Niki Novak Real Estate

Name: Niki Novak Real Estate
Address: 310 W Front Street Suite 411, Traverse City, MI, 49684, US
Telephone: +12316493079

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11/03/2026

There’s something about November in Northern Michigan that I just love. 🤎 The slower pace, cozy spots around town, and the excitement of the holidays starting to pop up everywhere!

Here’s what’s happening around Traverse City this November! 🍂🎄

🍷 FOOD, W**E & LOCAL FUN

• Nov 6–8 | Toast the Season
Leelanau Peninsula wineries | Winery hours

• Nov 6–14 | TC B**r Week
Participating breweries | Times vary

• Nov 8 | Seven Hills Harvest Party
Right Bower | 2–6 PM

• Nov 15 | Right Bower’s 1st Birthday
Right Bower | 8 AM–5 PM

🛍️ SHOPPING & MARKETS

• Nov 7 | Shop Your Community Day
Downtown TC | Store hours

• Nov 13–14 | Merry Marketplace
Crooked Tree Arts Center
Fri 11–7 | Sat 10–5

• Saturdays | Indoor Farmers Market
Grand Traverse Commons | 10 AM–2 PM

🏃 GET OUTSIDE

• Nov 7 | Iceman Cometh Challenge
Kalkaska to TC | Starts 8:15 AM

• Nov 26 | TC Turkey Trot
St. Francis High School | 8:45 & 9 AM

🎄 HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS

• Nov 20 | Downtown Tree Lighting
Front & Cass | 4–6:30 PM

• Nov 20–21 | Cookies & Cocoa Crawl
Downtown TC | Shop hours

• Nov 21 | TC Light Parade
Front Street | 6 PM

• Nov 28 | Holiday in the Village
Suttons Bay | Activities throughout the day

There’s so much to enjoy this time of year, and these are just a few reasons I love calling Northern Michigan home.

Save & share for holiday planning! 🤎 And if I missed any November events, add them in the comments so we can all add them to our calendars!

Times may change. Check with organizers.

11/02/2026

If you’ve been waiting for 3% to come back, here’s some perspective.

For most of the last fifty years, mortgage rates sat somewhere between 6% and 10%. My parents’ generation bought homes at 13%.

The 3% era was a short window during the pandemic, and it’s not the baseline we should be measuring against.

This week the 30-year fixed is at 7.24%, down a bit from 7.40% in mid-October. Higher than any of us would like, and also right in line with history.

The buyers I see doing well right now stopped waiting for a perfect number. They bought a home that works for their life and their budget today, knowing they can refinance if rates drop. If you want to run real numbers for Traverse City, I’m happy to share my list of local lenders.

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11/01/2026

Zombie Run 2026 is in the books, and yes, the whole family committed to the costumes.

This race has been a Traverse City Halloween tradition for eighteen years. Traverse City Track Club puts it on, Right Brain Brewery hosts, and it’s raised over $200,000 for TART Trails , the same trails that connect so many of our neighborhoods.

If trail access is on your wish list, I can point you to the neighborhoods that get you there on foot.

Did you and your family run this year?

10/30/2026

If I were to buy this house, I already know how I’d use every corner of it.

Sunday dinners at the long table with the whole wall of windows looking into the woods. Pancakes in the kitchen on slow mornings. Coffee on the deck before anyone else is up. The Christmas village goes on the hearth of that see-through fireplace, obviously, and summer nights end at the fire pit out back with a stack of wood that’s already split.

And when we host for the holidays? There’s a driveway long enough for everyone to actually park.

This one is 4176 Circle View Dr in Williamsburg, tucked into the trees just east of Traverse City. Quiet, wooded, and close enough to town that you’re not giving anything up.

Swipe through and tell me which spot you’d claim first. If you want the details comment CIRCLEVIEW and I’ll send you the listing!

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10/25/2026

I’ve written offers in parking lots and negotiated repairs from a basketball court. Asking a Starbucks barista to pour a latte into a pumpkin was somehow the boldest ask of my week.

They said yes. The kids did not see it coming. 🎃

10/21/2026

Thinking about ghosting your hometown? Do your scouting in the fall first. 👻

Summer up here is beautiful, and also packed. Front Street on a July Saturday tells you very little about what living here feels like. Come in October and you see the actual pace of town: locals at the farm stands on Old Mission, a quiet trail on a Tuesday morning, a winery table in Leelanau without a wait.

It’s a smart time to tour homes too. The sun sits lower, so you’ll see which rooms hold their light and which go dark by 5. The heat is running, so you can hear the furnace and feel for drafty windows. With the leaves coming down, you get a clear look at that “seasonal water view” the listing promised, plus the steep driveway you’d be shoveling in January.

Send me your dates and I’ll help you plan a trip that’s half house hunting, half c***r. 🍂

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10/18/2026

Every fall someone asks me where to go, and Gallagher’s is always on the list. I grew up going there, and now I’m the one standing in the donut line with my kids.

It’s right on M-72, a few minutes down the road from Jacob’s, so you can easily hit both in one afternoon. My order of operations: donuts first (the pumpkin ones, and get a dozen because they won’t make it home), then the farm animals, then pick your pumpkin on the way out.

If you’re new to town, this is one of those places locals assume you already know about. Now you do.

Where’s your must-stop farm in the fall? Drop it below so I can add it to the list.

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310 W Front Street Suite 411
Traverse City, MI
49684

Telephone

+12316493079

Website

https://linktr.ee/Nikinovak

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