A Columbus Dispatch article today says "Worthington Mall to be Sold"

The Dispatch article written by Marla Matzer Rose says there is a buyer for the local mall and it is a local person.  The Columbus Dispatch says:

"Local developer Tom Carter and Morris Capital Partners of Texas announced a plan yesterday to buy the mall."

It sounds like the mall originally built in 1974 is going to be opened up...  it was enclosed at some point.

Carter is quoted about the past...

"bad decisions by previous owners" contributed to the center's woes"

The slide show below was a few years ago... Victoria's Secret and Bath and Body Works were still at Worthington Mall at that point.  Godfry's left, went to Polaris, Acorn is gone.

Wilson Bridge Road Walking Tour Saturday


W. Wilson Bridge Road - Worthington history

Columbus home sale prices are up...  

OK I really am only looking at a micro area...  in July 2010 Columbus Ohio 43214 average home sale price was up 16.4% from July 2009.  That graph is for a slice of Columbus north of North Broadway up to the Worthington city line.  The Colmbus Ohio 43214 ZIP code includes neighborhoods like  Beechwold,  Old Beechwold, Sharon Heights, Tremont Gardens, Chaseland, Delawanda Park, parts of Clintonville and more.   Yet a pretty small area when you come right down to it.

Columbus Ohio 43214 home sale prices are up

Real estate is really, really local.

The graph shows list and sale prices for single family homes in the Columbus Ohio 43214 ZIP code for the past 15 months, home prices were up 16.4% from July 2009.

Columbus Ohio home sale prices are...

Macro?  Homes in the City of Columbus School District?  ooooh ick prices down 19.5%.

Macro er...  a bigger area the entire area served by the Columbus Board of REALTORS® MLS sale  prices of single family homes were up .6%

"All counties 0.6%"  remember this is single family homes only, not all residential.

I believe all homes in the Columbus Ohio 43214 ZIP code are in the Columbus City School District.  Best to check for each address what school district the home is in.

Closings in July 2010 were homes sold during the tax credits?  Since the tax credits?  A mixed bag?  August will be interesting. September even more so.

Columbus homes for sale - SEARCH

Columbus home sale prices are up or down....   it kinda depends

By ZIP code change from July 2009:

• Columbus Ohio 43054 average home sales price was down 1.9%
  
• Columbus Ohio 43085 average home sales price was up 4.8% 
• Columbus Ohio 43202 average home sales price was up  1.2%
• Columbus Ohio 43214 average home sales pirce was up 16.4%
• Columbus Ohio 43220 average home sales price was up 1.2%
  
• Columbus Ohio 43221 average home sales price was up 18.5%
• Columbus Ohio 43229 average home sales price was down 2% 
• Columbus Ohio 43230 average home sales price was down 12.3%
  
• Columbus Ohio 43235 average home sales price was up 4.6%

ZIP codes are just mailing routes.

By school district change from July 2009: 

• Columbus schools average home sales price down 19.5%
  
• Dublin schools average home sales price up 11.1%
• Gahanna Jefferson schools average home sales price up .5%
  
• Grandview Heights schools average home sales price up 52.6%
• Hilliard schools up 14.1%
• Plain Local schools up 10.4%
• Upper Arlington schools up 26.5%
• Westerville schools down 10.9% 
• Worthington schools up 4.3%

Above are all single family home prices.

The moral of this story?  If there is a moral to this story... I supppos it is that it's tough to buy a house if you don't know the market.

Back to Columbus Ohio 43214 home sale prices ...in July 2010

• Average active price  $221,000
• Average sale price $220,000
• Median sale price $195,000

This post brought to you by a home in the Delawanda Park neighborhood in the Columbus Ohio 43214 ZIP code priced at $114,987,  301 Girard Rd. Columbus Ohio 43214

Columbus Ohio 43214 homes for sale 

Columbus Ohio 43214 demographics

Published based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of July  2010.   Trendgraphix reports presented are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors.  According to Trendgraphix neither  CBR nor their MLS (multiple listing service ) guarantee or are in anyway responsible for it's accuracy. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed."   Therefor there is no guarantee from me either.

If you use the Columbus Ohio 43214 homes for sale link you will search the online inventory of Central Ohio homes on the Real Living HER site.   You will be offered the opportunity to receive listings directly from the Columbus Board of Realtors MLS (multiple listing service)  in real time. You are able to know the true status of those properties you are interested in.

A six year old home... Past is Prologue

Before you jump to any conclusions about who the Central Ohio builder is .... who did a bad job in installing the trim on this 6 year old home realize these home inspector photos are from out of state. 

This is not a Central Ohio home.  It could be.

Past is Prologue is a Re-Blog of a post from Jay Markanich in Virginia. 

Jay inspected this home when the present owners bought it four years ago. Jay writes: "This was something my client was told four years ago that he needed to handle immediately." 

If you bought a house in Central Ohio in the last year or four or five and the inspector told you to take care of some things... did you?  Dig out the report now... Past is Prologue...

Indian Springs Elementary School received a designation of "Excellent with Distinction" from the State of Ohio Department of Education for the 2009- 2010 school year.

Is "Excellent with Distinction" an A+ ?  It is the highest designation.  The six designations for schools in Ohio:

• Excellent with Distinction
• Excellent
• Effective
• Continuous Improvement
• Academic Watch
• Academic Emergency

The elementary school in the Columbus City School District is located at  50 E. Henderson Rd. Columbus Ohio 43214.  Map

Neighborhoods that attend Indian Springs Elementary School include: *Beechwold, Delawanda Park, Indian Springs, Old Beechwold and Tremont Gardens.   Indian Springs Elementary School attendance area

This post brought to you by 301 Girard Rd, Columbus OH 43214, a listing in the Delawanda Park neighborhood and the Indian Springs Elementary School attendance area.  The link above provide current information on that listing.

Worthington City Schools are  "Excellent" according to the Ohio Department of Education

School report cards are out and Worthington City Schools earned an Excellent for the 2009 2010 school year. Worthington schools got a Excellent with Distinction for the 2008 2009 school year.  

Worthington City Schools are "Excellent" - report card 2009 - 2010 school year

"Number of State Indicators Met out of 26"  "26"

Is "Excellent" an A? and "Excellent with Distinction" an A+?  The six designations for schools in Ohio:

• Excellent with Distinction
• Excellent
• Effective
• Continuous Improvement
• Academic Watch
• Academic Emergency

Friday the State of Ohio published the actual report cards which gave a lot more information about the school districts.  Also you can  look at grades for individual school buildings.  You can see how Thomas Worthington did in comparison to Worthington Kilbourne, the two Worthington high schools.   You will be able to see how Bluffsview, Wilson Hill, Worthington Park or Evening Street Elementary School did in comparison to other Worthington elementary schools.

More about Worthington City Schools

Worthington City Schools  2008 - 2009  repoprt card

Bluffsview Elementary School  2009 - 2010 school year

Worthington Schools history

The skinny on Columbus Ohio 43202... the Zip Skinny...

43202 is the ZIP code for Clintonville... kinda. 

North Broadway is in 43214?  I had a faux pas a few weeks ago...I thought surely North Broadway had to be in 43202.   It seems the next road south is 43202. 

Clintonville, Crestview, Glenola Heights, Indianola Highlands, Indianola Terrrace, Old North Columbus, University City, University District, Wallhalla Park Place and Walhalla Ravine are some of the North Columbus neighborhoods in the Columbus OHio 43202 ZIP code.

Search  Columbus Ohio 43202 homes for sale

Without further ado there is some info about the demographics in the Columbus Ohio 43202 ZIP code from Zip Skinny:

All will be updated soon of course, this is 2000  census data. And remember a ZIP code is just a mail route, not an area.... really. Click on the widget to go to the Zip Skinny site.

Columbus Ohio 43214 -   The skinny on the ZIP code north of the 43202 ZIP code, the Clintonville ZIP code... part of Clintonville is in the 43214 ZIP code too.

Columbus Ohio 43202 home prices

More flooring information from Debbie Gartner who works in New York   I have Re-Blogged Debbie's flooring posts for Central Ohio consumers before, look for posts about bamboo, laminate and wood floors. 

Thanks to Debbie for allowing her flooring information to be Re-Blogged.

Channeling backbiting for the full effect - ActiveRain channels

ActiveRain's got Channels.  When you write to consumers use Consumer channels.  IMHO when you write to tell others on ActiveRain, they are liars use a Professional channel. By using a professional channel you are talking to the liars not about them.

If you were posting calling your competitors liars where would you post that?  Would you post publicly to consumers that your competitors are liars?  Rebecca Diamond of Keller Williams in Bryn Mawr PA did.

Backbiting - calling others in the industry liars, lazy, stupid

Rebecca Diamond calling other agents liars, is Pennsylvania real estate news. That's one of the new community pages on ActiveRain.  Rebecca's post got featured as well, so it is on the ActiveRain dashboard, thats where most of us read it.  The tone sounds as if Rebecca is talking to others in the industry, not just about them to consumers. 

Rebecca chose a consumer channel to say Open Houses: Stop Lying to Your Client! 

What does ActiveRain say the channel the Home Selling channel Rebecca chose is about?

"How does one sell a home?  What happens if you're upsidedown on your mortgage? How long does the escrow process  take?  The answers to these questions and more lie on this channel, created specifically to address those hard-to-answer questions that home sellers have."

Emphasis is mine to show talking to home sellers.

Confused by Channels?  You should use consumer channels to talk to the General Public. Professional channels are for talking to those in the industry.

This post... I am talking about using ActiveRain channels... It's professional.

What professional channel do YOU use for calling others in the industry liars?

Backbiting could go in the ActiveRain channel if you are talking about ActiveRain members being liars. Or the Networking channel?  Or perhaps the Offline Marketing Channel?  All professional channels, for talking to others in the industry.

If I wanted to tell consumers in my community that real estate agents are lazy, liars, etc. I would use a consumer channel... and change the language to talk to consumers.

Or not....

Previous posts on ActiveRain channels:

ActiveRain Channels

ActiveRain Channels matter

ActiveRain's ActiveRain Channel is ActiveRain's Junk Drawer 

There are 166 Real Living HER Open Houses on the list this week.*  The list is the Real Living HER Open House List.

A little less than the last few  Sundays... Central Ohio kids are back to school. Or most... seems like one Delaware County School went back late...

Last Sunday "there are 208 homes on the list NOW"

August 15, 2010 "The Real Living HER Open House list  says there are 203 properties on the list this week."

Next weekend is Labor Day so there will probably be less open houses on the Real Living HER Open House List than usual.

Is Columbus a buyers market?  It is a good time as a buyer to look at homes.  It's a buyers market in most Central Ohio communities... not all.

The Real Living HER Open House List

The one and only Worthington home on the Real Living HER Open House List at this point is my listing at 1344 Snowmass Rd. Columbus OH 43235.  That could change though...  the Real Living HER Open House List is in real time.  Someone could list something new and that could change.  An agents Sunday plans could change and the number could go up.  A house could sell before the scheduled Open House and the seller and agent could say "Hallelujah" and cancel the open house.

September 12, 2010 will be Real Living HER's third Second Sunday Open House... for some reason that reminds me of our Fifth Third Bank. 

*The number of Real Living HER Open Houses is subject to change.  The Real Living HER Open House List is not an archive.  If you look at it always has the current open houses, rather than history.  The list is in "real time."

The link to the Real Living HER Open House List (above)  is to my website, MaureenMcCabe.com  I am not hosting all the Real Living open houses, but it will say presented by Maureen McCabe on my website.  The list provides you contact info for each Open House, if you need to contact the listing agent or host for that properties open house.

Just about every Real Living HER agent in Central Ohio should have the Real Living HER Open House List displayed on their website.

This a Re-Blog of a post from Sally Dunbar, a real estate agent in California.  Have you had an FHA mortgage?  Check if HUD owes you money. 

Thanks to Sally for allowing her message for consumers to be Re-Blogged.