mls: Columbus Board of REALTORS MLS Home Sales - March 2012
- 04/09/12 10:37 AM
Home Sales Columbus Board of REALTORS MLS This graph shows home sales and homes for sale for the entire Columbus Board of REALTORS mls (multiple listing service) for the past 15 months. The graph is for single family homes (does not include condominiums) for the whole mls as a geographic area. The area served by the Columbus Board of REALTORS mls is big. How big? "The Columbus Board of REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service (MLS) serves all of Franklin, Delaware, Fayette, Licking, Madison, Morrow, Pickaway and Union Counties and parts of Athens, Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Fairfield, Hocking, Knox, Logan, Marion, Muskingum, Perry
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mls: Home Sales Up according to the Columbus Board of REALTORS®
- 11/22/11 08:35 AM
October 2011 Home Sales Up according to the Columbus Board of REALTORS®, The Columbus Board of REALTORS announced to members, the media and the public yesterday that home sales were up in October 2011. Quoting the Columbus Board of Realtors: "Home sales in central Ohio home have exceeded 2010 for the last four months according to the Columbus Board of REALTORS®. The 1,543 homes sold in October marks an 8.6 percent increase over the 1,421 homes sold in October of 2010. Home sales in September were up 16.6 percent compared to the year before." I usually post market reports
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mls: Columbus real estate online - how accurate is it?
- 01/25/11 11:07 PM
How accurate is Columbus real estate online? You as a buyer or seller or just someone interested in local real estate have access to a lot of information online about homes for sale: Zillow.com Trulia.com Realtor.com Above are the big three... Realtor.com is the biggest of the three, most traffic, but Realtor.com has a lot more listings than the other two. There's lots of little places where the information about "Columbus homes for sale" is syndicated. Some examples are: Oodle, Hot Pads... Syndication is a good thing but it would be better if you could rely on the information you
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mls: Columbus home prices are down?
- 07/08/10 12:16 AM
June 2010 - Columbus home prices are down -0.4% from May 2010... the Columbus Dispatch reported in late June that prices were falling. The June 27 article said: "With dropping home prices, record-low mortgage rates and special offers, buyers who missed out on the $8,000 federal tax credit are coming out further ahead." Link below. Of course if Weiker was interviewing buyers who were putting homes in contract in June at phenomenal savings that will show in July or August closings. This graph shows home prices for the Columbus Board of REALTORS® MLS (multiple listing service) area for the past
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mls: Columbus Ohio home sales up 26.2%
- 06/09/10 10:57 AM
May 2010 Columbus Ohio home sales up 26.2% by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER Central Ohio home sales were up 26.2 % in the month of May 2010, from May 2009. The graph shows homes for sale and homes sold for the past 15 months, through May 2010. This is for all counties served by the Columbus Board of REALTORS® MLS. This is just single family homes...it does not include condominiums or mult family homes. The official results from the Columbus Board of REALTORS will be released later in the month. They do all residential combined. What Ohio
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mls: Columbus home sales up 40%
- 05/21/10 04:57 AM
Columbus homes sales up 40% in April 2010 according to the Columbus Board of REALTORS® numbers released on May 21, 2010: "The 2,093 homes sold last month represented a 22.8 percent increase over the previous month and a 39.1 percent increase over April of 2009." The "Columbus" here means Central Ohio of course. The title of the CBR News is "April saw 40 percent increase in home sales in central Ohio" The area is way bigger area than the City of Columbus. According to the CBR release "The Columbus Board of REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service (MLS) serves all of Franklin,
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mls: #12 Clintonville - Columbus Best Neighborhood
- 05/09/10 12:06 AM
Clintonville is #12 of '365 Places to Live in Columbus'... it is a poll that has been on ColumbusBestBlog.com since 2007... it is a poll of City of Columbus neighborhoods, in the Columbus City School District...not that there is anything wrong with City of Columbus neighborhoods in suburban school districts... ... City of Columbus neighborhoods in the Columbus school district, downtown, German Village, Victorian Village, Italian Village, Merion Village, Westgate. Clintonville is winning the poll... but not far ahead of a surprise to me... Clintonville homes for sale - Search Other Clintonville posts on ColumbusBestBlog.com... my main site. More about
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mls: Columbus Ohio Flood of 2010
- 04/07/10 11:55 PM
The Columbus Flood of 2010 - Columbus home buyers beware of floods... Not the kind that there is flood insurance for ... although flood insurance has been in the news recently. This is a flood of new listings that could occur in your mailbox or Client Gateway... (your agent can set you up a Client Gateway on the Columbus Board of REALTORS multiple listing service, known as the MLS.) The Columbus Board of REALTORS has been warning that our MLS areas will go away this year... actually I believe MLS areas were supposed to go away last year or maybe
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mls: Columbus home market continues to improve
- 02/26/10 10:00 AM
"Columbus home market continues to improve" according to the Columbus Board of REALTORS®. The official results for January 2010 were reported today. According to CBR "...the 6.2 percent growth in average sale price, indicates a market that is returning to sustainability." The graph is average home prices for the entired MLS. The pricing is for single family and condominiums combined. The CBR says "The average sale price in January was $145,993, up from $137,446 in January 2009" Change in sold home prices from January 2009 for selected school districts! Columbus schools average home price + 15.6% Dublin schools
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mls: Central Ohio home prices by school district
- 02/25/10 12:07 AM
Central Ohio home prices by school district brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER Central Ohio home prices by school district for January 2010 - All are the average sold price for single family homes! Big Walnut schools average home price $47,000* Buckeye Valley schools average home price $225,000 Columbus schools average home price $82,000 Dublin schools average home price $301,000 Gahanna Jefferson schools average home price $303,000 Grandview Heights schools average home price $264,000 Hilliard schools average home price $181,000 New Albany (Plain Local School District) average home price $480,000 Olentangy schools average home price $375,000
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mls: Columbus homes for sale
- 02/10/10 01:00 AM
Columbus homes for sale brought to you by Maureen McCabe Real Living HER This graph shows homes for sale inventory for the past 15 months, through January 2010. The homes here are all over Central Ohio. This graph and the market report represent homes all over Central Ohio, the entire Columbus Board of REALTORS® MLS (multiple listings service.) Six months inventory of homes is usually considered balanced, neither a buyers market or sellers market. The official word from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® about January 2010 home sales will come out in a couple of weeks. Columbus homes for
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mls: Columbus Board of Realtors - Breaking News... December home sales
- 01/25/10 02:05 AM
The Columbus Board of Realtors announced the results of December 2009 home sales today. The sales results page of Columbus Realtors Website: 2009 ends with a bang for Columbus home sales "Home sales in the last four months of 2009 were up 24.3 percent over the same time in 2008, according to the Columbus Board of REALTORS®. In the month of December alone, 1,464 homes were sold, 150 more than the year before." I start doing quick market reports each month as soon as Real Living HER has access to data to build graphs from Trendgraphix.
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mls: Central Ohio home prices - 2009
- 01/11/10 08:39 AM
Central Ohio home prices brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER How did list and sale prices hold up through 2009? The graph above is for the whole Columbus Board of REALTORS®. The Columbus Board's MLS (multiple listing service) covers a lot more ground than I do... The graph shows the average list and sale price of Central Ohio homes for the past 15 months. Central Ohio home prices a market report for December 2009 Average list (active) price $224,000 Average sale price $161,000 Median price $125,000 On average in December 2009 homes sold
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mls: Central Ohio homes for sale
- 01/08/10 10:13 AM
Central Ohio homes for sale brought to you by Maureen McCabe Real Living HER The homes represented by this graph are single family homes in the whole area served by the Columbus Board of REALTORS®. All counties!Central Ohio homes for sale - a market reportCentral Ohio home sales in December 2009 vs December 2008 -4.5% Homes for sale - 10062Homes sold in December 2009 - 1127 Months of inventory based on current sales - 8.9-12.4% homes for sale than a year ago -8.2% months of inventory (based on closed Sales) in comparison to December 2008 Average active price $224,000Average
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mls: How do Home Buyers Find Their Home?
- 12/23/09 10:50 PM
My friend Don in CT. shares how buyers find your home. This is national. Is your Central Ohio home poised to be found by buyers? A new report just released by Inman News details how home buyers ultimately find their new home. The results are not surprising: 36% of all home buyers found the home they purchased through their real estate agent 36% of all home buyers found the home they purchased on the internet Just with the two items above, a whopping 72% of all recent home buyers found their new home through their agent or through their
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mls: Columbus Ohio homes on most overpriced list?
- 12/15/09 01:54 AM
How can Columbus Ohio homes even be on Forbes - Where U.S. Homes are Most Overpriced list? Columbus Ohio Average Sale Price $164,268 (year to date official average price per the Columbus Board of REALTORS® through October 2009) for the Columbus Ohio MLS (the multiple listing service, real estate agents are members.) Columbus Ohio homes - Clues ...ah ha it is price not value... My first clue? California cities are on the bottom of the list. Cities like San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose... while I don't know their official average price or even their median home price, I know it
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mls: Columbus homes sales rise 10%
- 10/31/09 11:28 PM
The Columbus Board of Realtors announced homes sales rose 10% in September 2009 Columbus home sales rise 10% The Columbus Board of REALTORS® covers more ground than I do. I work primarily in northern Franklin County and Southern Delaware County - Maureen McCabe How much did home sales rise in your area? Clintonville home sales (mls area) + 20.5% home sales in September 2009 over September 2008Average Clintonville home sale price $187,000 Dublin home sales (Dublin Schools) + 70.4% home sales in September 2009 over September 2008 Average Dublin home sale price $267,000 Gahanna home sales (Gahanna Jefferson
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mls: Columbus Board of REALTORS® - July Sales Results
- 08/21/09 11:34 AM
The Columbus Board of REALTORS ® (CBR) supplied the local media with July 2009 sales. In an email to association members the board said "The following will be released to the media this morning, Aug. 21, 2009" How is the Columbus Ohio real estate maket doing? According to CBR: "Home prices, sales, inventory continue positive trends, Key indicators point to increased stability in central Ohio market" CBR reported over 2000 residential properties sold. There was 7.23 months of inventory, doww from a year ago. The 7.23 months supply of homes is for the area served by the Columbus Board
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mls: Columbus Board of REALTORS® Consumer Information
- 07/19/09 12:22 AM
The Columbus Board of REALTORS® is a trade group for those in the real estate industry in Central Ohio. The Columbus Board of REALTORS® maintains the multiple listing service for it's members. Real estate agents are licensed by the state of Ohio. We join real estate associations (or boards) locally. It's been that way for a long, long time. The Columbus Board of REALTORS® is sometimes referred to as CBR. Columbus real estate blogs I know when I started the original Columbus Best Blog (renamed Discover Columbus at some point) back in 2005 the only Columbus real estate blog I could
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mls: Creeping Real Estate Acronyms
- 05/07/09 03:40 AM
In this age of TARP (toxic asset something or other) and other new acronyms creeping into jargon each day, is it becoming harder and harder to talk to one another? I was using BPO in a conversation with a past client recently... more than once. He had to ask. Mea Culpa (forgive me.) What is the Columbus MSA? After posting a couple of posts about home values recently I wondered if everyone reading would know what the Columbus MSA is. Some will. Some won't. MSA from Answer.com include Medical Savings Account and Metropolitan Service Area. I always thought it was
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