Cleveland Real Estate News

Alright, he does not really expect it to stay the same. David Byrne – who has written some of the best songs/lyrics ever, has a journal. He had a tour of the new New York Times digs this month and talks about that in relationship to two things: 1. How will we get our news [...]

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So says Advance NEO who featured a post by Paul Gaston A Kent State Univ. Prof. They say it’s a math equation but it’s not bad, even I can do it lol. Go add to the list of good things here in NE Ohio. And yeah you can add to the negative side too Peace [...]

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So our County Commishes (is that a word?) gave us an early present this year, in the form of additional sales taxes; are ya feeling the punch as you sleuth around the stores for presents this year?  And our County Auditor is getting ready to give us another holiday present….our property taxes are probably already [...]

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Do you remember the Cowell & Hubbard jewelry store at 13th and Euclid? Crain’s Cleveland reports  (and Stan Bullard writes) The Playhouse Square Foundation has purchased the building. (The Realtor® in me saw the sale price: $1 mil for 43,000 square feet and said hmmm, prime location Downtown and it sold for a million dollars….puts other asking prices [...]

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We have the OFPTF Report, and I still had some questions. Lou Tisler of Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Cleveland (NHSGC) has graciously provided some answers and comments. Q:There seems to be a difference between the Bush Admin recommendations and the OFPTF Report recommendations, how will it be determined which ‘program/law’ is carried out in [...]

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Last week I took a look at home sales in University Heights from the early nineties to 2007. This week I’m across the River to… Rocky River.  This will give you a bit of a birdseye view of sale prices through the years. Again, these are homes sold through area brokers for which I can [...]

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If I could embed it I would. It is from ABC’s This Week.  I may not agree with him on everything but no matter, I can’t say enough about how much I respect him. I encourage you to watch this interview.

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Is it just me? All week we have been treated to the Columbus Dispatch articles on Ohio cities. Now the Pee Dee is weighing in with a ‘series’ on Mount Pleasant.  Someone please tell me that there is useful information here. Because I can’t see it. Peace Out-3C

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Governor Strickland  gathered together a Foreclosure Prevention Task Force and charged them with coming up with suggestions to improve the situation. There was  an effort to get service providers of the sub prime variety to  open up discussions and answer specific questions. Interestingly, this ‘white paper’ (do people still call it that?) talks about only [...]

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Today I know I have to read a large document Lou Tisler  of NHSGC was kind enough to provide me on recommendations for foreclosure prevention. While reading it, there was an interesting point related to our neighborhoods, and I wanted to post it right away. A friend of mine and I were talking on the phone today [...]

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