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June 28th, 2007 categories: Condos & Lofts In the wake of a hugely successful City-Hop, One must still ask the question: Is the notion of first time buyers and young professionals snatching up all those groovy urban digs just a media-induced smoke and mirror trick? Yes, it is, for the most part....

June 22nd, 2007 categories: Market Updates, Clintonville There’s been a lot of talk about how dead the market is all over town and, for the most part, things are relatively stagnant on many fronts. Things are a clickin’ in Clintonville though: 64 properties in contract contingent on something av...

June 21st, 2007 categories: Real Estate News, For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers The term “Gourmet Kitchen” is dead. I’m making the pronouncement right now, Time of Death: 12:37 PM Thursday June 21, 2007. (Happy Summer!) I remember the days when it used to mean something to have a gourmet kitchen...

June 22nd, 2007 categories: Market Updates, Clintonville There’s been a lot of talk about how dead the market is all over town and, for the most part, things are relatively stagnant on many fronts. Things are a clickin’ in Clintonville though: 64 properties in contract contingent on something av...

Or is it primed to make a comeback?  Well, maybe somewhere in between lies the best guess.  The first and last thing to always remember when we’re talking about real estate is that IT’S ALL LOCAL. Who cares if the sky is falling across the country. So what if USA Today, WSJ and the nightly news ...

June 18th, 2007 categories: Real Estate News, Condos & Lofts Historic, yet contemporary.  Classic, yet hip.  We’ve heard about this coming for some time now but today at 3:00 is the official ground breaking at the corner of 4th of Gay.  Developer Jeff Edwards’ 9 block neighborhood covering mostly...

June 15th, 2007 categories: Columbus News With Green being at least as hot a topic/buzzword as anything else in the local housing markets, you’d think Columbus might be close to being America’s greenest city.  I think most of the buzz from City Hall is lip service, ditto the bigger developers, t...

June 15th, 2007 categories: Columbus News I know you should never end a sentence with a preposition but when I worded it differently, it just didn’t sound right.  Allstate Insurance just released their annual list of safest drivers in the United States.  This year Columbus is down almost 10% fro...

June 12th, 2007 --  Actually, if you include today, there are about 104 days left until September 23, the first day of Fall.  I went to Arts Festival over the weekend, my kids are home on summer vacation and my wife, a school nurse, is home as well so it must be summer. As a Realtor, Spring and ...

June 6th, 2007 categories: Real Estate News, For Home BuyersI relish the opportunity to help buyers find that oddball property.  Something not quite a house that can be a home or a work solution or both.  How about a commercial building on Spring Street downtown? 5000 square feet, 12 foot ceiling...