Cleveland Real Estate News

The Daily Beast  has identified 75 hard to maneuver highways during commuting hours. They list length of the congestion(by miles), the speed (or lack of) cars can travel during these periods, among other things.  I wasn’t very surprised that the Capital Beltway in D.C. was #3.  It took me honing a certain mentality to do [...]

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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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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 know I sometimes post futuristic ideas for housing styles. But this time, I am excited to talk about a house built by an urban planner in the Washington D.C. area.  He built it for himself and it’s gorgeous (see photo). I love the clean lines, I love how it fits into the style of the neighborhood. [...]

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Last year I wrote this post about the proposed Eco Village Cottages  at W. 58th and Pear. It’s an exciting project, and this past week it moved closer to fruition and occupancy with a ground breaking ceremony. These homes will meet Leeds standards for energy efficiency, are all of the same design (I think there are [...]

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Transit oriented development (TOD) has been a hot button for a decade. I was on the bus yesterday and passed a gas station on Lorain selling regular fuel for $4.05/gallon. We have one of the original transit systems in the Country right here in NE Ohio, in the form of The Shaker Rapid. Many of [...]

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This article from NPR highlights some stats about markets where transit exists compared to areas of the same state where it does not. Kathleen Schalch writes about a pattern developing: neighborhoods that are as she says relatively unscathed by falling prices (or at least ‘scathed’ less if that’s a word). The article talks about a [...]

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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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