Cleveland Real Estate News

I wrote this post last week - and you can find the details about the Workshop. The bottom line is, it’s sponsored by Hope Now, an organization with affliates all around the Country, including here. Hope Now is a HUD approved partner. See excerpt below from their website:
HOPE NOW members are committed to minimizing foreclosures. [...]

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Did you all enjoy the Spring-like weather yesterday as much as I did? Family in town so we were at Shaker Square sharing a meal and coats were most definitely optional.  Yes I know, not as nice today! In any even, I ran some figures for a client regarding housing trends in Lakewood since September [...]

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The Feds are adding more mortgage relief assistance and you can read about it here in a Washington Post article. The preliminary information says you need to be at least 90 days behind on your mortgage and still owe 90% of your loan. We’ll find out more as time goes on.
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Today was one of those gratifying days in real estate. I was able to hand over the keys to my clients because they are the proud owners of a new home. There would be more days like this except for one pesky little thing in real estate: short sales and bank owned homes.
 
To recap from [...]

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Mark (my listing partner) mentioned in my previous post that he was interviewed by Fox News today…they interviewed him at his open house. Here is the video. It shows why the transition should be stress free for anyone listed with either company (meaning if your home is listed for sale with either Realty One or [...]

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My pal Linda Davis and I banter back and forth about politics. We are rarely of the same political philosophy but good friendships survive that! Linda says I am Carole The Realtor® This tag has been blogged about on Active Rain (social network for the real estate profession)  over the last few weeks but I have my [...]

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Brian O’Neil of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette says Pennsylvania has a “better economy, better lenders and better laws.” He’s explaining why the sub prime mess as he calls it, hit Ohio harder than Pennsylvania.
Some differences: Allegheny County PA has about 4700 foreclosures this year and same with last year; we had twice as many in [...]

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The Case Shiller Report studies 20 metropolitan regions in the U.S.  The August Report shows that Cleveland and Boston were the only two regions out of twenty to show an increase. The report is here and an excerpt:

For the August/July period only 2 regions, Cleveland and Boston, had positive returns. Cleveland returned +1.1% and Boston [...]

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This rally was supposed to be held a while ago but then Bill Clinton came to town on the same day and it was postponed. I wrote here about what one Cook County sheriff in Illinois decided to do. He said no more no way. Many people feel this should happen here too. Since they changed [...]

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Might be another good time to contact your representatives and guess what, I’m not talking about any passenger rail legislation. Kenneth Hamey of the Washington Post covered one of John Dingell’s uh, dingleberry-ish ideas. He wants to eliminate mortgage deductions on ‘McMansions’ or any home of 3,000 square feet of living space or more. This [...]

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