Cleveland Real Estate News

I’m not an investment broker and I don’t even play one on television. I’m in real estate! But this site, The Motley Fool, caught my eye. This post focuses on investing in NE Ohio and it is a good read! It talks about neighborhoods (Kamms, for example), and recommends Eaton Corp for it’s leanness and [...]

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I have no idea how we have managed to already find ourselves at the end of June, but so be it. Sales in zip code 44113 are still intriguing; condos and town homes are continuing to be the top picks in this zip code. Here is what happened in June: 16 Properties had ‘activity.’ 3 [...]

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I have a lucky client: fiscally able to carry two mortgages at once. She has her current home listed for sale with me. And she found one she loves that feels like home in a neighborhood she loves even more. So we are considering writing an offer contingent upon the sale of her home. In [...]

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Condo owners in Stonebridge, according to WKYC news tonight, came out against a proposed series of strip clubs on the east bank of the Flats. Mayor Jackson said he knew it was controversial but it was a good spot for it. The City would create a new District for it. I can’t find a web [...]

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We have been talking a lot on Cleveland blogs (OK everyone everywhere is talking!) about what we need in Cuyahoga County and Cleveland in order to feel the economic and Sense of Place vibrancy we all crave. I thought it might be helpful to look at this ‘best’ list. CNN/Money did a poll and Househunt.com [...]

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May is one of those ‘go to’ months when predictors well, start predicting based on first quarter results and May is a big real estate sales month. This Market Watch report talks about the high inventory of homes on the market Nationwide, but also talks about May sales being stronger than expected. Just a Cleveland [...]

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To me it’s a ‘chicken and egg thing.’ The second biggest reason mentioned is the slow job market. I could be wrong, but in most cases I think you need a job in order to buy a house. The Columbus Dispatch did an article on Budget Dir. Sabety’s remarks. We kvetch about the brain drain [...]

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I went to our Finance Manager Bob Wilson (Howard Hanna Mortgage Services) for some updates on the state of the housing economy. The first thing he sent me was information that can affect interest rates, expected out in June. We already know that they were spiking at the beginning of the month. Bob pointed out [...]

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I had a gentleman walk into my office a week or so ago. He moved here from Kansas City and worked in a western suburb. He’d only been here a few days, but could already tell he really wanted to live in Cleveland. He wants to rent so we set out to explore a few [...]

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When my ex MIL was alive and living in Mayfield Heights, I spent a lot of time there. It’s a community with a sizable rental market as well as residential housing. The Village of Mayfield Heights has it’s center at S.O.M. Center Road and Wilson Mills Road (there is also an Aladdin’s Eatery and a [...]

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