Cleveland Real Estate News

When you think about it, there are housing codes already in existence that could be used as the carrot to make large vacant property land owners do the right thing. And code enforcement might be a better strategy than trying to sue those 21 loan servicers.  You can read the PD coverage of Judge Pianka’s [...]

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Yes, another list. But we made the top twenty, per PR Newswire’s story on the best cities to ‘get a fresh start.’ The actual study was done by Relocation.com. How did they decide this? They looked at cost of living and other economic factors. They looked at jobs but in an interesting way: they went [...]

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First, something that would be near and dear to my Dad’s heart, although he worked at Engine Plant #2. Ford has announced that Engine Plant #1 is finally opening and they hope to have over 200 workers employed and operating the Plant by September. You can read about it in the Schoenberger PD article from [...]

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Dismissed. The lawsuit NPI, The City of Cleveland et al had brought against 21 lenders has apparently been ruled on, and not the way many of us would have hoped. Here is a link from Law.com regarding the latest news, fairly hot off the press (and thanks to Lou Tisler for alerting me about this). [...]

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I wrote one post saying any large project like this has to have a rail and transit component.  Second post last July  with an update and a bit about how it worked in St. Paul. Here we are a year later and apparently the first meeting about the Opportunity Corridor has finally been held. Yes [...]

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 I get the Kamm’s Corner ‘e’ newsletter and maybe you do too. Just in case you don’t, a few things stood out for me and maybe for you too.  The Paint Program is underway.Construction of the Lorain Avenue Streetscape Improvement Project continues. Please sure to visit all of our merchants in Kamm’s. Yes, they are [...]

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Sound odd? It’s one of the fascinating/frustrating, educational, frustrating things that can slow the closing of a house sale down uh, to a frustrating crawl? Here is the deal. I have a listing with an accepted offer. The building is a four plex.  Four, one bedroom living spaces. Current zoning laws divide property use like [...]

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Decided it was time to do stats in a different way for a change. Maybe measuring things this way will be useful. Any questions, please let me know.  I’m looking at the following: 1) sales between Nov and May in both 2008 and 2009 2) sales in two east side and two west side communities [...]

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Last night was another terrific CSU Levin College Forum.  You may recall a New York Times article by author Alex Kotlowitz about people’s recent experiences in Slavic Village’s efforts to rebuild the neighborhood after a wave of predatory lending and foreclosures. Alex was invited to be the keynote speaker at last night’s forum.  When I [...]

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