Cleveland Real Estate News

This is amazing news, everyone.  The Cleveland Museum of Art and private collectors who have an amazing art foundation,  are joining forces to create a satellite museum site.  This is great news in itself.  But the best part is, they are saving and preserving a beautiful building that has been known as the Oblak Building [...]

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Refinance your home.  Yes, as this PD article states, some people have had issues with HARP loans and really need more than 25% loan to value.  However, read through the article and see that lenders are coming up with their own initiatives to help people refinance (imagine that,  a non-governmental solution!) I’m asking all of [...]

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It happens when a house or building is unique; when it distinguishes itself from other properties also looking for good tenants.  There are obvious ways to do this: make sure laundry facilities exist in the units or at least on site.  have a dishwasher in the kitchen or make sure cable and Internet or even [...]

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When new electronic ‘toys’ come to the market, many say “I’ll wait until they are produced in more volume and then buy when it’s cheaper.” Apparently the ‘cheaper’ time has arrived for solar panel power. Now you might be reading this and saying to yourself, self, I live in NE Ohio where it’s cloudy 9 [...]

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CityWheels was a car sharing company. Innovative and it worked well enough over the past five years to allow them to expand their fleet.  I’m going to copy and past the memo they sent which is self explanatory. If you need a car  these cars could be a good deal and have supposedly been maintained [...]

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SB5 is a hot issue. Governor Kasich drew his line in the sand but now says (for whatever reason) he wants to sit down with the Union reps and talk out a plan. We just went through what seemed like universal public outrage at our elected officials in Congress because no one was willing to [...]

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There was this article on WKYC’s website this afternoon.  Economists are always using new construction figures as benchmarks in how our economy is doing.  Here in NE Ohio, I’m not sure it’s that important. What do you think?  We have a healthy housing stock and many homes for sale. In addition to homes for sale [...]

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This bright woman came here with $20 and a scholarship and now she has a building on East 40th and is hoping to attract more immigrants to our area to increase our work force.  This is one of those stories you don’t hear much about but happens (maybe on a smaller scale at times) frequently.  [...]

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I’ve posted a few times about articles on our Cleveland end, touting good things happening in Pittsburgh. Now we have the reverse with an article by Christi Parson and James Oliphant about how NE Ohio is weathering this latest recession better than prior times…attributed in part to smart restructuring of businesses to manufacturing products for [...]

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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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