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Discover Columbus is a site about Columbus Ohio. Originally named "Columbus Best Blog," it was never the best blog in Columbus Ohio. It was a blog about the best in Columbus and Central Ohio! Best restaurants, best real estate company, best schools, best neighborhoods..... written by Maureen McCabe a licensed real estate agent with Columbus Ohio's best real estate company, Real Living HER. Discover Columbus is just a site about Central Ohio.

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Powell real estate market - October 2009

Nov. 16, 2009
Categorized in: Columbus Real Estate

Powell real estate market  - inventory of homes for sale  brought to you by Maureen McCabe

Powell homes for sale  inventory  

Single family home sales for the City of Powell. Homes in unincorporated areas, Shawnee Hills, or the City of Columbus with a Powell mailing address are not included in this data or the graph showing Powell single family home inventory for the past 15 months.

Powell in Southern Delaware County is in the Olentangy local school district along with the Lewis Center area and more.

This data is for single family homes in Powell only!  It does not include condominiums.

Powell real estate market  - homes for sale through October 2009
98  homes for sale 
15  homes sold in October 2009
6.5 months of inventory based on sales

19% less homes for sale than a year ago.
51.5% less months of inventory (based on closed Sales) in comparison to October 2008

Powell real estate market  - home prices  October 2009

Average active price $440,000
Average sale price $322,000


Powell real estate market
- homes for sale in:

Neighbrohoods including Ashmoore, Golf Village, Grandshire, Lakes of Powell,  Murphy Park, Powell Place, The Chase, The Retreat, Woods of Powell South, Woods of Sawmill and many more.

Search for Powell homes for sale


Powell real estate market
- home sales October  2009

+66.7% home sales in October 2009 over October 2008
Average sale price $322,000
Median price $310,000

Powell real estate market -  home sales October 2009

There were homes sold in the Ashmoore, Daventry Pakr, Grandshire, Lakes of Powell, Liberty Ridge, Murphy's Park,  Olentangy Ridge, The Retreat and Woods of Powell neighborhoods in the month of October 2009.

Selling your Powell home

These are all single family homes only!  Previous monthly reports were single family and condominiums combined.  The graph here is only single family for all 15 months.  We can create separate graphs and data now for single family and condominiums. 

I am thrilled with this change in Trendgraphix.

Data published November 2009, based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of October 2009.   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 its accuracy. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed."  Only Real Living HER agents are authorized to use Trendgraphix in Central Ohio.

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. Sadly I did a short test of leaving comments open but got a rash of bot spam comments. Thanks. Copyright 2009 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe.  

Columbus Open House List

Aug. 14, 2009
Categorized in: Columbus Real Estate

The Columbus Open House List - Real Living HER - August 16, 2009

Real Living Open House ecard

"There are 163 Open Houses available" on the Real Living HER Open House List  now...  Click on the link for more details. This number is subjet to change. 

Search for Columbus Ohio Open House List - Real Living HER - Maureen McCabe

  • Clintonville homes for sale - Only One Open House this Sunday!
  • Columbus homes for sale -35  open houses Sunday from $69,900 to $599,000  
  • Dublin homes for sale - 10 open houses Sunday priced from $98,800 to $600,000
  • Gahanna homes for sale -  2 open houses this Sunday, priced from $219,500 to $349,900
  • Grandview Heights homes for sale - Only one open house this Sunday!
  • Hilliard homes for sale - 15 open houses Sunday priced from $89,900 to $467,500
  • Lewis Center homes for sale -  NO open houses this Sunday
  • New Albany homes for sale -   2 open houses this week priced from $350,000 to $979,900
  • Powell homes for sale -   5 open houses Sunday priced from $229,999 to $549,900
  • Upper Arlington homes for sale -4 open houses Sunday priced from $137,500 to $359,000
  • Westerville homes for sale - 4 open houses Sunday from $219,900 to $375,000
  • Worthington homes for sale -  2 open houses Sunday from $237,500 to $299,000

 

Columbus Ohio Open House Sunday 

If you visit my website ( the open house link above is to my website) each home on the Real Living HER Open House List is Presented by Maureen McCabe"Presented By" Maureen McCabe.  I am not holding all the houses open this week or any week. The same open house list is on each Real Living HER agent's site.

Each listing on the Real Living HER Open House List tells you who the listing agent and office is, or whom is holding the property open if you need that information.

The open house list is NOT archived.  If you look at this post in the future the link will go to the current Real Living HER Open House list.

The image at the top is a Real Living Open House ecard.


Maureen McCabe Real Living HER

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

Powell Property Values Going UP?

Feb. 28, 2008
Categorized in: Columbus Real Estate

Zillow says the values in Powell went up in the 4th Quarter of 2008.

 

Columbus on Zillow's Zindex

Assuming Zillow is talking the Powell Corporation (City of Powell) not the mailing address Powell 43065... from the 2-15-2008 Discover Columbus entry here...

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

Powell + 11.6%
Sunbury + 9.7%

Remember Zillow measures the values of all homes... not just the homes for sale or sold...and Zillow measures all homes (not just condo and single family)

Powell Home Sales for 15 months....

Date 10/06 11/06 12/06 1/07 2/07 3/07 4/07 5/07 6/07 7/07 8/07 9/07 10/07 11/07 12/07
For Sale 201 189 155 166 166 191 210 212 208 212 210 198 199 182 162
Sold 14 14 10 12 12 20 16 20 30 26 18 19 12 7 15
Pended 16 10 10 19 12 18 21 26 23 27 11 15 20 10 13
Months of Inventory based on Closed Sales 14.4 13.5 15.5 13.8 13.8 9.6 13.1 10.6 6.9 8.2 11.7 10.4 16.6 26.0 10.8
Months of Inventory based on Pended Sales 12.6 18.9 15.5 8.7 13.8 10.6 10.0 8.2 9.0 7.9 19.1 13.2 10.0 18.2 12.5
Avg. Active Price 371 364 377 361 355 372 375 384 380 385 379 379 372 369 376
Avg. Sld Price 305 344 373 392 337 283 341 348 348 305 362 298 415 289 392
Avg. Sq. Ft. Price 118 125 127 125 120 117 130 126 120 120 124 119 139 120 116
Sold/List Diff. % 95 97 97 96 97 97 100 98 97 98 95 97 103 95 96
Sold/Orig LP Diff. % 94 93 94 91 94 96 99 96 95 97 92 94 102 93 92
Days on Market 101 127 84 138 139 179 100 141 140 127 135 170 62 106 154
Median Price 288 325 345 356 309 284 307 329 333 294 350 298 427 308 339
*All reports are published Jan. 2008, based on data available at the end of Dec. 2007.
All reports presented are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors, Northern Ohio Regional MLS, Centralized Real Estate Information Service, Greater Cincinnati MLS and Dayton Area Board of Realtors or theirs MLSs. Neither the Association nor their MLSs guarantee or are in anyway responsible for its accuracy. Data maintained by the Association or their MLSs may not reflect all real estate activities in the market. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

Confusing.  I hope Zillow's crystal ball is correct and the value of porperties in Powell are increasing.

The Zillow  info came from the Zillow call I listened to a few weeks back.  The statistics in the table are from TrendGraphix.  Real Living HER is the only company in Central Ohio with access to TrendGraphix.  The numbers come from the Columbus Board of Realtors MLS.

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 2008 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe

 

Columbus on Zillow's Zindex

Feb. 14, 2008
Categorized in: Real Estate


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