What is selling in Downtown Columbus? Clintonville? Bexley? Grandview? Olde Towne East?

August 19th, 2008 categories: Bexley, Downtown, For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers, German Village, Grandview, Market Updates, Olde Towne East, Short North

742 Oak Street - Come See It!I have a listing in Olde Towne East, nearly downtown, at 742 Oak Street.  It is a fabulous 1710 sq foot brick home. 2 Bedrooms, an office, a fantastic master bath, half bath, great yard, walk to a million places, priced at $199,900.  It is priced right. In fact, it’s a screaming good deal because it is absolutely move-in ready.  I consider the main competition for the home all of Olde Towne East and every downtown Condo because the price points and location are so similar. Of course the Oak Street home doesn’t have any condo fees.

Tonight I’m talking to the owner about why we haven’t had too many showings and no offers.  I’ll tell him that in the 109 days the home has been on the market, only TEN homes OR condos have sold between $150–250,000 on the entire Near East Side AND Downtown.  Nine of those were, in fact, downtown condos and the other was a bank owned foreclosure steal of a deal on Bryden Road.  Only 6 others are in contract currently, five of which are Downtown Columbus condos and one of which is a much bigger home on Franklin Avenue in Olde Towne East on the market for 575 days.  Talk about Quiet.

Above that price point, it gets a little bit better, but not much.  12 condos downtown have been listed as sold in the MLS (remember, that doesn’t include a few key projects like North Bank) and 3 Near East Homes, all very nice with huge square feet have sold since early May but that’s it.

In the same time period, Greater Clintonville had roughly just over 100 homes sell between $150–250,000.  It’s been a brisk summer there for that price point, with an average days on market of 84. 

While these inner-ring suburb markets don’t generally conjure ideas of homes under $250,000, take a look at these markets since May 10 in this same price range:

  • Grandview and MarbleCliff – 21 Homes
  • Upper Arlington – 65 homes
  • Bexley – 29 Homes
  • Worthington – 49 homes

The Short North and German Village are slow too but somewhat more stable markets with most homes priced above $250,000. 

German Village/Schumacher Place had 10 homes sell since May 10 in that 150–$250,000 price range but 7 of them were likely already in contract in early May.

Greater Short North/Italian Village/Harrison West saw 32 homes sell since early May, most of which were condos or fixer uppers.  As I looked through the lists from all over town, I realized that I had been in and seen many of them first hand.  So, if you’re looking in that price range inside I-270, I’m your guy.

In the meantime, Come on Columbus, rediscover the housing stock and location of Columbus’ Near East side. Come visit 742 Oak St.

Of Possible Interest:  Just in time for City Hop - April and May ‘08 Downtown Columbus Condo Sales

Franklin Park Conservatory - Even More Beautiful?

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Fantastic New Listing for sale - 993 South Roosevelt in South Bexley

August 18th, 2008 categories: Bexley, For Home Buyers

You’ll fall in love with 993 South Roosevelt’s open rooms, the gumwood moldings the oak floors, the curb appeal, the new windows and the breakfast nook. Nearly 1500 sq ft of charm, convenience and easy living. Big full basement, nice kitchen, superb baths, spacious master off the upstairs landing.

Did I mention the new hearty plank siding (with a 50 year transferable warranty!)  The upstairs bath has subway tiles in the shower and wainscoting around the perimeter, a laundry chute and an enormous linen closet.  The backyard is chock full of beautiful perennials, as is the front.  Wonderful block on South Roosevelt in Bexley, wonderful home, wonderful opportunity.

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What Style of Homes can you Find for Sale in Columbus?

July 1st, 2008 categories: About Me?, Bexley, Clintonville, German Village, Grandview, Real Estate News, Short North

Victorian Village and German Village, for instance, have very different housing stock. How can you know what style a particular home is?As fascinated as I am in home styles, I’m no architect. When I describe the architecture of my listings or homes I am showing, I find it helps buyers appreciate their value. While they both have “old brick homes,” Victorian Village and German Village have very different housing stock. Although I can tell a cupola from a parapet, or an eyebrow window from a palladian, I’m sometimes stumped or unsure and don’t like to throw something out there for the sake of looking like I know what I’m talking about.

July is home styles month here on Columbus Homes Blog and I’ll be reviewing different styles with intermittent posts over the coming weeks.  Every house, no matter how plain, has a style. Style comes in part from ornamental details like columns and moldings and in part from structural features, such as the placement of the windows and the pitch of the roof. Yet, identifying that style can be a baffling process. Is it Spanish Colonial or Mediterranean? Italianate or Federal? And, what about the newly constructed home that seems to break all the “rules”?

Most houses do not fit precisely into any one category. Older homes may have gone through many renovations, taking on the features of several different architectural trends. Newer homes often combine ideas from a variety of styles and historic periods. Details help to give homes style, character and romance.  In Columbus, you can find many different styles in many different neighborhoods and while there may be more to choose from in Clintonville than Hilliard, even a newer community has homes with character.

More often than not, I find other Realtors, especially suburban Realtors, have no idea what style a home is. Painting a broad stroke here, to tell the style of a home begin by closely observing a few key characteristics. This simple checklist below identifies some main features to look for. Although there are no pat answers, each of these features suggests styles to consider.

1. What shape is the house, overall?

  • Rectangular and symmetrical: National, Colonial, Neoclassical, Greek Revival, Italianate
  • Square and box-like: American Foursquare
  • L-shaped: Folk and National styles
  • Complicated and asymmetrical: Queen Anne and other Victorian styles, Chateauesque
  • Rounded corners: Pueblo, Art Moderne
  • Single story or 1½ story: Cape Cod, Ranch, Craftsman, Cottage styles

    2. Does the roof have any of these features?

  • Unusually steep pitch: Gothic Revival and other Victorian styles, Tudor
  • Unusually low pitch: Craftsman, Prairie, Ranch, Monterey, and Spanish styles
  • Flat: Italianate, Beaux Arts, Pueblo, Mediterranean, and Modernistic
  • Gambrel: Dutch Colonial
  • Mansard: Second Empire and other French-inspired styles
  • Hipped: American Foursquare, Colonial styles, Victorian styles
  • Salt box: Colonial
  • Flared eaves: French styles, Craftsman, Prairie
  • Round towers: Queen Anne, Romanesque, Chateauesque, French styles
  • Cupolas: Italianate, Greek Revival, Second Empire
  • Rounded parapets: Mission

    3. Is the house sided with any of these materials?

  • Adobe: Pueblo, Monterey, Spanish Colonial Revival
  • Stucco: Mission, Tudor, Spanish styles
  • Rough stone: Romanesque
  • Patterned wood shingles: Victorian styles
  • Half-timbering: Tudor, Stick, Queen Anne
  • Cedar shingles: Victorian Shingle, Craftsman, Tudor

    4. Does the house have any of these window types?

  • Multi-paned: Adam, Georgian, Neoclassical
  • Diamond-paned: Tudor, Prairie
  • Palladian: Adam, Colonial Revival, Neoclassical
  • Round or elliptical: Adam, Neoclassical
  • Oriel: Tudor, Gothic Revival, Chateauesque
  • Casement: Tudor, Craftsman, Dutch Colonial, Spanish styles, modern styles
  • Pointed: Gothic Revival
  • Rounded with “eyebrow” hoods: Italianate
  • Fanlights: Adam, Neoclassical, Colonial Revival

    5. Do you notice any of these details?

  • Dentil moldings: Georgian, Adam, Colonial styles
  • Garlands or floral ornaments: Federal, Adam, Beaux Arts
  • Turned spindles: Queen Anne, Carpenter Gothic, Folk Victorian
  • Zigzags or chevrons: Art Deco
  • Shutters: Cape Cod and other Colonial styles
  • Round, fluted columns: Greek Revival, Adam, Neoclassical, Beaux Arts
  • Square or trapezoid porch supports: Craftsman, Prairie, Mission, American Foursquare
  • Little or no ornamentation: National and Folk styles, Cape Cod, Ranch, Modern styles

    *This post has beenn Adapted from an article by BY JACKIE CRAVEN that appears on realtor.org from a post circa January 1, 2004.

 

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The Bexley Real Estate Market - Like a Pizza Delivery Bag

June 16th, 2008 categories: Bexley

This 3400 sf, five bedroom, 3.5 bath South Dawson Avenue home sold in May for $585,000Hot and Insulated. 

It seems to matter very little what else is going on in the surrounding Columbus Real estate markets, Bexley has it’s own vibe and popularity.  German Village young professionals will always have babies and move to Bexley and folks moving to Columbus will always fall in love with the housing stock, schools and proximity to downtown. 

Bexley saw 39 home sales in April and May.  They averaged $142.10/sf, 2128 sf and 133 days on the market.  28 Bexley homes are currently in contract – 2 of them with home sale contingencies.  Those in contract also averaged about four months on the market. 

Active Homes for Sale in Bexley above $580,000 have been on the market 115 days, 5000 sf and $243/sf.

Active homes for sale in Bexley between $350,000 and $480,000 (23 listings) average about 157 days on market, 2700 sf and $184/sf.

Active Bexley Homes for Sale under $350,000 (a whopping 73 homes) average 77 days on market with a median days on market of only 42. They average around $132/sf, and 1600 sf.

If you’re looking for at least a 4 bedroom, 2 full bath home in Central Bexley, expect to see around 20 listings averaging 3,000 sf and $163/sf.

That awesome Bexley Pool is open for it’s second year.  Dive in.  Bexley is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Have you picked up your Bexley Bracelet?

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Bexley Home Owners’ Property Taxes help fund Highly Visible Bexley Police Force

April 8th, 2008 categories: Bexley

The Police in Bexley are everywhere all the time!I work in Bexley, on Main Street.  I find it uncanny how often I see a Bexley Police cruiser out and about while I am also out and about in Bexley.  Whether I’m showing homes, on my way to or from work or home or the kid’s school, I swear to you I see a Bexley Police car patrolling or stopped during that trip — At least one, often two or three.

Not just on Main Street either, Broad Street, Drexel, Fair, Remington, even Gould, it doesn’t matter, they’re everywhere all the time.  That kind of presence surely helps enforce that 25 MPH speed limit on Main Street I find so excruciating and it has to make the people of Bexley feel happy, safe and secure knowing that although they pay higher taxes than their Columbus Neighbors, the Bexley Police Department is on the streets instead of hanging out at HQ.

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Bexley Real Estate Update - Sold so far this year - check out the hybrid map

March 25th, 2008 categories: Bexley

these 23 homes have sold so far this year in the bexley school districtMostly, I’m just showing off this cool aerial view with the homes marked on the map and I used Bexley because it’s such a small municipality.  These homes averaged $438,000 and 129 days on the market.  There are currently 76 active listings in the Bexley School District.

23 Homes have sold in Bexley so far this year.  Ranging from $80,000 to $2,750,000, (and those two (#s 1 and 15) were probably within about 1/3 mile of each other) these 23 homes were relatively evenly spread out between Central Bexley, South Bexley and North Bexley. 

 

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Speaking of Main Street - Why is this Box Building OK in Eastmoor?

February 27th, 2008 categories: Bexley, Columbus News

Speaking of Main Street, why is this OK? It shouldn't happen in Eastmoor.Since the city has finished up the South of Main Sewer project in Eastmoor, I’ve been driving by this soon-to-be auto parts store (and one-time site of Columbus’ last Skyline Chili) almost every day and wondering why in the world it’s OK to build the equivalent of a giant pole barn on East Main Street in Eastmoor.

I’ve recently had a good number of buyers interested in the Eastmoor area.  Eastmoor is a fantastic community with great homes, decent $/sf and a sense of pride.  They have a strongish civic association but the lack of checks and balances at City Hall allows ugly projects like this to built this close to the city center. 

I can’t imagine this eyesore is what the city of Columbus had in mind when they, almost a year ago, approved the Eastmoor Main and Broad Corridor Revitalization Plan in an attempt to guide the redevelopment of those critical commercial corridors.  

Eastmoor eyesoreWhen I drove by the other day and saw them pouring the parking lot that runs to Main Street, I thought this is another example of why development for development’s sake is a recipe for undesirable neighborhood streetscapes.  Bexley city council would never have allowed this building a mile West and Columbus’ Development Department should not have allowed it here.

Eastmoor was annexed to the city of Columbus in 1937. It is bounded by Bexley on the west, Whitehall on the east, Livingston Avenue to the south, and the CSX Railroad to the north.

Possibly of Interest:Berwick and Eastmoor - Two of Columbus’ Neighborhood Gems

43209 - last 3 months - nice chart 

What Neighborhoods Comprise Columbus?

 

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Is Bexley getting a new Real Estate office?

December 21st, 2007 categories: Bexley

Between Guiseppes and the barber shopCorrection Update:

I now know (01-08-08) that an HER Satellite office will soon open in this Drexel Ave Storefront. It will be nice for our Coldwell Banker King Thompson office to have company inside the Bexley city limits.

Meanwhile, the HER office on Main Street will continue to thrive in its current location.

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