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Real Estate Grants For Recent Ohio Graduates The Ohio Housing Financing Agency is currently offering an additional 2.5% financial assistance grant to Ohio College graduates! This is on top of the $8,000 Federal First Time Home Buyer Tax credit. Recent college graduates (within 18 months), includi...

Real Estate Grants For Recent Ohio Graduates The Ohio Housing Financing Agency is currently offering an additional 2.5% financial assistance grant to Ohio College graduates! This is on top of the $8,000 Federal First Time Home Buyer Tax credit. Recent college graduates (within 18 months), includi...

Case-Shiller Market report and our Cincinnati Real Estate Market Yesterday the Case-Shiller home price index came out, and it had some positive numbers. The C-S index looks at 20 major metropolitan real estate markets and watches the change in home sale prices on a monthly basis. The index provi...

Selling a Home In Cincinnati: August Report The Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors recently issued their monthly report. The news is pretty much what we all in the real estate field expected. Prices are still slightly depressed, but home sale volume is slightly better than last year. August 2009 ...

6630 Glen Acres Cincinnati Home for Sale Offered at $685,000 This beautiful traditional all brick home is located on a private lot at end of cul de sac. Situated on  1.2 acres, the rear deck features an enclosed hot tub that overlooks a fenced in yard with mature trees. Inside all of the baths a...

Cincinnati Foreclosures and the National Foreclosure Market Recently I have been working with a number of clients who have expressed interest in purchasing a foreclosed property simply because of the savings, compared to the market value of the home.  Foreclosures are still abundant in Cincinnat...

Green Homes That Snap Together I am always on the look out for interesting housing solutions. I recently saw the HIB building system being produced in Germany. The pieces of the house literally snap together like Legos! The modular blocks are created from local pine and insulated with materials ...

  Cincinnati Real Estate: Schools, Rules, and Taxes Every home buyer I work with has different criteria that defines what is ideal for them. I often hear phrases like ‘good school district’, ‘low taxes’, and ‘nice neighbors’.As a Cincinnati real estate agent licensed in Ohio, there are certain ru...

Cincinnati Stops Yard Waste Collection Most residents do not know it, but it is against the lay to throw your yard waste into the garbage.  It is an Ohio State law enacted because yard waste takes up almost 20% of the landfill space statewide. With fall clean up creeping up on us, everyone shoul...