Restarting motor city

Five years ago, Detroit, the principal city in the Detroit-Warren-Livonia, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area, was declaring bankruptcy with debt estimates as high as $20 billion. This summer, those troubles seem comfortably in the rearview, according to the latest VeroFORECAST, which shows that real estate values in the nation’s 14th most populous MSA are predicted to increase at an average of 6.8% over the next 12 months.