Cleveland Real Estate News

I’ve sent a few emails, letters (and made phone calls) to Senator Voinovich over past few months and am still not pleased at all with his lack of understanding as to how important some of the transportation bills he’s voted against truly are to our economy.  Somehow I must have signed up for his newsletter [...]

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Just got a google alert and was so pleased to see this! The American Planning Association did their own h/t to great public places in America and The West Side Market  was one of those places! We Clevelanders know just how fabulous it is and it’s nice to see this kind of National recognition. We [...]

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Ten years ago, I never would have thought I would be able to forge friendships through the Internet.  I met Moni McGillicuddy because we were both Realtors® blogging on Active Rain. It was a natural progression meeting Jay as well (they are married, after all lol). They live and work in New Hampshire. I live [...]

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The Case Shiller Report studies 20 metropolitan regions in the U.S.  The August Report shows that Cleveland and Boston were the only two regions out of twenty to show an increase. The report is here and an excerpt:

For the August/July period only 2 regions, Cleveland and Boston, had positive returns. Cleveland returned +1.1% and Boston [...]

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This rally was supposed to be held a while ago but then Bill Clinton came to town on the same day and it was postponed. I wrote here about what one Cook County sheriff in Illinois decided to do. He said no more no way. Many people feel this should happen here too. Since they changed [...]

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Thankfully all the news is not bad !  From WKYC’s website, Cuyahoga Community College is adding a Westlake Campus.  There was a 33 acre plot of land in Westlake zoned industrial but apparently Westlake said a bird in the hand is better than waiting for an industry to buy it.  yeay!  Tri C has already [...]

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Nehst Creations, which is apparently no slouch since they did the Billy Bob Thornton movie Sling Blade, might be able to set up shop in an unused portion of our existing Convention Center for a year. At least that is what Mayor Jackson is presenting to our Council – well it’s after 8pm so he’s [...]

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Nordstrom opened in Pittsburgh.  Apparently there had been a dearth of upscale shops but a bunch (to the tune of about 35 shops) have arrived in the area.  Including Nordstrom. Here is the New York Times article about the new Nordstrom and retail in general. One of the Nordstrom’s (family store, don’t ya know) said [...]

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The Election is almost over and it’s going to be time to roll up our sleeves and get to prioritizing issues that need to be tackled. If you had told any of us five years ago that our Government would be willing to pump money into banks, financial institutions or anything else, we’d have all [...]

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Might be another good time to contact your representatives and guess what, I’m not talking about any passenger rail legislation. Kenneth Hamey of the Washington Post covered one of John Dingell’s uh, dingleberry-ish ideas. He wants to eliminate mortgage deductions on ‘McMansions’ or any home of 3,000 square feet of living space or more. This [...]

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