Cleveland Real Estate News

First short sale I ever ‘tried’ got to it’s 13th month without a response from the bank.  My clients loved the house and to be honest, a good counterpart in Millcreek  did not become available during that time.  13th month, finally, a good new listing which we went to see and within 8 weeks we [...]

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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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Just as there were many stories in the Naked City, there are many different types of foreclosure and loan modification and refinance stories covering the last few years …and many of them could make your blood curl.  Here are three examples from CNN Money on foreclosure threats that happened through no actual fault of the [...]

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Over the past few months I’ve written an offer for a family relocating here from Tennessee, I’ve begun a home search with someone who moved here from California, and sold a house to a gal who was transferred here for work from Indianapolis.  Now I have a client who moved here from Manhattan, a buyer [...]

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It’s not a top ten list, but I did read a few interesting things this month that got me back to this blog.  (I know, it’s about time).  I missed blogging, but I just wasn’t feeling  my way to doing it! Best House Decoration Idea I’ve Heard or Read in 2011  This was something I [...]

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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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