Cleveland Real Estate in the dumps
cleveland foreclosure
cleveland foreclosure
All Boarded Up
TONY BRANCATELLI, A CLEVELAND CITY COUNCILMAN, yearns for signs that something like normal life still exists in his ward. Early one morning last fall, he called me from his cellphone. He sounded unusually excited. He had just visited two forlorn-looking vacant houses that had been foreclosed more than a year ago. They sat on the same lot, one in front of the other. Both had been frequented by squatters, and Brancatelli had passed by to see if they had been finally boarded up. They hadn’t. But while there he noticed with alarm what looked like a prone body in the yard next door. As he moved closer, he realized he was looking at an elderly woman who had just one leg, lying on the ground. She was leaning on one arm and, with the other, was whacking at weeds with a hatchet and stuffing the clippings into a cardboard box for garbage pickup. “Talk about fortitude,” he told me. In a place like Cleveland, hope comes in small morsels.
More here at the New York Times.
Top 10 Denver Keywords
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Bellevue, WA was my market - and I killed it in my first year of working as a Real Estate Consultant (as they call it in the Keller Williams bid ness). Part of it was because I really did give a damn about trying to help people find something that would be their dream home and I killed myself to deliver.
Being #1
My family suffered as well. However, as the world migrates over to online resources to find homes, condos and all forms of “Chattels Real” (aka real estate), you MUST know your online marketing. Read the rest of this entry »
Businessweek’s The World’s Best Places to Live 2008
The World’s Best Places to Live 2008
Mercer Consulting’s annual roundup of the global cities with the best quality of life is here, and Zurich once again comes out on top. The best place in the U.S.? Honolulu at No. 28
By Carl Winfield
New York, London, and Paris are internationally renowned cities but consultants at Mercer Consulting have picked Zurich, Switzerland, as the best place to live in the company’s annual survey.
Consultants rated each city on a variety of factors including the level of traffic congestion, air quality, and personal safety reported by expatriates living in more than 600 cities worldwide. In the top 25, U.S. cities such as San Francisco, Boston, and Chicago were all edged out by Geneva, Switzerland, Vancouver, B.C., and Auckland, New Zealand. The highest-scoring U.S. city is Honolulu, which came in at No. 28. Read the rest of this entry »
Denmark supposedly is a very happy place to live.
Supposedly, the world’s happiest country is…Denmark. The country is #1 in terms of the Gini coefficient, #2 in terms of being the most peaceful country in the world & have the 6th highest GDP per capita.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Denmark, with its democracy, social equality and peaceful atmosphere, is the happiest country in the world, researchers said on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
Less Real Estate taxes, less government money = less services to citizens
…at least this is what a recent Businessweek article is writing. Some more from the article:
State and local governments were flush with tax revenue during the five-year housing boom. They pulled from bulging pools of property, income, and sales tax to expand education, law enforcement, health care, and infrastructure programs without needing to burden residents and corporations with tax hikes. Read the rest of this entry »
Real Estate Websites galore
Home Builders can sleep until 2024 in Seattle - potential deals in Seattle
Looks like Seattle’s already achieved 50% the number of housing units they were targeting for 2024 here in 2008. Approximately 47,000 housing units are built or being created right now which would represent the city’s 2024 housing targets. Specifically, Ballard and Eastlake take the cake as far as being the most overbuilt for now. Other areas in the Seattle region include Bellevue, downtown Renton, Covington and Maple Valley as far as areas that qualify as growing very fast in terms of housing.
My thoughts are possible good buying opportunities given the downturn in the housing market on top of a surplus of housing units.
More about how Seattle’s overbuilt in terms of housing here.
Embrace Public Transportation…
Sitting in a taxi cab driving home earlier tonight, I thought to myself “The Taxi rates are pretty low here in Korea. How long will this last given the increase in oil prices?” Very specifically, it costs a little less than $2 (U.S.) for a 5-10 minute cab ride and it only cost me $6 to drive across town from the express train station tonight. Read the rest of this entry »
House or Houses? What real estate keyword(s) do you target?
I’ve taken the liberty to do a little research for all the real estate agents out there taking advantage of online marketing. There’s paid online marketing and organic/natural online marketing, but both forms need to know what’s the best real estate keywords to target. “Real estate” is the highest searched term. Recent estimates say it’s searched over 500,000 times a month. So, competing for such a phrase would be almost impossible to win with the big budgets of the Move.com Network (owners of Realtor.com, Moving.com, WelcomeWagon.com & much more) or the new up and comers like Zillow.com and Trulia. Read the rest of this entry »
