Cleveland Real Estate News

As a Realtor®, it’s easy to be made aware of all the newly planned or just being built housing developments in our area. One of the frustrating aspects of all that has been the price points. $300k seems to be the standard for new town homes for example. There is one architecturally fabulous exception being [...]

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To say there are many homes on the market in each community is putting it mildly. Here, by zip code, is a summary of some Cuyahoga County communities and the number of homes available. Cleveland’s Near West Side: 44102 320 Single Family Homes For Sale 48 Condos or Town Homes For Sale 44111 359 Single [...]

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Maybe a new job or a need for a bigger (or smaller) home has you thinking about putting your home up for sale. For some of our communities, a Point of Sale inspection is required. This means, before the Title to your home can transfer to that new buyer, you will need a city inspector [...]

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The month of February had some poignant moments for me as a Realtor®. Early that month I was called by an out of town lender who had a website; he was trying to get a local contact to help a Cleveland resident save their home with a short sale (sell a home in order to [...]

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Did my daily reading of Crain’s Cleveland. Saw another article on potential jobs in our area. Robert Half is a staffing service and they claim these three ‘fields’ have good prospects: accounting finance information technology The First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or [...]

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I’ll let you judge for yourself. You can read this article on The First Amendment Center’s website. It seems a student wrote an editorial in her Indiana high school newspaper asking everyone to accept those ‘who are different.’ The newspaper advisor/teacher is in danger of losing her job…and a hearing is scheduled on May 1st. [...]

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It’s been a busy week and I am behind on this past week’s news and events. First up was a fabulous ‘Meet The Bloggers’ round table discussion which brought together public officials, lawyers, citizens and bloggers to discuss Ohio’s SB 117. It is well worth your time to listen to the podcast which you can [...]

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Is Rock and Roll about music or buildings? I love the design of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, don’t get me wrong. But it’s Spring and they announced they don’t have money to host the annual Festival this year. But they want to spend money to redesign the interior of the Museum? Crain’s [...]

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Do you get as aggravated over not having a choice in cable companies as I do? At least with high speed cable I had a few choices. But cable TV? If it’s Cleveland it’s Adelphia er, now, Time Warner. Anyway, I hate the monopoly idea and did not know until a few minutes ago that [...]

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Ok, yesterday it was Spring cleaning in Cleveland; now it’s County wide. Do you have old cell phones you want to dispose of? Old hard drives? Computers? I have an iMAC I need to get rid of and local schools have refused it. Cell phones, computers, hard drives etc., all have toxic materials in them [...]

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