Cleveland Real Estate News

When I think of Fairview Park I think of the color green.  The Metro Park is fabulous and you could hike for miles.  Big Met golf course (both the Park and golf course sit at the border of Cleveland and Fairview).  City parks and recreation areas.  Fairview really takes advantage of her natural surroundings.  And [...]

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These are the last three East Side communities I am doing this week.  Each one is unique and yet because of their locations to each other, home buyers do sometimes search all three.  Especially if they are moving here from out of town.  Pepper Pike is a city of about 6,000 people.  Home to Ursuline [...]

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South Euclid has 262 single family active listings and Cleveland Heights has 379.  Yes, a lot of inventory.  On the plus side, who wouldn’t want to live there? Take the Coventry area alone, as illustrated by the Coventry Village website which is a cool, quirky, wonderful entity in itself. South Euclid has a dog park, and [...]

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Mayfield Heights and Mayfield Village are two separate entities, both great places to live and work. Thriving small business communities and great restaurants in both!  The housing market looks healthy and I know a few people who moved there this past year – and they love it.  Anyway, here is the analysis of single family [...]

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I’m excited to be able to connect with you ….my Christmas Eve present was a computer virus!  I have my computer back and so it’s time to blog.  And since it’s January 2011, it’s time for the home sale series.  This year I’m going to give you 2010 stats but also compare them to 2009 [...]

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South Euclid is a candy store for house geeks like myself.  Great housing stock, single families that are generally not new but either in amazing condition or updated and amazing. And a housing stock that includes a variety of condo styles as well as multi-families with a unique twist.  Normally you can tell by driving [...]

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I have a client looking for ranch homes, and Westlake is a great place to find ranches of various styles, ages and prices.  So along with my search for her, here is a look at what buyers have liked in Westlake in recent months. First, there are 177 single family homes listed with area brokers [...]

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Beachwood City’s home page  will tell you the truth, that it’s a destination city in NE Ohio.  If you are moving here from a city like Chicago or Miami or Dallas, you might want to put an investigation of Beachwood as a place to live on your list.  The taxes are lower than some of [...]

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I love Berea because it’s a great mix of the old and new.  It started out with a huge sandstone factory/quarry, added a substantial globe-making industry (sold mostly to schools), has a small town feel (with only about 19,000 residents as of the 2000 census) yet lots of modern housing.  It’s the home of the [...]

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It depends.  Michael Murphy analyzes the issue in a recent article for Market Watch.  He says it’s a great time to buy real estate (foreclosed or short sale).  He says some markets may be different, and some people may think he’s telling people to do this now and that’s too soon.  I agree with him, [...]

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