Cleveland Real Estate News

Glad they caught up with this man who allegedly helped perpetuate housing market value decline all over the County.  But I have questions related to the ones he ‘flipped’ in Cleveland.  The City of Cleveland requires every home owner with an accepted contract to sell their home, to fill out a disclosure form that states [...]

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Yesterday we reviewed recent data for Lakewood Ohio home sales. Today, asa requested, focusing on Parma housing inventory, recent sales and homes buyers recently liked enough to begin the ‘offer’ process.  These stats, as always, reflect info for homes sold through area brokerages.  And they are all single family home stats. Inventory in Parma is [...]

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I had a request for two home sales analyses.  One request was for Lakewood home sales data.  Let’s take a look at what has been happening over the last six months and whether buyers are buying in Lakewood now. There are 103 single family homes for sale by area brokerages in Lakewood Ohio as of [...]

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Working with two clients who will need to do a ‘lease to own’ option instead of buying right away.  Interesting to me that both have student loan issues.  Those pesky loans can be a burden (and a credit issue) for those who are just starting their job lives after graduation.  One couple have a fantastic [...]

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Conventional wisdom holds true: you don’t need a .com company to help you find your credit scores, you don’t need to pay to get loan modification or foreclosure threat assistance (there are non profits for that).  And now the PD highlights a new way people are trying to get your money.  The County Board of [...]

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I have clients looking to buy and they are looking to pay cash, not get a loan.  I just got another call today from someone looking to do the same. Both of these people are at different ends of the purchase spectrum (one for under $70k and one for $250k).  Now here comes an article [...]

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Chase is a large lender with many properties in foreclosure. And they have their share of homeowners who are asking to be considered as good candidates to short sale their homes. Amy Hoak’s MarketWatch article is an interesting because it gives specifics on formulas used at Chase, some incentives they could provide, and why they reject [...]

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Let’s see how many homes, listed with area brokerages, sold between June and the end of August 2011.  Note: these stats include multi family homes, single family homes and condos.  I investigated Cleveland in this post a few days ago.   Now let’s look at Rocky River, Lakewood, Bay and Fairview. Rocky River: 97  homes  homes [...]

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