Cleveland Real Estate News

InfoCision is hiring and according to the news article on WKYC’s website, this may be an indicator that the economy is getting better.  The reason they cite is that companies who had previously outsourced their telemarketing/customer service calls, are changing their minds and coming back to the U.S. for employees. 700 is a lot of [...]

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This book came out in 2007, but if I had not been reading the Cleveland Design City   site, I would not have known about it.  The book is called Cleveland Goes Modern: Design for The Home 1930-1970.  Here is a book review by Cleveland Area History. They felt the addresses of the featured homes [...]

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Attention All Red Line Rail Riders – West 25th Station Closed 8/11/10 – 8/18/10 From Wednesday, August 11, 2010 through Wednesday, August 18, 2010, the West 25th Rapid Station will be closed to allow for replacement of the stairway. While the Red Line will continue to travel through this location, passengers will not be able [...]

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Okay, who doesn’t need the perfect brownie?  I bet I can’t get a single no out of all of you.  I sold a house to a terrific, creative young couple a few years ago.  Turns out their creativity knows no bounds.  They are a sweets confection start up called Fears Confections.  Without a doubt, the [...]

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I seem to have a  never ending quest to post opinions about our area from visitors. An article on line in the Durango Herald News (Colorado), written by John Peel,  had me at the title: Peace, Love and a near riot in Cleveland. Check it out for his perspective, both before he came and after.  [...]

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The completion of the Towpath Trail got a bit closer this week when two parcels of land were acquired. I started surfing the Web to find out if that meant it was ready to go, and found out the answer is no. There are still parcels to be acquired.  Thanks to the Cuyahoga County Planning [...]

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Not new, just go to Hawaii and see how much of Honolulu’s real estate was bought by Japanese investors. Who wouldn’t want to live in Hawaii?? lol Market Watch covers the last 12 months of real estate purchases (Nationally) and says 41 billion dollars were spent on real estate by foreign investors. I like Market [...]

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We have a primary coming up in September (7th) and then the general election in November, and I feel as if the political ads have been running since before Obama and Strickland got elected (yes, I overstate but it SEEMS that way).  Most of you probably already know about Snopes.com, where you can check facts [...]

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What if you sold your house at a substantially lower price than the market would have warranted, had you not had an out of state investor owned house next door that deteriorated so badly it hurt your property values? Judge Pianka of Cleveland’s Housing Court says you should make a claim in his court regarding [...]

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Old Brooklyn is huge, extending from the Cuyahoga River all the way to the Brooklyn City border.  Within it’s limits sits the Metropark Zoo  (and their new elephant habitat!), a booming new community garden effort, Big Creek Metropark Trails, a soon (we hope) to be connected stretch of the towpath trail, and tons of good [...]

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