Cleveland Real Estate News

The Taste of Tremont is this weekend too, but this sounds even more wonderful (to me, anyway!).  Received an email from Visible Voice Books  today -  here are the details: July 16th, 2010 Tremont’s Visible Voice Books 1023 Kenilworth Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44113 216.961.0084 www.VisibleVoiceBooks.comVisible Voice Books Weekend Event Reminder Touch and Go Fanzine and Why [...]

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The Warehouse District  is one of our Cleveland housing and economic success stories. There is a huge variety of housing styles (condos, town homes, apartments) to choose from.  And a variety in price ranges as well. My business partner Melissa and I are excited to be holding an open house tomorrow during Hanna’s Warehouse District Twilight [...]

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If these stats can be believed, the Midwest had much stronger housing recovery this year than the West and East. NuWire Investor writes that housing sales show strong growth.  “….The Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, Ohio metro area followed with 20.5% quarterly and 62% yearly gains….” I certainly saw three times the number of buyers/sellers as last year, but [...]

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We showed condos to a newer client this week.  Someone who is moving here from Florida, someone who surfaced after the Federal Tax Credit expired.  And no, this client is not from Ohio. I will say that while looking at a few condos 30 seconds from Gund Arena on Friday, this client commented that maybe [...]

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Yahoo! Finance featured a story today about home sellers who are less than truthful about problems that might exist in a home, when buyers ask questions.  Questions like how much are the utility bills.  The truth is, you, Mr. Buyer, might like a cooler home than I do, so if I sell you my house, [...]

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Yesterday the U.S. District Court dismissed Baltimore’s case against banks they said created blight by violating The Fair Housing Act (our case was dismissed months ago). I found a post from American Banker  on line, written by Jeff Horwitz  . It’s a good summary of the various municipal cases brought or being brought against some [...]

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It was quiet on the Med Mart front for a while; last we heard there was arguing over the change in plans from MMPI regarding where it would be located.  I liked the first site choice better all along.   I don’t think you have to be a staunch preservationist to not want Public Hall torn [...]

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  This is, overall, great news.  The City of Cleveland is instituting green standard (LEED) requirements in order for new or rehabbed projects to receive tax abatement. Haven’t I been saying this for a few years, that this was the way to go with abatement.  The new standards will take affect in January 2010.  You [...]

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This means you would sign your title over to your lender and you would become their tenant.  The catch is Fair Market Value (FMV) for the rent. If it’s determined to be $850/month, and your mortgage is more than that, it won’t work. If  the FMV is less than what you are now paying per [...]

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Signed into law a few hours ago, there are now more financial incentives to keep up (or start) your home search, if this is a good time for you personally, to buy.  Having good housing inventory to choose from is important too.  To all who may have wanted to put their homes up for sale [...]

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