Cleveland Real Estate News

Glad they caught up with this man who allegedly helped perpetuate housing market value decline all over the County.  But I have questions related to the ones he ‘flipped’ in Cleveland.  The City of Cleveland requires every home owner with an accepted contract to sell their home, to fill out a disclosure form that states [...]

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Foreclosures still play a large part in home selling statistics for the City of Parma.  There are 519 single family homes listed for sale as of today.  Many more homes than any of the other communities I’ve researched so far in this study.  In the ‘make lemonade out of lemons’ category, there are a lot [...]

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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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If these stats can be believed, the Midwest had much stronger housing recovery this year than the West and East. NuWire Investor writes that housing sales show strong growth.  “….The Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, Ohio metro area followed with 20.5% quarterly and 62% yearly gains….” I certainly saw three times the number of buyers/sellers as last year, but [...]

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My professional opinion is healthy!  The number of homes in inventory in some areas still exceeds 300 listings, but there are currently only 95 homes for sale giving buyers a good choice without being unhealthily excessive.  The average listing price in Fairview as of today is $178,011  and the average amount of time these homes [...]

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We keep asking, is the economy improving, are housing sales improving?  And lots of people have weighed in.  Here are eight communities to start off this type of comparison/discussion as it relates to home sales in NE Ohio.  I’m comparing sales in these eight communities ranging from April through July in each of the two [...]

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Good morning everyone. Wanted to post some  general Cuyahoga County housing data before I head out to my brokers open house ina a few minutes.  These stats reflect sales with area brokerages and they compare April and March sales info for this year. The May results are not yet in, I have a feeling they may [...]

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Decided it was time to do stats in a different way for a change. Maybe measuring things this way will be useful. Any questions, please let me know.  I’m looking at the following: 1) sales between Nov and May in both 2008 and 2009 2) sales in two east side and two west side communities [...]

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Most of you are probably out in the yard enjoying this glorious NE Ohio Saturday weather. Some of you may be surfing the web and interested in how homes have sold in Fairview Park. If so, this is your lucky day lol.  These homes were listed with area brokerages and that’s why I have access [...]

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