Cleveland Real Estate News

It’s Blog Action Day  and this year they want everyone to focus and post on poverty. Here I wrote about services for the aging and my thoughts have been focused on that for a few days. Few would argue that poverty affects our aging and senior population.
A lot of what gets written about the elderly and poverty [...]

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There are tons of articles today about the Treasury/Administration decision to spend some of the billions allocated to bail out issues on private banks. Via stocks. I picked one to link here that highlights the mixed feelings they had about making this decision.  After all, I’ve been identifying the Feds as the new liberals but I [...]

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Yesterday I posted  about active listings, contingent and pending and closed sales – you can read what that means here at the beginning of yesterday’s post. Today we are looking at home sale trends on Cleveland’s East Side. I picked six zip codes and looked at activity since February 1st:
44103
86 homes on the market now
11 sold since [...]

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The answer is yes. We have many homes on the market here in Cleveland, and yes we have our foreclosure issues; the true predictor can be seen in contingent and pending sales. My friend and fellow Realtor® Bonnie Erickson in Minnesota talks about predicting sales here.
What does this mean? A home is listed as active [...]

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Earlier this week someone was arrested in Lakewood. Today the PD reports the Cleveland Heights police have uncovered a copper theft ring.
How did the alleged suspects in the ‘ring’ decide what homes to hit?
“….The burglars based what houses to hit on information they gathered from an unlikely but official source: the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Office, [...]

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A few months ago I purchased a spiffy new cell phone, the LG Voyager. It’s the first phone I’ve had that I’m absolutely in love with, but I digress……when I opened the box, one of the items Verizon included was a mailing bag with ‘Cell Phones For Soldiers’ information on it.  It said that all [...]

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The PD interviewed a few brokers and presented reports issued by our multiple listing service (NORMLS). The reports cover the fact that home sellers are still experiencing declines in the prices they are getting for their homes (and as I say when I do my reports for you, NORMLS covers counties like Geauga, Cuyahoga, Medina [...]

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Do you blog? If so, does anyone ever ask you why? I would tell anyone from NE Ohio considering becoming a blogger that it’s worth it just to attend Meet The Blogger events.  Tonight we pumped up on good java at Gypsy Beans and had a conversation with Adam Wasserman, CEO of The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County [...]

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On first glance, Latrobe looks like any other small town in Western Pennsylvania; modest homes built on rolling hills, a creek that meanders throughout the area (Loyal Hannah Creek is pictured here). I went for a rejuvenating visit with cousins, and my cousin Richard and I took a short hike along the Creek.  Don’t let [...]

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The latest edition of the Carnival of Ohio Politics  is up and running. There are many good reads, but I’d like to point out one post – The Dean of Cincinnati (Media Beacon) regarding Ohio’s graduation tests which are upon Ohio students starting this week.
Justin Jeffre has introduced a complaint to start an investigation claiming that [...]

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