete patios and a fire pit area, with the backyard backing onto green space. A walkout lower level, remodeled in 2015 and repainted in 2026, holds a full bar, a second family room, a recreation room, a game room, an exercise room and a full bath, while the house also has a whole-house generator, a 4.5-car heated garage and a dimensional roof added in 2023.
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No. 4 — $2,000,000 · 189 Cloverly Rd, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
A Spanish Colonial Revival estate at 189 Cloverly Rd in Grosse Pointe Farms changed hands for $2 million in a transaction dated September 23, 2026. Built in 1927, the house carries a reported 13,269 square feet, with eight bedrooms and nine baths. The property previously changed hands for $1,200,000 in 2013.
Listing materials identify Louis Mildner and Frank Eisen, Detroit architects who trained under Albert Kahn, as its designers, and Julius Heinrich Haass as the man it was built for. An atrium stands at the center of the plan and opens onto the main gathering rooms, while handcrafted plasterwork, arches, wrought iron, leaded glass and multiple fireplaces run through the house. A private office keeps its original walk-in vault, and the kitchen, mudroom and powder room have been updated. The estate occupies a double lot on one of Grosse Pointe Farms’ boulevards, behind walled grounds, masonry columns and a mature arborvitae hedge, a short distance from residents-only waterfront parks and the shore of Lake St. Clair.
Ryan Lally and Shannon K Sails of KW Grosse Pointe carried the listing on the sale, which ranked No. 4 in RealtyWire’s weekly Detroit Metro Area Top 5. Pamela LeBlanc of Coldwell Banker Professionals-GPF represented the buyer.
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No. 5 — $1,725,000 · 1 Provencal Rd, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
1 Provencal Rd in Grosse Pointe Farms sold for $1,725,000, with the closing dated September 22, 2026. The 1987 house has four bedrooms, six baths and a reported 7,872 square feet on a large lot ringed by mature trees.
Oak floors run through the house, the kitchen has been remodeled, and a paneled library doubles as a guest room with an adjoining closet. Primary suites are set on both the first and second floors, and the property takes in views of Lake St. Clair.
It previously changed hands for $1,295,000 in 2022, and the $1,725,000 closing put Alexander Chapman of @properties Christie’s Int’l R.E. Birmingham on the listing side of the No. 5 sale in RealtyWire’s weekly Detroit Metro Area Top 5. Beline Obeid of Beline Obeid Realty represented the buyer.
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RealtyWire selected these transactions from publicly reported residential sales identified for the calendar week ending Sunday, September 27, 2026. The report may exclude private, off-market, delayed or nondisclosed transactions. Prices, property details and professional representation are reported as available at publication and may be updated following confirmation from transaction participants.
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