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Just a reminder.  Valuation appeals are accepted from December to March 31.  Your chances of winning are about 50 – 50 so it’s well worth doing, but must be done correctly.   Lock [...]

The Utica shale gas resources are forecasted to bring an addition 65,000 at an average $50k per year to the long suffering Northeast sector of Ohio.  The area has been Ohio’s highest chronic [...]

The first half of 2011 saw strong leasing and buy activity, but after the debt limit negotiations last summer, the 2nd half was gripped by uncertainty and near certainty of a double dip.  Fears [...]

Better times continue to get better for Columbus and Central Ohio residential real estate as 1,125 sales closed last month, a 6% increase over January 2011. Better yet is that 1,845 residential [...]

DQ News reported that 14,523 new and resale homes sold last month.  That was way down from December by 24.5% but up .4% from January 2011.  Normally, sales are down from December to January [...]

Commercial real estate lenders are expecting to build on a very good 2011 with a stronger 2012.  Barring international shocks such as a war with Iran or disruption in oil supplies, 2012 should [...]

Randyl Drummer from CoStar news writes, and I agree, that retail rents will begin to rise this year. It’s not so much a huge increase in demand as much as there is virtually no increase in [...]

I though this also might be of interest to a few of my readers.  A comment came up on a residential blog named Active Rain that I also wanted to address here.  I’m on the [...]

For the first time in five years, a majority of banks are considering growing their loan portfolio due to improving conditions in just about all sectors of the economy. There’s neither an [...]

Valuation appeals are accepted from December to March 31.  Your chances of winning are about 50 – 50 so it’s well worth doing, but must be done correctly.   Take a look at the short [...]

It’s back!  Business is cranking again and the phone is ringing.  CoStar news reports that the dollar volume of commercial real estate transactions are back up to historical long term average and [...]

The unseasonably warm January weather has helped keep many of the new Columbus Ohio commercial real estate downtown projects on or ahead of schedule. Walker Evans from Columbus Underground brings [...]