Livonia is a city of 36 square miles in western Wayne County, bounded by Eight Mile Road to the north, Inkster Road to the east, Joy Road to the south and Eckles and Haggerty roads to the west. Realcomp recorded 1,201 residential and condo sales there in 2025, with a median residential sale of $325,000 and a median of 19 days on the market.
The homes
Most sales here are single-family homes: 1,078 of the 2025 sales were residential, and 123 were condos, with a median condo sale of $205,000. Residential sales closed at 101.4% of the list price on average, and the city had 75 residential listings for sale at the end of December, 0.8 months of supply. Those figures are Realcomp's; ask for the current ones on the streets you are looking at, since they move every month.
Getting around
I-96 and I-275 both run through the city. Seven Mile, Six Mile, Five Mile and Plymouth roads cross it east to west, and Farmington, Middlebelt and Newburgh roads run north and south. City Hall and the Civic Center are near Five Mile and Farmington roads. Farmington Hills is across Eight Mile to the north, Westland across Joy Road to the south, and Redford Township across Inkster Road to the east.
Parks, golf and Greenmead
The city counts 60 parks, 36 of them developed, on more than 1,389 acres of open space, with three 18-hole public golf courses, a dog park at Bicentennial Park and the Jack E. Kirksey Community Recreation Center, which has pools, gyms, an indoor track and a climbing wall. Greenmead Historical Park, on Newburgh Road, is a 95-acre city park with the Greenmead farm, a 13-building historical village, a community garden and a nature trail. Livonia also has three public libraries.
Snow and sidewalks
Plan on clearing the public sidewalk in front of the house. The city says snow that falls overnight must be off the sidewalk by noon, and snow that falls during the day by noon the next day, and its ordinance bars plowing, shoveling or blowing snow into the road.
Buying here: taxes and costs
The city says two public school districts serve Livonia, Livonia Public Schools and the Clarenceville School District, and the tax rate depends on which one a home is in. For 2025, Michigan Treasury lists a total of 41.2361 mills on a principal residence in Livonia Public Schools and 37.4524 mills in Clarenceville. As anywhere in Michigan, a home's taxable value resets after a sale, so estimate your taxes from its state equalized value, not the seller's bill (how uncapping works), and file the Principal Residence Exemption after closing.
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