November 2   Celebrate with The Nutcracker on State - downtown Capital Square

• Tickets for The Nutcracker go on sale to the public
• Donate peanut butter for a discount
• Nutcracker Boulevard street sign will be unveiled at the corner of State and High streets
  
• "Officially kicking off the holiday season"

November 6 Veterans Day Parade Noon Downtown Columbus at the  State House

November 7   Gallery Hop Short North

November 8   Dancing with The Nutcracker 322 Mt. Vernon Ave., Columbus, 43215

Peanut Butter donation gets you in FREE?

November 12-15  Mid-Ohio Cluster Dog Show -  Ohio Expo Center

November 15 Hockey Fest - Blue Jackets   Nationwide Arena

November 11-20   Wildlights at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium

November 20   Fantasy of Lights, Alum Creek State Park Marina

November 28   Holiday Lights Parade & Festival - Gahanna

November 28   Grandview Hop

November 29   Worthington Holiday Open House

Visit Experience Columbus for more  details about these events and others

OSU Buckeye Football

COSI

Ohio Historical Society and Village

Columbus Metro Parks November there are still beautiful leaves!

Thanksgiving is November 26, 2009

Previously posted to Discover Columbus OH ( a different blog), Worthington Old and News, ActiveRain, Localism and basically all over creation.

Do you see the deer in the photo? In a backyard in Columbus...

I'd love to hear from you if you have a comment on the topic. All comments are moderated so you will not see your comment immediately. Thanks. Copyright 2009 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe

Tuesday I listened to a conference call about 4th Quarter Home Values from Zillow.  Dr. Stan Humphries (Humphries is ”Zillow’s chief Zestimator” according to a post about the conference call on ActiveRain.  The press release refers to Humphries as “Zillow vice president of data and analytics.”)  Humphries ran through a lot of numbers and a lot of slides on the Zillow site…

A Zestimate is a homes value.  Those Zestimates make up a Zindex.

Zillow 4th Quarter Report

“Home Values Continued Decline in Fourth Quarter, Leaving Approximately One in Three New Homeowners With Negative Equity”

If you look at the national map…(on the Zillow site in the report) there are diamonds in various colors  to represent the increase and decrease in value by market (MSA.) The red color is the highest appreciation in value and the darkest blue is the most depreciation in value of homes in the market.

On the national map, Central Ohio (Columbus) is a yellow diamond meaning the value is even, unchanged. A number California and Florida communities have values that have declined, lots of blue, deep, deep blue in California and Florida.  Nationally there are not a lot of red area,  Junction City Colorado, a market in western New York state, a market in Oklahoma. 

Zoom in closer to home in Ohio and you can see Central Ohio cities, Delaware, Dublin, Gahanna, Galena, Powell, Sunbury, Upper Arlington, Westerville, Worthington…

The diamonds are red (good, value up) to Navy (bad value down) on the map. I have tried to replicate that in the list below... my apologies that it makes it hard to read in the yellow range... 

The Red of this spectrum Home Values are Up 9%+   Hot?

Powell + 11.6%
Sunbury + 9.7%

A Reddish Orange ....Tangerine Home Values are Up 4% to 8%

Galena +4.3%
Delaware +5.5%
Westerville +4.9%

The Color of OJ or Squash.... Home Values are Up 1% to 3%

Grove City + 2.3%

Yellow Home Values are Unchanged 

Upper Arlington +.1
Worthington -.2
Gahanna -.8

If you can't read the yellow... Home Values are Unchanged.  Homes in the market are virtually unchanged.

Chartreuse Home Values are Down 1% to 2 %

Columbus -1.2%
Dublin - 1.7 %

Green Home Values are Down 5%-6%

New Albany -4.1%

Aqua Home Values are Down 7 to 9%

No Central Ohio
Turquoise* Home Values are Down 7% to 9%

Reynoldsburg - 7.1%

Blue Home Values are Down 10% to 12%

No Central Ohio

Bluer Home Values are Down 13% to 16%

No Central Ohio

Bluer than Blue Home Values are Down 16-19%

No Central Ohio

The Deepest Darkest Navy Blue - Home Values are Down 20% +

No Central Ohio

If you can't read the yellow... Home Values are Unchanged. 

Zillow's Zindex is the value of all homes in a market... not just those that have sold. 

Maureen McCabe Real Living HER Worthington

I'd love to hear from you if you have a comment on the topic of home values in our market or elsewhere. All comments are moderated so you will not see your comment immediately. Thanks. Copyright 2008 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe

Gahanna Holiday Lights Parade and Festival is Saturday, November 24, 2007. Gahanna calls it "Central Ohio's Original All Lighted Nighttime Parade"

Lights at Creekside Park in Gahanna offer a "Winter Wonderland" througout the Holiday Season, from the 24 of November 2007 to January 02, 2008. Creekside Park's address is 123 Mill St. in Gahanna.

Copyright 2007 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe

Ohio is the top tree planting state in the United States according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.   Columbus is one of the Tree City USA communities in Ohio according to The Abor Day Foundation website.   

"Ohio, for the 26th year, has more Tree City USA communities - 249 - than any other state. Ohioans last year planted more than 35,000 trees and spent more than $36 million on urban forestry efforts." according to an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. 

Get a membership package from the Arbor Day Foundation and get ten free trees.  Choices suitable for planting in Cetnral Ohio include: 

 
 10 Flowering Trees or  10 Colorado Blue Spruces or  10 Trees Mix or  10 Wild Bird Garden or  10 Oak Trees
 10 White Pines or 10 Redbuds or  10 Norway Spruces or 10 Autumn Classics or  10 White Dogwoods, photos and additional info on the Arbor Day site.  

I understand the trees will be shipped when it is suitable to plant them... which I believe is March.  Arbor Day is April 27, 2007.

Columbus has been a Tree City USA city for 27 years, the longest of any city in the state I believe.  Other Tree City USA communities include Bexley, Canal Wincherster, Dublin, Gahana, Grandview Heights, Hilliard, Pickerington, Powell, Upper Arlington, Westerville and  Worthington.   Congratulations to all for making it greener and prettier in Ohio.

Copyright 2007 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe