Cleveland Real Estate News

Well, we might not be as happy with Bill’s information regarding foreclosure filings at the end of 2008, but we would rather have the truth than not, right?  Bill mentions that an Akron Beacon Journal article that was overly optimistic. Henry Gomez wrote in this week’s PD that sheriff sales were down 32% – may [...]

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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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I hope you all had a chance to unwind and be with friends or family over Thanksgiving. Now I am assuming most of you are back at work so time for more blogging!  Today I am looking at one of my favorite east side neighborhoods, encompassing zip code 44110. It’s one of those places I [...]

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Today I’m covering two more west side zip codes, 44109 (which includes Old Brooklyn) and 44135 (which includes Kamm’s Corner). Per usual, these stats cover homes listed with area brokerages. I’m still looking at home stats from March 1st until today. Multi-family  means we are looking at  two through four family homes. 44109 There are [...]

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 I’m looking at stats for the five west side zip codes, and I want to compare number of sales and average sale prices for 2006-2008. These stats cover the ‘season’ I’ve been reviewing, April through the present date. Take into consideration that there have been foreclosures which deflate the averages. It’s also interesting to note [...]

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I haven’t done a condo/town house stat report for a while so today will be the first of a few that give a sampling. I’m posting condo stats on two Cleveland zip codes: 44102 and 44113. I’m sticking with the previous time frames (the ones I used for single family sales) covering April 1, 2008 [...]

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According to Case-Schiller, our local housing prices were down 7.3% over the past year. You can read the report (three page pdf) here. They reported that Nashville was an area that saw some growth, as did quite a few of the places they studied ). One of the keys to growth instead of no growth [...]

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Someone asked me if there was still a price bump for a seller if they are selling a completely restored 1850 era home or are buyers preferring newer construction now?  Of course there are variables, some people would kill for an old home with thick mahogany woodwork and brass appointments or a farm house with [...]

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It’s been a while since I have done stats for all six counties (Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain and Medina). Here are a few results for home sales during the month of July: 1. The average sale price was down 11.4% from the July results for 2007. 2. The July 2007 average sale price for [...]

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I checked all of the neighborhoods listed on my computer system (MLS) and came up with data for these zip codes: 44106, 44108, 44110, 44112, 44119, 44128.  The stats cover single family, town house and condo sales/listings, although most were clearly single family detached homes. First, in all of these zip codes, I  found 337 [...]

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