Upper Michigan Real Estate Experts

Serving the Keweenaw for Over 50 Years

State Wide Real Estate of Houghton (SWOH) is a Michigan real estate firm that works with property owners and buyers to sell and buy property in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Based in downtown Houghton, the firm's dozen licensed brokers/agents focus on property in the four-county area of Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon. Beyond these four snow country counties, State Wide also has numerous vacant land listings in Iron County.

Our office is a member of the Keweenaw Multiple Listing Service, which plugs us into another 75 Realtors property listings. Our firm's agents take pride in listening to its customers and then providing the customer's services. We exist to make our customer's lives easier.

Modern Tools, Personal Service

State Wide of Houghton's agents uses all of the latest tools available to maximize the sale or purchase of any property. Examples are extensive use of the Internet and online databases to search for the properties that best match a customer's desires. We also use technology like online mapping software and GPS units to better identify property for a customer. We can also send you an aerial photo of a property, or a property's topographic map to see the elevation changes on a property.

Once we start working on the paperwork associated with selling or buying a property, we employ data exchanging with the customer and pass electronic signatures back and forth to get deals done faster for our customers.

Our Historic Downtown Houghton Office

Our office is on the corner of Shelden Avenue (US-41) and Huron Streets, in downtown Houghton. The building is three-stories of limestone and rock construction that started life in the 1870s as a liquor store. It's rich in history as a liquor store, shoe factory, several grocery stores, a financial planner, a law firm, a CPA firm, a contractor, and the real estate office and three apartments. The building recovered from a couple of severe fires, the largest of which removed the top 10 feet of the building permanently. It was extensively remodeled and returned to it's more original roots in 2015. The remodel included the manufacture of a replacement 16-foot tall sign to restore the unique signage on the building from the 1870s. The all-glass main floor street front invites customers to sit and talk about real estate at all hours of the day.

If a customer needs a computer to check email or fax to send a document, you are welcomed into the office to share our technology. We'd love to have you in for a hot cup of coffee to visit.

A Team That Knows the Keweenaw

Our agents represent very diverse backgrounds, this diversity helps our team better serve customers and cover more aspects of our local community. Examples of our team experiences include building residential and commercial construction, piloting airplanes, skiing both alpine and Nordic, hiking and snowshoeing the backcountry, rock climbing, fishing, hunting, bird watching, as well as a variety of work-related experience. All of this diversity helps us better represent, explain, and show the beauty of the Keweenaw to customers.

Part of a Statewide Network

State Wide Real Estate of Houghton is a franchise for State Wide Real Estate. The corporate office is located in Escanaba, Michigan. State Wide is represented by 26 franchised offices across the State of Michigan. The broker-owners of each office work daily, striving to deliver our customers' highest quality services. State Wide's Houghton office was established in the 1960s and serving the Keweenaw for over 50 years.

Ownership & Leadership

Owned by Kevin Liimatta, a transplant from Detroit via Minneapolis, Kevin and his wife Kathy, also a Realtor in Michigan, live in rural Chassell on an old family farm. Kevin and his business partner and former owner of Statewide of Houghton, Dick Walrath, spend time in the office every day working with both customers and our agents to ensure that the customer gets what they want.

Get in Touch

All listings are current; if you locate a property or properties of interest, please call or drop us a quick email. We'd be happy to answer your questions and dig up more information on the property that interests you. To speak with an experienced realtor call 906-482-6955 to discuss your needs today. We'll help you "find yourself in the woods" today. We serve Baraga, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon Counties.