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Make your Columbus Backyard a Greenspot and get a Discounted Rain Barrel
June 30th, 2011 categories: Real Estate News
We’ve had a rain barrel sitting in our garage for nearly a year now and almost every day I think about how I should hook it up. It’s painfully easy but I’ve just not gotten around to it and we haven’t decided on the proper spot.
This is a fresh program from the City of Columbus…
For [...]
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“Delayed Financing Rule” : Pay Cash Then Cash-Out Next Day | The Mortgage Reports
June 29th, 2011 categories: Real Estate News
Delayed Financing Rule : Pay Cash For A Home, Cash-Out Refi Next Day
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If you paid cash for a home within [...]
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Central Ohio May Housing Update – Getting Warmer?
June 28th, 2011 categories: Real Estate News
Remember that when you read headlines about ‘the real estate market’ (unless you’re reading them here) the real estate market in question is not your market. It’s a mythical national housing market where the numbers make no sense when trying to make home buying decisions locally.
Below is the latest from the Columbus Board of Realtors. [...]
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Rent or Buy? | Credit Sesame Blog
June 23rd, 2011 categories: Real Estate News
via creditsesame.com
This site came up with a nice interactive price-to-rent ratio infographic.
Posted via email from Sights and Sounds of Columbus, Ohio Real Estate
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Can the Scioto Mile, weeks from opening, Save the Southern End of Downtown Columbus Condos?
June 13th, 2011 categories: Real Estate News
Today WOSU radio had a piece (partially excerpted below) asking this very question. The new and fabulous Columbus Commons and this Scioto Mile park will be a draw for downtown Columbus. They might help sell homes, they might bring some people downtown, but they are merely a piece of the puzzle.
The South end of downtown has more [...]
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How Long and How Big? Tracking Price Reductions in the Columbus Real Estate Market
May 23rd, 2011 categories: Real Estate News
How long until that home you love has a price reduction? How big of a reduction will it be?
Until about a month ago, these were difficult questions for the average Columbus Home Buyer to answer. Heck, there’s no easy way for a Columbus Realtor to answer those questions without diving into data and pulling out a calculator.
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Clintonville Homes for Sale and Sold – Clintonville Real Estate Market Update
May 17th, 2011 categories: Real Estate News
Homes on the market: As of today there are 202 Active Clintonville homes for sale.
Averaging 1,671 sf,
$232,523 list price
$150.08/sf and
92 days on market.
If nothing else, the Clintonville real estate market has been very steady of late….
Currently, there are 50 Clintonville Homes in Contract
–contingent on financing/inspections as of today: 40
Averaging 1550 sf
$197,312 list price
$138.34/sf
53 days on market
One [...]
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REO Volume Plummets; Homes Now Sell At 20% Discount
May 13th, 2011 categories: Real Estate News
This post is via Dan Green at the mortgagereports.com. If you don’t read him, you should. My highlights include:
“It now takes 400 days to Foreclosure” From initial default to bank repo — then more time before it hits the active real estate market in your area–anywhere from two weeks to [...]
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Old National Road Celebration – America’s first Federally-funded interstate highway runs through Columbus
April 27th, 2011 categories: Columbus News, Olde Towne East, Real Estate News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 26, 2011
CELEBRATION OF THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL ROAD
AND
RIBBON-CUTTING FOR OLD NATIONAL ROAD CONDOMINIUMS
(Columbus, OH) The Ohio National Road Association (”ONRA”), in partnership with Columbus Compact Corporation (”the Compact”), will host the City of Columbus’ celebration of the Bicentennial of the start of construction of the Historic National Road on [...]
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