Cleveland Real Estate News

Are you surprised that the new Giant Eagle proposed for W. 117th near Target is moving forward? I’m not. Because of course it still makes no sense to have a store where there are no residents when five or six groceries already exist IN neighborhoods. Anyway, you can read about it here. Grrrrr. Peace Out [...]

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I was almost bereft walking to work yesterday. As I passed City Buddha, there was a ‘store closing clearance’ sale banner out front. I immediately went in to see what was going on….they are not closing the Cleveland Heights location -but I am hoping they don’t have to leave Ohio City either! Obviously I’m not [...]

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In Cleveland news today, Mayor Jackson’s comments on the Medical Mart and improving Cleveland’s schools. His comments are covered in an article on Newsnet5′s website. He explains why he feels the Med Mart will bring on a spin off in manufacturing jobs. Again, I don’t think any of us were questioning the positives of a [...]

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For now, the Ohio Hub plan promises to hook us up with high speed rail to places like Detroit and Columbus and Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Ohio is of course not the only state vying for Federal money for high speed train routes. I found this article interesting; it talks about the proposed Atlanta to Chattanooga [...]

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I approached it with glee today, total glee! We have a new retail establishment in my neighborhood and to sweeten the pot, it’s a donut/ice cream shop! Planet Donut and Ice Cream, at 119th and Lorain, opened for business on Thursday. The Grand Opening weekend is featuring a car show, live music and a much [...]

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The future of newspapers in print form is much discussed, but when someone as insightful as Joel Achenbach tackles the issue I take note. Have to love the title: I Really Need You To Read This. I still read the paper but I do it on line. I admit, I do not read the PD [...]

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I have been crazy busy this week, but promised more stats and thought this might be useful. I picked two communities with sold housing stocks and thriving business communities: Lakewood and Rocky River. These are going to be statistics of homes sold for each year 2004-2007 (again, home stats cover homes listed with area brokerages). [...]

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You’ve all heard the news (since it’s all over the media) about Countrywide, one of the Country’s largest providers of mortgages. They are scrambling to avoid bankruptcy. I have to tell you, it is still possible to get a safe mortgage loan and that is the only good news in this mess. Brian Brady is [...]

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Independence and Brecksville are adjacent communities so it seemed appropriate to do a comparison of home sales since January of this year; six months of stats for homes sold by area brokerages: Brecksville: 81 single family homes sold 23 condos sold The homes sold ranged in sale prices from $78,000 for a bank owned home [...]

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Big hats off to fellow Active Rainer Cheryl Johnson for digging up this SNL video.….I remember it, I laughed, poignantly. You really need to watch this for the perfect financial philosophy! Thanks, Cheryl. Peace Out-3C

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