Cleveland Real Estate News

How non-green can you get on Earth Day? Ask RTA. Maybe it’s a trial balloon, or maybe it’s a serious consideration. What am I talking about? The potential to eliminate weekend bus routes. Wouldn’t that be helpful to the NE Ohio economy? Not to mention use of fuel. Sigh.  You can read about this here  on [...]

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One of the new home owners in Park Square (on Public Square) talked about loving the windows. Amen to that.  I love this building and the views.  You look out over Euclid Avenue and see the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial from your living room.  And the Old Stone Church.  It’s truly spectacular, day time or [...]

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Most Clevelanders will be reading the Plain Dealer’s list of 2009 goals for Cleveland. I applaud them for having ideas, especially the one that talks about how we need to move forward not kvetch over what has not happened in the past.  I would love to read your thoughts on their list, and also your [...]

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If you’ve attended meetings at which Mayor Jackson is present, or if you’ve read about his comments to candidates during the Presidential election, you know he has an Urban Agenda. Apparently it’s about to be fleshed out. Crain’s Cleveland’s  Jay Miller writes about it this week, Apparently studies have concluded that rehabbing the InnerBelt Bridge [...]

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It’s Monday and time to head out and start the day, after some reflection on this past Saturday and Sunday’s work. Are you single and looking to buy a house or condo? As I mentioned in a post, there is a nice collection of Downtown condos for sale at very reasonable prices. But I’d like [...]

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This is being proposed in Rockville Maryland, developing ‘villages’ along their transit stops. Having lived in Rockville for quite some time, I watched the traffic get worse and worse.  I watched a mayor say his claim to fame was the building of this huge furniture store on The Pike. Yes I know that art and [...]

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The real estate planets were aligned today. Two sets of clients with the same available date to see Downtown condos, and exactly the same price range. So I played Bill Murray in Ground Hog Day Cleveland style and took one set of clients to see these condos and then turned around and did it all [...]

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I’m thinking yes and that doesn’t surprise anyone who reads my posts.  What do you think? Does it make sense to change our paradigm on infrastructure? I know we can’t abandon our existing highways and fixing the Innerbelt Bridge for example, makes perfect sense.  After all, even buses take the Innerbelt Bridge   Brewed Fresh [...]

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This passed the House yesterday, and yeah I know the Senate is busy with pressing Bailout issues; but some in the Senate could be multi-tasking (why not!)  The Passenger Rail Act is needed so we can have monies available to assist in rail projects (yes like the Ohio Hub, but we do already have Amtrak [...]

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The PD alerted me to the fact that The Census Bureau has released statistics for 2007 in this article by Rich Exner. h/t to their chart of NE Ohio, Ohio and National stat comparisons.  The PD points out that the median age of people who live in Cleveland (and also Cuyahoga County) are about 40 [...]

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