Cleveland Heights Ohio Homes For Sale between $250,000 - $350,000. As a Accredited Buyer's Representative (ABR) and a REALTOR with strong negotiating experience, I would be happy to assist you with your next home purchase or sale in the Cleveland Heights Ohio real estate marketplace. Here are currently (as of 11/8/2009) 42 homes for sale in Cleveland Heights Ohio between $250,000 - $350,000. Homes between $250,000 - $350,000 in Cleveland Heights Ohio View all the homes for sale in Cleveland Heights Ohio at Olsen Ziegler Realty Happy searching! An innovative and cost-effective way to buy and sell your Cleveland Heights Ohio Home 11/08/2009

Cleveland Heights Ohio Homes For Sale between $200,000 - $250,000. As a Accredited Buyer's Representative (ABR) and a REALTOR with strong negotiating experience, I would be happy to assist you with your next home purchase or sale in the Cleveland Heights Ohio real estate marketplace. Here are currently (as of 11/1/2009) 25 homes for sale in Cleveland Heights Ohio between $200,000 - $250,000. Homes between $200,000 - $250,000 in Cleveland Heights Ohio View all the homes for sale in Cleveland Heights Ohio at Olsen Ziegler Realty Happy searching! An innovative and cost-effective way to buy and sell your Cleveland Heights Ohio Home 11/01/2009

Last night the Cleveland Orchestra performed the Beethoven Piano Concerto #4 with Mitsuko Uchida as soloist and after intermission a searing rendition of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony.  Prelude to Act I Wagner's Lohengrin was the encore.  The audience loved it and demanded numerous curtain calls.  For those of you who know a little about music history, you might be interested to know that Gustav Mahler's grand-daughter was in the audience during our Thursday night concert and loved it!  Only in Vienna...   This morning at the Wiener Musikvereinsaal the orchestra rehearsed a little bit of a new piece that we have played several times call "Chor" by Jorge Widmann and then spent the rest of the rehearsal on the Brahms Requiem with the Wiener Singverein (Viennese Singing Society) and solois... 11/01/2009

In a few days I will leave real estate behind for a few weeks as I travel to Europe with the Cleveland Orchestra. We start in Toronto and then go on to Paris, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Linz, and Vienna. I am looking forward to the trip and I rest easy knowing my listings are covered by one of my fellow agents. Last week one of short sale listings transferred, so that was another sale under my belt. I will blog more from Europe. Happy Halloween!     10/18/2009

Here's a summary of what happened to residential real estate in Cleveland Heights for the 60 days prior to September 25th, 2009:Sales162 homes were listed for sale for an average list price of $166,072.79 homes were sold and transfered with an average sale price of $125,161.The average list price for homes that sold was $133,134.Average market time was 98 days.Homes that commanded top price were in impeccable condition, had interesting architecural features like crown mouldings and fireplaces. They also had remodeled kitchens and baths.SupplyThere is a lack of supply of home priced $160,000-$200,000 and $350,000 and up. There is a surplus of home priced $70,000-$160,000List PricesThe highest percentage of average list prices were in the $160,000-$180,000 range.What to expectIn my opinio... 10/06/2009

14664 Superior Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 is now under contract.  This home had an over-the-top renovation from top to bottom.  Please visit the virtual flyer for more details.   Cleveland Heights, Ohio has some of the most architecturally significant homes in the country and has a very diverse housing stock in all price ranges and is right next to the cultural treasure of University Circle. Please visit all the homes currently for sale in Cleveland Heights Ohio here: Cleveland Heights Ohio Homes for Sale View an extreme makeover of a home we listed and sold in November 2008 in Cleveland Heights Ohio at 1381 Oakridge Drive. View another extreme makeover of an architecturally significant home we listed and sold at 2200 N. St. James Parkway in Cleveland Heights Ohio. View the commu... 09/20/2009

Here are the August 2009 real estate market statistics for the Cleveland Heights, Ohio community in Northeast Ohio. Absorption Rates and Months Housing Supply These two terms are one piece of the puzzle to help real estate agents, appraisers, home sellers and buyers alike make sense out of the real estate market. This is a little-known, but effective tool, if used in proper context, to help a home seller or buyer understand the market conditions for the home they wish to sell or buy. The easiest way to define these two terms is with an example: Absorption Rates (AR)- The rate at which homes are selling (ie. absorbed), over a specific time period, typically 12 months.  This is beneficial in determining supply and demand trends for the local market. Months Housing Supply (MHS) - How long ... 09/13/2009

Cleveland Heights Ohio Luxury Homes For Sale Luxury homes for sale in Cleveland Heights Ohio currently only makes up about 4% of the total homes for sale in the community.  While the luxury home market segment in Cleveland Heights Ohio is rather small, the inventory levels are high, credit is available for buyers with good credit, the housing market favors buyers, and prices have come down from the highs of the 2006-07 market.  Moreover, a truly motivated seller should be willing to negotiate hard to sell their home in this challenging marketplace, so even more opportunity exists in light of the already attractive environment that exists today. As a Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist and a REALTOR with strong negotiating experience, I would be happy to assist you with your next ... 08/30/2009

Series -- Post 6 of 7 -- Our Unique Selling Proposition (USP) -- Extreme Makeover of a 1920s Cleveland Heights Ohio Home The first post in this series focused on performing an extreme makover by performing major renovation, redesign and home staging of a home in Cleveland Heights Ohio that we did for a seller client in both a cost-effective manner and quick turn-around time frame. The second post in this series focused on home staging a Twinsburg, Ohio home on a shoestring budget.  This seller said the total they had to invest in preparing their home for sale was $1,000.  The actual total was $500 and was primarily spent on obtaining a POD filled to the brim and stored off-site. The third post in this series focused on another extreme makeover of an architecturally significant home in S... 08/23/2009

Series -- Post 1 of 7 -- Our Unique Selling Proposition (USP) -- Extreme Makeover Cleveland Heights Ohio Real Estate This is the first post of seven in a series that will illustrate various capabilities we possess which is our Unique Selling Proposition (USP) for which we are unaware of any other residential real estate brokerage or individual agent who possess "ALL" of these capabilities to actually take an entire extreme makeover from A...Z on a strict budget, execute on-time, knowing what it will actually take to both sell the home as well as protect the seller's investment. Feel free to check out our other posts in our USP series: Post 2 of 7 -- Our Unique Selling Proposition (USP) -- Home Staging Makeover on a shoestring budget -- Twinsburg Ohio Real Estate Post 3 of 7 -- Our Uniqu... 08/13/2009

Cleveland Heights Ohio Real Estate and Community ProfileCleveland Heights, Ohio proudly retains its title as the first suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and today, continues to strive to be a progressive, dynamic suburb just minutes to University Circle and downtown Cleveland. Cleveland Heights is known for its diverse housing offerings including everything from English cottages to historic, architecturally-inspiring mansions. Cleveland Heights Ohio Real Estate is simply something to experience -- you will be amazed and awed at both the architecture, the surroundings, the wealth of nearby cultural offerings as well as the affordability. It is a town very committed to the arts and music and hosts numerous galleries, theaters, and dance companies including the Heights Arts Gallery, Dobama Theatr... 07/25/2009

These two terms are one piece of the puzzle to help real estate agents, appraisers, home sellers and buyers alike make sense out of the real estate market. This is a little-known, but effective tool, if used in proper context, to help a home seller or buyer understand the market conditions for the home they wish to sell or buy. The easiest way to define these two terms is with an example: Absorption Rates (AR)- The rate at which homes are selling (ie. absorbed), over a specific time period, typically 12 months.  This is beneficial in determining supply and demand trends for the local market. Months Housing Supply (MHS) - How long it will take, in number of months, for all the current homes for sale to be sold. Formulas: Monthly Absorption Rate = # of homes sold in the past twelve month... 04/26/2009

For those interested in eco-friendly products and services, I suggest attending the "Green Dream" 2nd Annual Eco-Friendly Showcase on Friday, April 17th at the Beachwood Community Center, 25325 Fairmount Boulevard in Beachwood. The hours are 1-7pm and it's FREE! There will over 70 eco-friendly businesses represented there. 04/10/2009

Sales of Cleveland Heights have risen in the last three month compared with the previous three months. Of those single family homes that sold in the last three months, all of them were $55,000 or less, so this may reflect bank-owned homes, foreclosure, distressed properties, or homes whose owners just had to lower the price to get them sold. In any case 131 homes were sold or pending in the last 90 days compared to 121 sold or pending for the previous three months. The down side of this is that there were 410 homes for sale during the last 90 days and only 89 for sale the previous 90 days. This may reflect people taking homes off the market for the Christmas holiday. So, more homes were sold but more came on the market the last three months, so the absorption rate has dropped for single... 04/02/2009

Cleveland Heights - November 2008 THE HISTORY--PAST and PRESENT: This homeowner tried to sell, unsuccessfully, for two years in 2005-2006. He then rented it until the tenant was evicted in May 2008. At the time he found Olsen Ziegler Realty, he was living in New Zealand. He found our website on the Internet and called to ask us to please take a look at his home and to let him know what we thought. We first visited the home on May 29, 2008. While this all-brick, colonial home had lovely qualities such as large rooms, a 3-car attached garage, four finished levels, 3 fireplaces, and a lovely, large roof deck, it had fallen into serious disrepair due to the tenants disregard for the property, and had an old, tired kitchen, outdated bathrooms, a wet basement with a distinct animal odor, and ... 01/31/2009

Here is my end of year real estate report for the Heights. These are the latest statistics extracted from the Northern Ohio Multiple Listing Service:These figures represent the MONTHLY average of sold homes in the last three months...Cleveland Heights- total for sale at present- 433Solds/month Absorption Rate/month$0-$99,999 26 5.9%$100,000-$199,999 10 2.2%$200,000-$299,0002 .4%$300,000-$399,9992 .4%$400,000+.33 (1 in 3 months) .1%University Heights- total for sale at present- 125$0-$99,9998 6%$100,000-$199,9993 2%$200,000-$299,999.33 0.3%$300,000-$399,9990 0%$400,000+0 0%Shaker Heights- for sale at present- 286$0-$99,99910 3.5%$100,000-$199,9997 2.6%$200,000-$299,9994 1.5%$300,000-$399,9992 0.7%$400,000-$499,9991 0.3%$500,000+1 0.5%Clearly homes below $100,000 are selling the quickest ... 01/12/2009

Greater Cleveland is the home city of Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, MetroHealth Hospital. We are proud to  have one of the best health systems in America and in a whole world! Many doctors relocate to Greater Cleveland every year. One of the biggest challenges for relocating doctors, especially for those who chose Cleveland hospitals for their residency program is to find the right housing solution. Though most of new residents would like to buy home or condo, they end up renting the place at least for one year. I had few first year residents last summer who called me on condo within five minutes to Cleveland Clinic. Interesting observation: most of the doctors want to buy condo in a decent neighborhood close to Clinic but they keep in mind that in few years they might need to... 11/30/2008

Laura Johnston of the Plain Dealer was in attendance along with around 70 people, myself included, to experience the auction of this amazing home. I was very impressed by the turnout, especially in this market, and the bidding ran up pretty quickly... starting around $200,000 and running up to $250,000, to $300,000, to $350,000, then to $400,000... Tom Seaman, the auctioneer, tried valiantly to get the bidding up, and over the next ten minutes, could not cajole any of the bidders to wander over the $400,000 mark, not to $450,000, not to $425,000...  He then mentioned that the family selling the home had a reserve (he had indicated such before the auction began) which had not yet been met.  The auction still remained stalled.  He then closed the formal auction, and indicated that the auc... 10/20/2008

Be sure to visit this site: www.heightsobserver.org  Such a wonderful new newspaper for Cleveland Heights, Ohio... I am delighted to read this newspaper... check it out for yourself. Here is an article from the Heights Observer: Location, Location, Location: Montessori High School faculty make Cleveland Heights home by Jean Buchannan Montessori High School's classroom building at 11025 Magnolia Drive. Designed by Charles F. Schweinfurth, the structure houses classrooms, music practice rooms, an art and design studio, and a multi-media conference area.  It is said to be one of the finest examples of Federalist architecture in Northeast Ohio. View Image Gallery When a new Montessori High School (MHS) opens in University Circle this August, many of its faculty and staff will be able to coa... 10/10/2008

I check each week to see if we have hit the bottom yet... I'm never quite sure--what I do see are value opportunities all over!  This real estate market is incredible! There are bargains to be had by any investor with the courage to jump now and make an opportunity happen in their favor! Take a look at these two properties, near each other on Kenilworth in Cleveland Heights, very near to Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals and the Cleveland Clinic, and the millions of dollars being invested along Euclid Avenue in University Circle: 2446 Kenilworth is available for $119,000... previously it sold for $310,000 in 2001... of course, the owner then re-financed this home for way more than the market could have tolerated: $416,500.  Wow!  Never was that home worth $416,500... 08/04/2008