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Columbus ranked 10th best in the country of the 50 largest metropolitan areas according to a recent report by Wells Fargo Bank. Columbus also outranked every other major metropolitan area in the [...]

Construction started a couple of weeks ago on a $370,000,000 project to add 3,200 beds to the OSU student housing to comply with the new requirement that sophomores in addition to freshman live [...]

In addition to the much discussed teardown and redevelopment of the Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium into an exhibit, museum and open-air amphitheater, the 33 acre greenway park along the [...]

A new 176,290 square foot Walmart Supercenter is going in just north of Hard Road on Sawmill in what used to be the Olde Sawmill Square retail center that’s been mostly empty and decaying [...]

 July 2013 sales at 25,419 new and resale homes and condos returned to historical normal levels due to increased inventory.  The long term average for July is 25,541 sales. Median price was [...]

The Columbus and Central Ohio market is as on fire as it has ever been with July 2013 sales of 2,855 homes posting near all time monthly records sales for last month with only August 2005 and [...]

True, this is a little off topic, but I post my videos every year for a few car events and the world’s biggest is the Woodward Dream Cruise held last weekend in the suburbs north of [...]

Resale home sales were down in June amid a very tight supply, but prices way up.  Bubble time is coming again and then we all know what’s after that.  We generally go approximately 14 years [...]

Last weekend was the annual Columbus Art Festival and it was better than ever.  Even the weather cooperated this year and the crowds turned in mass.  Downtown Columbus at ground level is [...]

In DLA Piper’s annual survey of the commercial real estate industry, 85 percent of senior executives at commercial real estate brokerages, REITs, etc., hold a bullish outlook for the remainder of [...]

Home sales hit a record high last month with 2,390 closing versus the previous high of 2,286 in April 2004.  This is a 30 percent increase from April last year. Year to date, prices are up 1.5 [...]

DQ News reports that Los Angeles and Southern California home sales reached their highest level since 2006 and median price reached five year high. A total of 21,415 new and resale homes were [...]

Daily finance had an interesting interview with Jeff Speck, author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time.  Jeff Speck is an architect and city planner in Washington [...]

Of the top 200 U.S. markets, Columbus ranked second with a score of 30, only behind Houston (33) and followed by Orlando (29), Charlotte (28) and Salt Lake City (28). The job creation score was [...]

The Columbus and Central Ohio MSA new and resale homes report show that the market remains strong and is getting stronger. Homes sales for the quarter were up 17.6 percent over first quarter last [...]

New High end apartments in the vicinity of downtown or the short north are commanding up to $3,000 per month.  A wave of swanky apartments are coming online within the next 12 months with two [...]

Median price hits 56 month high, up 23.4 percent from March of last year.  Much of that increase however, can be attributed to a big change in product mix as sales in higher priced neighborhoods [...]

For the second year, Westerville’s Uptown District will be awarding up to $15,000 in grant money per property for improvements ranging from paint, new windows, awnings to concealing rooftop [...]

The city of Dublin, Ohio has embarked on a grand project with this one so here’s an update on the progress.   The project is moving along and the city is offering a quick look at what it [...]

The City of Westerville is looking at a plan to more effectively utilize the 1,100 parking spaces in the Uptown district. The plan is to create mid-block alleys and redesign the north – [...]