Cleveland Real Estate News

I liked examining this zip code because while most of it is in Shaker, it also encompasses parts of Warensville, Orange and Beachwood.  My stats are as usual, only covering homes (single family here) listed and sold by area brokers. But I did glean some info from the new County Data base (auditor’s site). Here [...]

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The short answer seems to be yes. I’m sure you’ve read print, web and tv reports about the National housing market having more activity (buyers writing offers) this year – and same media reporting on NE Ohio sales being highest in last few years.
Made sense to me to put that to the test and to [...]

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Part One of this comparison of home sales  dealt with Downtown Cleveland, West Side suburbs and West Cleveland. Now I’m moving on to the east side. Only doing single family homes and these are the homes listed with area brokerages.  As comparisons go, it’s pretty interesting, especially since it deals with months in which it’s [...]

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We keep asking, is the economy improving, are housing sales improving?  And lots of people have weighed in.  Here are eight communities to start off this type of comparison/discussion as it relates to home sales in NE Ohio. 
I’m comparing sales in these eight communities ranging from April through July in each of the two years. [...]

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Real estate is local and in fact, hyper local. Where we live is so subjective. While proximity to your kids’ schools and friends, or where you work can play a part, so much else goes into that decision.
I have an open house this Sunday (2 to 4pm) at 1279 Mathews.  A very large colonial in [...]

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Many of you are looking to take advantage of the Federal Tax Credit that allows first time home buyers to get up to $8,000 tax credit, depending on price of their home.  Could the credit be extended? Sure, but as of now, it expires on November 30th.  What does this mean? It means you have [...]

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Good morning everyone. Wanted to post some  general Cuyahoga County housing data before I head out to my brokers open house ina a few minutes.  These stats reflect sales with area brokerages and they compare April and March sales info for this year. The May results are not yet in, I have a feeling they may [...]

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Let’s call this a sample of east side of Cleveland inner ring suburban home sales for the month of May.  I’m doing South Euclid, Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights. Cleveland Heights has twice the housing inventory for sale as the other two communities but also the highest number of homes under contract.  These homes are all [...]

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Decided it was time to do stats in a different way for a change. Maybe measuring things this way will be useful. Any questions, please let me know.  I’m looking at the following:
1) sales between Nov and May in both 2008 and 2009
2) sales in two east side and two west side communities (Lakewood, Fairview, [...]

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Most of you are probably out in the yard enjoying this glorious NE Ohio Saturday weather. Some of you may be surfing the web and interested in how homes have sold in Fairview Park. If so, this is your lucky day lol.  These homes were listed with area brokerages and that’s why I have access [...]

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