Grand Rapids Homes For Sale

Grand Rapids Homes For Sale | West

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West of Grand Rapids you’ll find Hudsonville, Grandville, Zeeland, and Holland. A little to the south you’ll run into Grand Haven. Both Holland and Grand Haven are right on the lakeshore, and are amazing cities to live in.

Hudsonville is known as the Michigan’s “Salad Bowl”. There’s a lot of farmland there growing vegetables to include onions, lettuce, corn, and many others. It’s really a beautiful part of the state, and in the fall it absolutely can’t be beat for color and that nice blanket of leaves that you accumulate with a lot of trees in one area. The public school system there is second to none, from preschool on up through their high school.

Holland is a great place to live and has a lot to offer both from a cultural standpoint and an outdoor standpoint. With some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, you won’t have to look too far for things to do in the spring and summer. And while the water temperatures may be a little cool early and late in the season, the beaches are always open for a picnic, fishing, or a walk on the pier. Holland is second only to the Netherlands as the tulip capital of the world, and holds Tulip Time each and every year.

Grand Haven is Coast Guard City, USA, and there isn’t a chance you won’t realize it while you’re there. Grand Haven holds Coast Guard Festival every year, and it’s a nationally recognized festival honoring the Coast Guard and their storied history on the Great Lakes. The beaches, camp grounds, and charter fishing are second to none.

If you’re looking for information on how to sell a house, make sure you do some research and planning so you don’t waste your time.

Greater Grand Rapids Area Homes for Sale

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If you’re in the Grand Rapids homes for sale market and you’re not familiar with the area, it would be wise to familiarize yourself with the general geography of the area so your search can be a little more focused and your time a little more productive. Let’s start with a break down of area by cardinal directions.

North

To the north or Grand Rapids, if we follow US 131, you run into Comstock Park, then Alpine, and finally Rockford. If you want to look in these areas, have a look at where your daily commute will take you and keep in mind that US 131 is notorious for construction and backups during rush hour traffic. Especially if you’ll take it through Grand Rapids in either direction. The commute from Rockford to the Grand Rapids has broken many a road warrior, and driven them to look for Grand Rapids homes for sale closer in to the city.

South

To the south along US 131 we run into Wyoming, then Byron Center, and finally Dorr. The thing to note in this direction especially is that as you get farther away from the city, things get exponentially more rural. Dorr is still wide open farming county, while Byron Center has many more new, planned developments. The actual town center of Byron Center still has a very small town feel and reminds you that the area isn’t that far removed from farmland.

East

To the east we find East Grand Rapids, Ada and Cascade. These are some of the nicer area of town (read: much more expensive). If you live here you either make a comfortable income or you want people to believe that you do, and really you’re hanging by a thread trying to pay the mortgage, the car lease, and the rent-a-center bill for your furniture. You probably don’t mow your own lawn. Farther out to the east is Berlin and mostly farm land.

West

To the west is fun, sun, sand, and water. You’ve got Grandville, Allendale, Zeeland, Grand Haven and Holland. There’s not too much remarkable about any of the areas until you get out to Holland and Grand Haven. Granted, they are all very nice places to live that are growing quickly, and they all have excellent school systems. If you’re looking for Grand Rapids homes for sale, these areas are definitely worth a look. But Holland, Grand Haven, and the lake shore areas have something that no other area does: Lake Michigan. And with that comes some of the best sand and beaches in the world. If your daily commute allows it, take a look.