Aretha Franklin’s Detroit estate sold for $300,000, now restored for $2M+

After Aretha Franklin’s 2018 death, her Detroit estate sold for $300,000 before new owners began a $2 million restoration. Behind the boarded windows of a once-grand Detroit mansion lay more than years of neglect. The house had witnessed the private life of Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, and belonged to a chapter of the city’s cultural history that risked fading away. Today, the Rose Estate is finding its way back to life, thanks to two new owners determined to preserve its architectural beauty and the stories held within its walls, states an online report by the USA TODAY.According to the March 2025 report, since acquiring the historic property, Detroit residents Trevor Thomas and Brandon Lynum have invested more than $2 million in an ambitious restoration, turning a deteriorating mansion into a tribute to two remarkable women. Scroll down to read the details of the shift of the ownership.A home with a remarkable pastBuilt in 1927, the 5,623-square-foot Tudor-style house sits in the leafy Palmer Woods neighbourhood, overlooking the ninth hole of the Detroit Golf Club. Before Franklin purchased it in March 1994, the property belonged to Patricia Hill Burnett, a portrait artist...