Cleveland Real Estate News

If you haven’t already done so, check out the wonderful Charter Review Commission blog set up by Bill Callahan. It is an exhaustive list of everything being discussed, researched and debated, as well as an accounting of minutes from the public meetings that were held. Bill posted the final recommendations (pdf) and the idea of [...]

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I have clients looking in Westlake so it’s time for some Westlake stats for this home selling season. There was a lot of talk by the news media a year ago stating that Westlake was one of the few communities to ‘hold her own’ during the current housing situation. It’s still true that sale prices, [...]

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It’s been a while since I have done stats for all six counties (Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain and Medina). Here are a few results for home sales during the month of July: 1. The average sale price was down 11.4% from the July results for 2007. 2. The July 2007 average sale price for [...]

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Read a short (and I do mean short) blurb in the PD today about Reps. Jay Goyal and Josh Mandel’s idea to give college tax credits to students who pledge to stay in Ohio after graduation. I began scanning the web for more info. The credits range from $5000 for an Associates Degree to $30,000 [...]

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When I attended the Mayor’s Dialogue last week I also had a treat….seeing the pedicab one of the Kamms block clubs purchased. How cool is this! They use it to get residents who need assistance to meetings, doctors appointments, shopping. I of course wanted to take it home. They are not super expensive….I had to [...]

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Kevin Tomlinson is a Realtor® in South Beach Florida now but hey, he is really one of us! He grew up in Brook Park Ohio. Kevin was wondering how home sales have been in Brook Park. Sounded like a good time to do a full report no?   Brook Park is one of the communities that [...]

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One of the best things in the world is fresh peaches. I dream about them in February. It’s finally peach season, so I headed out a few weeks ago to the Kamms Corners Farmers Market.  I have been back every Sunday. Half the fun is talking to and getting to know the vendors. Hoopers Farm has been [...]

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Here is a passenger rail update, and thanks to Stacy Fallon of The Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Committee (MIPRC) for some of the links.   People in Warren and Youngstown weigh in on passenger rail and sound pretty enthusiastic about being able to schlep into Cleveland for Cavs and Indians games, among other things. At [...]

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I used to own a double in Lakewood and as a Realtor®, I know the existing stock of doubles and duplexes in that city is vast. I remember when Lakewood was trying to get a large commercial development in her western portion and it was estimated that everyone in that 1960′s era high rise could [...]

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Thank goodness for public protest. Something tells me this State money was available way before now, and I am hoping the RTA powers that be, with the support of local government, will continue to lead the way to getting available monies and not do it after the fact as it seems in this case. What [...]

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