Cleveland Real Estate News

The photos ‘got me’ before I even explored the Low Impact Woodland Homes  website. I was thinking back to exploring the midlands in England back in the day. Lo and behold, this IS a United Kingdom site. The  gentleman whose house is featured at the link I posted, built it in Wales, with help but [...]

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According to Case-Schiller, our local housing prices were down 7.3% over the past year. You can read the report (three page pdf) here. They reported that Nashville was an area that saw some growth, as did quite a few of the places they studied ). One of the keys to growth instead of no growth [...]

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I can’t get the idea out of my head that we are missing a chance to have more locally grown stuff by not utilizing our air rights. Air rights usually apply to the space above buildings, which could be an office building or a condo development.  Or even a house if you put on the [...]

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Cleveland has a land bank, and it’s going to grow once they start tearing down more vacant houses. You can buy the land on the cheap ($100 for a buildable lot), but then what to put on it? Seemed like a good time to browse the net and find out what was available in pre-fab [...]

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Standard and Poor’s latest ranking/stats in the form of their Shiller report on housing is out. The PD blog post about it by Shaheen Samavati is here. I’m always harping about how real estate is local and these results point to that fact. As some of you who read this blog regularly know (and I thank you!), [...]

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Euclid is one of NE Ohio’s communities hit hard because of the foreclosure issue. The good news is that homes are selling in Euclid. You can read about Euclid’s history here. The drill: these homes are listed on our Multiple Listing Service, NORMLS and are listed by area brokerages. Here are April 2008 stats: There are 683 [...]

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Could we do this here in NE Ohio? Should we do this? Read this article about an idea in Montgomery County Maryland to mandate certain green standards for all new construction projects.

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I read a long article this morning that actually covered quite a few angles on this issue. Is It Time To Buy Real Estate by Vicki Gerson. It’s worth reading, it reiterates some points we’ve (myself and commenters) made on this blog in prior posts. And of course I don’t agree with everything they say. One of the [...]

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My last post dealt with single family home sale activity in March 2007. This is the condo side of the report, for the same zip code areas: Data includes condo sale activity through local brokerages and our computer system (MLS) Data covers condo sales from March 1, 2007 to the present Rocky River 44116: 2 [...]

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Are we ready for Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in Downtown Cleveland – and Northeast Ohio in general? There is an article in Crain’s Cleveland today about the Euclid Avenue design and it’s focus on the new RTA stops there. The ‘hope’ is to attract mixed use development on Euclid Avenue (shops, office, housing). Joseph Calabrese [...]

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