The Realtors® in my office, as well as myself, have been busy all month. The stats posted by our Northern Ohio Multiple Listing Service (NORMLS) seem to back that up, at least as far as Lakewood is concerned. I looked at all housing types (single family, condo, town homes). The drill: stats represent homes listed [...]
Entries from April 2008
April Housing Stats Part One: Lakewood
April 30th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: Cleveland Real Estate · neighborhood news
Take This Finance Advice To Heart as You Save For Your Home Purchase
April 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I know I talk a lot about fiscal responsibility here, and many people are truly trying to do their best to save money so that they can buy a home in the future. Teresa Dixon Murray’s recent blog post gives you good advice on two key issues. If someone calls you to say you had [...]
Tags: Cleveland Real Estate
Annual Rail Summit This Wednesday
April 26th, 2008 · No Comments

If you can take the day off, it would be well worth the trip to Columbus to attend this summit….the afternoon is a round of visits to legislators, the morning is informational. If you are already IN the Columbus area then please check it out for sure: Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 [...]
Tags: Ohio Rail and Transit
Could Metro Hospital Do For It’s Neighborhood What The Clinic Is Doing for Cleveland’s Fairfax Community?
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Today was so beautiful wasn’t it? I love the heat and humidity nature gave us – and it helped me as I drove to a few listings and took updated photos, met a renter at a home I had listed that now won’t have to be lonely anymore…she’s going to rent! I also have two [...]
Tags: economic development · neighborhood news
From Cool Cleveland: A Fashion/Art Event That Most Definitely Sounds Cool
April 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

You are invited to… u n c l o t h e d Grab low price tix before midnight Fri 4/25 Please accept our invitation to Cleveland’s wildest fashion event. Before midnight tonight, get your ticket to Cool Cleveland’s upcoming party, in collaboration with Fashion Week Cleveland: u n c l o t h [...]
Tags: Cleveland Events
Mandating Green Homes
April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Could we do this here in NE Ohio? Should we do this? Read this article about an idea in Montgomery County Maryland to mandate certain green standards for all new construction projects.
Tags: Cleveland Real Estate · housing trends
Housing Prices Decline Less in Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Areas
April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
This article from NPR highlights some stats about markets where transit exists compared to areas of the same state where it does not. Kathleen Schalch writes about a pattern developing: neighborhoods that are as she says relatively unscathed by falling prices (or at least ‘scathed’ less if that’s a word). The article talks about a [...]
Tags: Ohio Rail and Transit · housing trends
Marc Dann’s US World & News Report Interview on His Foreclosure Plan
April 21st, 2008 · No Comments
A shout out to Luke Mullins, who wrote this article, and alerted me about it today. He interviewed our AG Marc Dann and you can read it here in today’s US World & News Report. I have a client who is facing a short sale or eventual foreclosure; luckily for her she works for a [...]
Tags: Cleveland Real Estate · economic development
Railroads Get A Thumbs Up
April 21st, 2008 · No Comments
There is a wonderful article in the Washington Post today that coincides with comments I heard from people yesterday. I spent a few hours at Earthfest Day at the Zoo, working the booth with my All Aboard Ohio friends yesterday. There were a few people who had reservations about whether or not The Ohio Hub [...]
Tags: Ohio Rail and Transit
Tax Appeals For Cuyahoga County..Info from Earthfest Day No Less
April 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Oddly enough, one of the booths at the Metroparks Zoo Earthfest Day today was manned by the County Auditor’s staff. I had to go over and talk to them because Brooklyn Res commented on my post about surveying of neighborhoods….regarding changes to the property tax appeal process. First, the staff member told me it would [...]
Tags: Cleveland Real Estate
