Cleveland Real Estate News

The whole idea of someone living in your home without your approval is foreign to most of us in the United States. I know I had squatters in my Maryland condo back in the 90s — 20% of me was amused; mostly I was just pissed off. But in Britain, squatting is not a novelty, [...]

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As Ken Prendergast of All Aboard Ohio  said: “It seems that repeated utterances of ‘Roads-n-Bridges’ have become a programmed response as the best way to boost jobs.”  The proposed Stimulus package used to contain a request (and this was as recently as last week) for a substantial amount of Stimulus Package money to be used [...]

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This move made me very happy, and even more convinced about the commitment my company has made to the City of Cleveland. I’m continually impressed with their long-standing commitment to Pittsburgh, where they started out many years ago. It’s never been about lip service with them, even working on HOPE VI and other housing efforts [...]

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There is an outside chance that some of us bloggers are going to be on a bus Sunday trekking through Ohio, eventually heading to DC. If this happens I will be really excited to talk to people in a ‘man on the street’ kind of way and get some oral history about the inauguration of [...]

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We know the Planning Department has their ideas on future housing in our neighborhood.  We know what existing housing we already have.  The question is, do you want to have an input in how ‘housing’ is shaped over the next decade?  Would you like to hear what your neighbors think? The Bellaire Puritas Development Corporation [...]

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Westlake is a community used by the media as an example of positive home investment, at least this was true in 2007. Several local TV channels pointed out that sales did not suffer. Rather than give an opinion on this aspect, per se, I thought I’d do an analysis of Westlake home sales in 2008 [...]

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If you’ve attended meetings at which Mayor Jackson is present, or if you’ve read about his comments to candidates during the Presidential election, you know he has an Urban Agenda. Apparently it’s about to be fleshed out. Crain’s Cleveland’s  Jay Miller writes about it this week, Apparently studies have concluded that rehabbing the InnerBelt Bridge [...]

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Watching the early news on Newsnet Five sent me to the computer to google for more information. I caught the tail end of a snippet about the most stable or recession-proof jobs. Newsnet 5 listed accountants, mathematicians, computer jobs and parole officers. The first three are no surprise to me, and I suppose as long [...]

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One of the commenters from an earlier stat post this week requested info on Slavic Village.  Rather than point her to the data already there I decided to do a more in depth look, still using both multi-family and single family stats.  Instead of the general area, I was able to cut it down to [...]

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The All Aboard Ohio site has a full listing, but as part of the task force, there was a good list made up regarding rail in Ohio.  Here is the pdf task force report. (From Ohio Dept of Transp) I received this from the All Aboard Ohio executive director, Ken Prendergast, today: See http://www.allaboardohio.org/cms/index.php for [...]

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