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Bexley Real estate Update - September -
2007-10-05 18:53:00
The Summer’s stragglers and some nice homes that came on the market late in the summer season sold last month, totaling 15 homes sales in Bexley during the month of September, 2007. There are 109 active single family homes for sale in Bexley as of today with another 17 in contract. In September, 5 South Bexley homes ...
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The Decline of the Corner Lot in Columbus Real Estate?
2007-10-05 18:18:00
It doesn’t seem very long ago that selling a home on a corner lot would create a positive buzz.  The lot would be a good selling point.  People like corner lots, right?  More square feet of grass in a lot, at least one less house immediately next door, more sun.  What could be better? The truth is that, ...
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Succesful Realtor ISO Serious Home Buyers ? Let?s Document Your Journey
2007-10-02 21:59:00
Sometimes the best way to get more business is to simply ask for it.  I want to be your Realtor .  I want to help you purchase your new home.  Specifically, I?d like to document your home buying experience here on the blog from the first point of contact through the closing.  A Real World-Columbus for ...
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Columbus Real Estate -Clintonville Solds - September ReCap
2007-10-02 20:38:00
Let’s take a look and see what’s been happening in the Clintonville Real Estate Market Lately.  36 Properties sold in the month of September in the Greater Clintonville area.  From a $99,000 2 bedroom condo on West Weber to a nice 3 bedroom 2.5 story brick on Acton for $349,900 – on the market 4 ...
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Olde Towne East September Market Re-cap
2007-10-02 19:21:00
I can almost say that nothing happened last month. But, remember, when we’re talking about Columbus Neighborhoods, we’re talking about relatively small geographic locations.  Olde Towne East , The Short North, German Village, these are all just small areas a few square miles put together.   For the purposes of the blog and for conveying Real Estate Information ...
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A September to Remember? How did the Columbus Area Real Estate Market shak
2007-10-02 18:53:00
Last month I reviewed the basics on the summer sales in Franklin County and we looked to see how that compared to past years.  All in all, the news was pretty good but there continues to be a lot of inventory out there, a lot of speculation about the future of the market and the ...
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Things You Don?t See Everyday
2007-10-01 22:31:00
Still working on the catchy title for a series of once a month or so posts with pictures celebrating the good, bad and unique aspects of homes I see when I am working with Buyers.  More and more often I tend to have my camera with me when I’m working with buyers and I’ll try to capture ...
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Columbus, Ohio - Midwest Style Capital
2007-10-01 21:11:00
I know, I know, it’s been slow here on Columbus Homes Blog.  I came down with a bug last week but I’m much better now and ready to go.  Today I came across this blurb from the New York Times saying how Columbus has undergone a transformation and, “gained an unexpected new profile as a ...
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A quick comment about comments
2007-09-20 21:29:00
Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t.  They’re all there, even the spam ones, but they aren’t always visible.  I have my “people” working on it.  Also, while we’re on the subject of the site, I know it doesn’t load correctly in Internet Explorer 6.0 and I’m working on that also.  You could just upgrade to ...
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What is Affordable Housing?
2007-09-20 20:59:00
It depends who you ask.  One person’s affordable is easily another person’s outrageous.  There has to be some defining level though, right?  It turns out that in Columbus, Ohio, affordable housing means properties priced $125,000 and below.  It’s not so much a magic number as one derived from area income and housing sales statistics and ...
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Nice Curbs - The City of Bexley Putting Tax Dollars to Work
2007-09-20 14:59:00
I think that sometimes Residents of Bexley forget how good it is to be a Resident of Bexley. Buying a Home in Bexley? Rest assured that your tax dollars are not only going to the Bexley school System, but to road repair and maintenance also. In Columbus, the condition of Streets like Sherwood and Denver ...
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A South High Street Address that?s not in a Hotel
2007-09-19 22:21:00
The building here, at 342 South High , has six one bedroom condominiums in it that haven’t had a whole lot of fanfare so you may not be aware of them. They don’t have a catchy name, like the CourtRoom Condos for instance, but they do have around 1400 square feet.  That’s more than 69 currently active ...
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Macy?s to Pull out of Downtown Columbus? City Center
2007-09-19 20:59:00
“I have many, many ideas, I want to see some retail back in it, offices as well. We have thousands of people moving downtown and there’s a great need for retail activity.Our downtown is on the move. This is the only thing holding us back.” – Michael Coleman Jul 31 2007 The Dispatch reported today that ...
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Are Auctions the new ?IT? Girl? How about a Broad Street Mansion for $1 ?
2007-09-19 20:17:00
The last two Sundays, this Gorgeous home on East Broad Street across from Franklin Park has been open for viewing in light of tonight’s auction.  It is a tremendous showplace of a home. And, while it could use some updating and sprucing up, its Eight Bedrooms and eight baths could be yours for $1.00. Of course, that’s ...
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The Tower of Power? North Bank Condos Nearly Half Sold
2007-09-17 22:25:00
My best calculations, according to my conversations with Nationwide Realty and the Arena Living Team, reveal that the north Bank Tower is about 43% sold with 38 of the 88 units being spoken for.  Because it’s pretty much finished on the outside, it’s not quite as easy to see how close the building is to being ...
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Columbus Traffic updates
2007-09-17 21:23:00
I realized today that the Dispatch has a blog regarding traffic in and around Columbus .  So, when you’re tooling around your favorite Columbus Neighborhood looking for a home for sale, you can be up on Detours, lane restrictions, camera lights and bad intersections. You can also post comments and plain old vent about local traffic, better than ...
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The Dingers? Season Appears to Be Over
2007-09-14 18:36:00
Hello.  My name is Joe Peffer and, aside from being a great Columbus Realtor,  I am a fantasy baseball enthusiast.  It’s true and I’m not ashamed of it.  The D ingers are competitive year in and year out, with some first place divisional titles and one league title.  Today, however, they’re entering the weekend behind by 82 ...
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Sellers! Make a Grand Entrance.
2007-09-13 20:45:00
This is a Victorian Village Condo that just hit the market.  It’s just under 1300 sq ft, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths and it’s around $218 sq ft with a monthly condo fee of less than $150. What’s that?  It sounds OK but you wonder what it looks like? Oh, sorry, but this is the accompanying picture in ...
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Hot Times Festival
2007-09-10 22:25:00
Soggy, but fantastic.  Hope you were there. If not, see you next year.   add to:
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Columbus Real Estate Update - August - Olde Towne East
2007-09-10 22:22:00
It was a quiet month in Lake Olde Towne East , my home town.  Five homes sold on the near east side from Mt. Vernon to Main Streets and I-71 to Nelson, my de facto Olde Towne East definition for the purposes of recaps, statistics and the blog in general. The least expensive home? An 1800 sq ft ...
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Can a first time Columbus Real Estate buyer get 100% financing?
2007-09-10 21:51:00
With all the talk about mortgage lenders drying up like Grapes in the California sun, it’s good to know that programs do still exist where, as long as your credit is pretty healthy, you can buy a house with no money down. Now, let it be said that I do not advocate buying a home with ...
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Columbus Real Estate Update - August - Bexley Real estate
2007-09-10 21:34:00
The summer in Bexley wasn’t bad.  21 Homes sold in Bexley in August compared to 23 in July and 26 in June.  So, the big summer months saw 70 homes exchange hands in Bexley from June 1 to August 31. In August, the least expensive home was a 792 sq ft home on Allegheny with two ...
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Bexley Hydrant Flushing
2007-09-10 18:54:00
The City of Bexley will be flushing Hydrants throughout Bexley.  From the city of Bexley Website: The Bexley Water Department has begun flushing fire hydrants and conducting fire flow testing on all of the fire hydrants in the City of Bexley.  The crew will be working Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.  Please check ...

Clintonville Tour of Homes — This weekend
2007-09-07 21:29:00
This Sunday September 9, 2007: Noon - 5:00 PM.  Eight area homes will be showcased.  Don’t miss it!  Tour Home Information is available by clicking here. You may order tickets with your credit card via our website by visiting our secured online portal before Noon on Saturday. You will need to subsequently pick up your tickets at The Backyard Experience on Sunday.  We will email you specific instructions for your pick up of your tickets. After 12:00 Noon on Saturday, your options for purchasing tickets will be narrowed to two choices: Saturday afternoon, at The Backyard Experience, until the store’s closing (at the $9 pre-Tour Day price), or Sunday, after 11:00, but at the $12 Tour Day price) Sunday, between 12:00 Noon and 5:00, at any of the eight Tour Homes - at the $12 Tour Day price. Tickets are available during Friday and during Saturday morning business hours at: Faulkner Realty - 3003 North High Stree...
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Columbus Real Estate - August Update - German Village
2007-09-07 20:54:00
Still a bunch out there on the market.  In August, 15 lucky sellers were able to move on with their lives.  In the German Village area, which for these purposes also includes Schumacher Place and parts of the Brewery District, 12 Homes and 3 condos sold In August. The least expensive home was on Bruck, a 2 bedroom, 1 bath home between Columbus and Kossuth.  At 986 square feet, this home sold for $146,500. It was a very nice Schumacher Charmer that had first come on the market in April of 2006 at $179,000. The most expensive home sold in German Village in August was on Deshler, overlooking Schiller Park, you know the one -studio, stainless steel in-ground pool, attached garage, 5200 sq feet– for $1,500,000. This home was on the market only 9 days.  Talk about the right place at the right time and they only came down 95K from the original list price. Aside from two Dakotas pent-homes, the only other Million Dollar plus transactions in Columbus...
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Columbus Real Estate August Recap - Downtown Columbus Condos
2007-09-05 21:09:00
It was a relatively slow month for Downtown Columbus condos. 15 Sales in all, not really too bad when you consider the housing base to begin with. They ranged in price from a 1 bedroom studio in Yukon Lofts for $109,900 to a delightful apartment in the 4th floor of Buggyworks with almost 2600 sq ...
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Columbus Real Estate August Recap - Downtown Columbus Condos
2007-09-05 18:40:00
It was not a huge month downtown.  A total of 15 condos sold in downtown Columbus in the month of August.  FIVE of them were under $202,500, in case you’re thinking that you can’t afford to move to where it’s all happening.  The 15 condos that sold downtown averaged 1,382 sq feet in case you’re thinking ...
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This Summer?s Columbus Area Real Estate Market
2007-09-04 20:24:00
Have Homes been Moving? Well, August is gone and so is the Labor day weekend.  The Greek Festival is behind us and that means that it’s time to tally some numbers and take a look at what has happened this summer in Columbus Real Estate . I’ll break down the numbers in the community sections, but Franklin County ...
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Bryden Road - Sold under 30 days
2007-08-31 21:45:00
Don’t let anybody tell you that the Columbus Real Estate Market is dead.  If the right house has the right price and is marketed well, it’ll sell.  My seller had this Bryden Road home on the market about 2 weeks, we received an offer and closed today, 2 weeks later.  Yes, by all means, please ...
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Black Creek Bistro - Olde Towne East?s Best Bet
2007-08-29 19:42:00
For Food, Drink and ambiance.  We’ve not had or heard of anything but great experiences here at Black Creek Bistro , at the corner of Oak and Parsons Avenue.  Since I moved to the neighborhood, this location has housed several different eateries, most notably Elemental.  I hope Black Creek Bistro has a long, long stay. See the ...
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