Cleveland Real Estate News

Yesterday I posted  about active listings, contingent and pending and closed sales – you can read what that means here at the beginning of yesterday’s post. Today we are looking at home sale trends on Cleveland’s East Side. I picked six zip codes and looked at activity since February 1st:
44103
86 homes on the market now
11 sold since [...]

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The answer is yes. We have many homes on the market here in Cleveland, and yes we have our foreclosure issues; the true predictor can be seen in contingent and pending sales. My friend and fellow Realtor® Bonnie Erickson in Minnesota talks about predicting sales here.
What does this mean? A home is listed as active [...]

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Earlier this week someone was arrested in Lakewood. Today the PD reports the Cleveland Heights police have uncovered a copper theft ring.
How did the alleged suspects in the ‘ring’ decide what homes to hit?
“….The burglars based what houses to hit on information they gathered from an unlikely but official source: the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office, [...]

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A few months ago I purchased a spiffy new cell phone, the LG Voyager. It’s the first phone I’ve had that I’m absolutely in love with, but I digress……when I opened the box, one of the items Verizon included was a mailing bag with ‘Cell Phones For Soldiers’ information on it.  It said that all [...]

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The PD interviewed a few brokers and presented reports issued by our multiple listing service (NORMLS). The reports cover the fact that home sellers are still experiencing declines in the prices they are getting for their homes (and as I say when I do my reports for you, NORMLS covers counties like Geauga, Cuyahoga, Medina [...]

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Do you blog? If so, does anyone ever ask you why? I would tell anyone from NE Ohio considering becoming a blogger that it’s worth it just to attend Meet The Blogger events.  Tonight we pumped up on good java at Gypsy Beans and had a conversation with Adam Wasserman, CEO of The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County [...]

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On first glance, Latrobe looks like any other small town in Western Pennsylvania; modest homes built on rolling hills, a creek that meanders throughout the area (Loyal Hannah Creek is pictured here). I went for a rejuvenating visit with cousins, and my cousin Richard and I took a short hike along the Creek.  Don’t let [...]

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The latest edition of the Carnival of Ohio Politics  is up and running. There are many good reads, but I’d like to point out one post – The Dean of Cincinnati (Media Beacon) regarding Ohio’s graduation tests which are upon Ohio students starting this week.
Justin Jeffre has introduced a complaint to start an investigation claiming that [...]

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Thanks once again to Lou Tisler of NHSGC for alerting me to this during an insanely busy work week. Ohio Senator George Voinovich is introducing legislation he feels will help homeowners struggling to stay out of foreclosure. Highlights here:
1. Moratorium on pre payment penalties. These are fees many feel have been lumped into lending contracts [...]

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Yesterday we covered the East Side  so today it’s time to check out how many homes are for sale for $100,000 or less West of the River. Again, these are the homes listed with area brokerages and thus they show up on our MLS computer listing service. These are condo and single family listings. Let’s [...]

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