Cleveland Real Estate News

Mike White apparently didn’t like it but I do.  The Politician A Toy sculpture has been brightening up the Chester Avenue landscape since 1996, a year before I moved back to the area.  Wonder if Mayor White has changed his mind about it, if it’s grown on him? Here is a link to Billie Lawless’ [...]

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You know those cable TV shows that tell you things like ‘what does one million buy you in San Fransisco?’ Well here in Cleveland we can find out what you get for your $100,000 investment.  I decided to check out all the West side neighborhoods first. There are 56 homes on the market now between $99,000 [...]

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Republican or Democrat, it is in our best interest to let our Representatives know how we feel about improving our rail system in Ohio, thus improving our economy. New jobs, housing, money in the State budget, well you can read more about it here on the Ohio Hub website and here in a post I [...]

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Details about the February 26th Debate between Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton at CSU are coming in…this from a PD Blog: ….”Network [NBC] and security officials will visit the CSU campus Wednesday, Johnston said. Though the Wolstein Center can hold 13,000 people, the network plans to seat less than 2,000, said Johnston. Tickets will be [...]

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The economics of a Nat’l Rail System, meaning the jobs, housing and vitality one can provide, are a no brainer for me. I found this article on my sidebar train widget written by Arthur Frommer. Here is one tantalizing quote: “….When you add the innumerable state and city projects of road construction, you find that [...]

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Steven Litt presents an unusually upbeat take on The Euclid Avenue Corridor in today’s paper. He points out that development has taken place that was not going to happen without it, and he seems to interview and quote people who back that up. Some ideas I like: developers are talking about giving RTA passes with [...]

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At first I thought og, how am I going to come up with 43 ‘things?’ It turns out it wasn’t hard.  I took the Really Bad Cleveland Accent – Christine Bourne challenge. You can read about the challenge (and maybe do your own list. Today I am doing the list here, I will possibly go to [...]

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Both are great of course, but for the time being, we can experience steam trains in Ohio but have to wait for the high speed version.  Yeah I know, bah humbug.  It’s overdue for me to give a shout out to the Steam Locomotives In Ohio website. The site claims that 52 steam engines are [...]

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At first I thought it might be silly to post about this but the truth is, we keep hearing about reducing the size of Cleveland’s City Council and also the issue of Regionalism. At some point I saw it as my responsibility to start thinking about Cleveland’s governmental structure, regardless of how much expertise I [...]

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I’ve never done it this way before but when you think about it, it’s much more useful to see stats over a longer period of time; helps give a broader picture of what’s happening in the Cleveland housing market.  I looked at two Zip Codes, 44113 and 44115. These were listed by area brokerages and [...]

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