Cleveland Real Estate News

Please go to the website for the charity First Book, and vote for your favorite book from childhood. The state with the most votes by September 30th will win 50,000 free books! You can vote once a day through September 30th. Peace Out – 3C

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What are the best things that can come out of a creation like this Sustainability Summit? Good ideas and a commitment to action, would be my guess.  Tomorrow is the last day and the answer to that question will get hashed out then.  Will we meet again?  How will we each decide to get involved [...]

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Took some time to think about the day before posting.  It was certainly a jam-packed day, starting before 8am with some delightful conversations.  Meeting interesting people and reconnecting with old friends at a summit made it worthwhile to be there so early in the day. There were a lot of speakers and  some workshops based [...]

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We hear a lot about vacant store fronts and boy can it seem dismal to ride the bus and view them from the bus window.  In the cold of this past winter, I started to feel better about my own little corner of the world; my real corner!  Key bank put in a drive through [...]

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Part One of this comparison of home sales  dealt with Downtown Cleveland, West Side suburbs and West Cleveland. Now I’m moving on to the east side. Only doing single family homes and these are the homes listed with area brokerages.  As comparisons go, it’s pretty interesting, especially since it deals with months in which it’s [...]

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Do you balk at suggestions to lower your listing prices and accept buyer offers that make you feel like you are giving your house away?  This may cheer you up. And put things in perspective! NYT’s article by Robert Sharoff on a Chicago post office selling for pennies on the dollar. Peace Out – 3C

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We keep asking, is the economy improving, are housing sales improving?  And lots of people have weighed in.  Here are eight communities to start off this type of comparison/discussion as it relates to home sales in NE Ohio.  I’m comparing sales in these eight communities ranging from April through July in each of the two [...]

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Howard Kurtz in today’s  Washington Post gives a synopsis and the latest buzz on MSNBC/FOX and/or O’Reilly vs Olbermann.  They both miss the point.  Some of us don’t want to hear either one of them anymore!  I’m a political junkie, always have been. But talking heads can make me crazy.  During the past year I [...]

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Senator Voinovich speaks on the Senate Floor today  (courtesy of You Tube).  Not a fan of partisan politics, get upset when both parties send me spam email dissing the ‘other side.’  And I still feel that we can’t really solve any of our critical issues until we stop partisan posturing. But I have yet to [...]

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Roldo in The Cleveland Leader has done a few articles that, among other things, do the mathematics to get to the heart of what tax abatement does and does not do.  This most recent story  takes the history of  The Park Bldg. and gets into tax abatement for developers and residents. Kudos to Roldo. Since [...]

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