Residential

This is the last reminder because valuation appeals are accepted from December to March 31.  Your chances of winning are about half so it’s well worth doing, but must be done correctly and [...]

Slow steady improvement was the name of the game in Columbus and Central Ohio for February 2012 residential real estate as 1,215 sales closed last month, which is a 5% increase over February [...]

DQ News reported that 15,573 new and resale homes sold Southern California in February 2012.  That was up from January by 7.2% and up 8.4% from February 2011.  Plus it was the best February since [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Columbus and Central Ohio had 19,956 single-family and condo home sales during the year 2011. There were 19,700 residential home sales in 2010.  2011 was only 1.3 percent behind 2010 according to [...]

DQ News reported that 19,247 new and resale homes sold last month.  That was up for December from November by 14% but down 1.4% from December 2010.  Normally, sales are up from November to [...]

According to Randyl Drummer at CoStar News, non residential commercial construction posted a 4.5% gain in November over same month last year.  All segments showed solid gains. Residential [...]

The residential market is coming back across the state of Ohio so says Ohio Association of Realtors.  The number of single family homes and condos put under contract brought the Pending Home [...]

I know I’ve been posting more residential real estate news over the last week or so than I have commercial.  Commercial real estate pretty much shuts down this time of the year unless you [...]

CoStar News reports that starts of multiunit residential construction were up 32.2% from October 2011 to 230,000, which is the highest since September 2008.  True, the number of new apartment [...]

Homes sales in Central Ohio were 1,406 for the month and that’s up almost 7% over November last year.  Homes going into contract increased 37% last month over a year ago making November the [...]

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 [...]

NAR announced that according the Pending Home Sales Index, October’s 93.3 rating represents a 9.2% increase year over year, and all US regions show an increase.  The gain in the Midwest was [...]

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 [...]

And again, there’s not much in the way of good news to report regarding home sales in Southern California for October  2011.  DQ News reported that 16,829 new and resale homes sold last month, [...]

How about an aspirational post to help start the next week?   No, no this is not my listing, unfortunately.  I would have loved to be the photographer though.   [...]

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 [...]