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As Columbus gets ready to celebrate its bicentennial next year, downtown has blossomed with new projects with both condo lofts and apartments.  Walker with Columbus Underground recapped 12 new [...]

I read a piece on Inman News a few minutes ago that I find quite striking.   This is further development on the build better, not bigger design theme that we’re seeing in urban infill areas [...]

Seeking additional long lease, investment grade, single-tenant, triple net leased, opportunities nationwide. Please contact me, Scott Harris at 310-473-4789 or 614-905-6614.

Forbes.com Ranked Columbus, Ohio in third pace of all major metros in tech job creation over the last five years.  Columbus created nearly 17% growth in that period and was beaten only by Seattle [...]

I get quite a few calls/emails asking for exactly the same property type backed by the same type of lease. The commercial real estate flavor du jour is retail, single-tenant, single parcel with [...]

Homes sales in Central Ohio were 1,543 for the month and that’s up almost 8.6% over the 1,421 for October last year.   Homes going into contract increased 46% last month over a year ago making [...]

The Great Recession has produced an increase of 1.4 million new renters this year, which is a 4% rise in the last year according to Mark Heschmeyer at CoStar News.  And again, since construction [...]

The State of Ohio approved a $10 million loan to Franklin County to help facilitate the purchase of 18,000 seat Nationwide Arena from Nationwide Insurance and the Columbus Dispatch.  The loan [...]

Columbus scored well on a Chamber of Commerce survey of young professionals.  79% of respondents view Columbus as a vibrant city where folks are using Public parks, trails, recreation areas and [...]

Homes sales in Central Ohio were 1,719 for the month and that’s up almost 17% over the 1,474 for September last year.  Homes going into contract increased 58% last month over a year ago.  Total [...]

Central Ohio does what it always does and recovers faster than the rest of the Midwest. September unemployment was down to 7.7%. That’s not where we’d like to see it, but it sure beats some other [...]

It’s actually not all that surprising given that construction financing has all but shut down once again that any pickup of leasing activity means a net positive absorption given that there’s [...]

To brighten the Monday a little bit I thought I would put together a short video of the fundraiser we did last weekend here in Columbus Ohio at the Columbus Zoo. We don’t get much weather as [...]

Columbus, Ohio (pop. 787,933) I had no idea that according to USA Today, Columbus Ohio comes in second in the number of playgrounds in a city.  The number almost equals the number of golf courses [...]

Nationwide Realty Development received Grandview Heights’ planning commission final approval to begin construction next month of a 154 unit residential complex at the 90 acres Grandview [...]

Well, regarding the commercial real estate side of this business: we were clipping along pretty well and then month after month of anemic job growth numbers, downward revisions to GDP for the [...]

Sales for July were 1,865 homes, which was a 23.3% increase over July 2010 and the number scheduled to close was up almost 50% from July 2010.  Median price was $141,359 and that is up 5.9% from [...]

This one is for the locals.  Westerville, Ohio I mean.  The Walmart, after about five years of fighting about it, is going to happen.  That corner looks like crap so thankfully someone stuck with [...]

Investors showed a sharpened appetite for commercial property, pushing prices up in the second quarter.  I realize that the second quarter, the end of June, sounds so long ago given what’s [...]

It has been claimed for as long as I can remember that Columbus has the best access to the American market.  Three Scale Research tested this claim and found it to be true.  They used the 2010 [...]