ALLEGAN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 28, 2023) – The boom has apparently gone from the real estate market in Allegan County, but the baby count is up.
Those are the conclusions from the annual report from the office of the county clerk and register of deeds disclosed on Monday. Bob Genetski disclosed that his office recorded 42 live births, which is the highest amount registered since 213 in 2008, the last year that the county had a birthing hospital. In 2009, that number fell to 11 as the births were all at residences.
Meanwhile, the register of deeds office registered 24,019 land transactions last year, down more than 23 percent from the record 30,015, mostly deeds and mortgages, sees in 2021. However, the overall amount of money taken in by the county for the state’s Real Estate Transfer Tax rose from $7.3 million in 2021 to $7.41 million last year.
In other numbers released by his office, Genetski noted a record number of passport applications in 2022 with 392, a 32 percent jump from the previous year and more than three times the total of 2020. There were also 683 election inspectors certified by his office in 2022, the most since the Saugatuck Republican replaced Joyce Watts as clerk in 2017.
An online link to the entire report is through the county’s website. Genetski, who is suing the board over plans to move his office from the courthouse on Chestnut Street to the Dumont Lake campus north of Allegan, is slated to present his annual report to those commissioners at their next meeting on August 13th.
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