Columbus Ohio real estate

Columbus, Ohio 43214 homes for sale brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER

The Columbus, Ohio 43214 homes for sale graph is single family homes only. The graphs show you inventory (months of homes for sale) for the past 15 months, for homes with a Columbus, Ohio 43214 mailing address.  There were 5.8 months of homes for sale based on October home sales, down from 8.7 months in September 2011. Six months of inventory is considered a balanced market, neither a seller's market or a buyer's market.  There was 12.8 months of inventory (Columbus, Ohio 43214 homes for sale) in October 2010.  

Columbus, Ohio 43214 homes for sale a market report for October 2011

Homes for sale - 179

Home sales -  31

Months of homes for sale based on October 2011 sales - 5.8

The number of homes for sale in the Columbus, Ohio 43214 zip code are only down  6.8% from a year ago,  Home sales were up over 100% so the months of inventory in Columbus, Ohio 43214 was down 54.9% from October 2010. 

Columbus, Ohio 43214 homes for sale - neighborhoods

The sign at the south edge of Worthington, at the Columbus Corporation Limit welcomes you to Clintonville.

Where does Clintonville begin and end?  Neighborhoods in the Columbus, Ohio 43214 zip code north of Clintonville (where ever it starts) include Beechwold, Chaseland, Delawanda Park, Old Beechwold,  Sharon Heights,  Zooland and others. Part of Clintonville is in the 43214 zip code, North Broadway is the furthest south street in the 43214 zip code.

Columbus, Ohio 43214 homes for sale by price range:

Columbus, Ohio 43214 homes for sale priced under $100,000

Columbus, Ohio 43214 homes for sale priced from $100,000 to $200,000

Columbus, Ohio 43214 homes for sale priced from $200,000 to $300,000

Change the search to reflect what you are looking for in price or area.  You are welcome to use the search on my site MaureenMcCabe.com to search more extensively for homes in the 43214 zip code, the Clintonville area or another Central Ohio area.  Contact me if you'd like to see a home, I'd love to work with you.  My site would give you access to virtually everything on the Columbus Board of REALTORS mls (multiple listing service) unlike the Oodle / Realbird search or searches like Zillow.com  or Trulia.com which only have some of the listings and often show properties that are no longer available.

Columbus, Ohio 43214 homes for sale- October  2011  was published November 2011 based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of October 2011.  Trendgraphix reports are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors. According to Trendgraphix neither CBR nor the mls (multiple listing service) guarantee or are in anyway responsible for the accuracy of the data. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed." Since I am relying on their info you have no guarantee from me either. A slight correction in the data is occasionally visible in a graph the following month.

Happy Thanksgiving

This is an old Real Living ecard.  A Thanksgiving ecard from Real Living before the merger.  

The Real Living real estate brand started in 2002 in Ohio with three Ohio real estate brokerages including HER Realtors in Central Ohio.  In 2010 Real Living merged with GMAC Real Estate (taking the Real Living name.)   This ecard is a remnant of the time between 2002 and 2010 when Real Living was based in Columbus, Ohio.  I have a stash of old ecards that look like the old Real Living, different.

I am an agent with Real Living HER Worthington.

I am thankful for:

Our new office in Old Worthington, Real Living HER Worthington

All the years at the old Worthington office at 6902 N. High St.  Worthington, most of them as HER Realtors.

Old friends who started the Real Living HER office in Lewis Center.

 

Happy Thanksgiving!  

Columbus homes for sale brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER

The graph is for homes for sale in Columbus schools for the past 15 months.  The graph and market report are for single family home sales in the Columbus City School District only.  This does not include condominiums.

You can see in the graph that months of inventory is way down from a year ago.  With 8.3 months of inventory available based on recent sales that's down from the 9.8 months available in October 2010, based on the sales las year.  Inventory typically is lower in the fourth quarter of the year in our area because of the holidays and weather.   You can see how inventory dropped from November to December 2010, but it's still higher than where we were at the end of October 2010.  It can be a good time for a home seller, less competition.

Columbus homes for sale a market report for October 2011

Homes for sale - 2383

Homes sold - 288

Months of inventory based on recent sales - 8.3

Single family home sales (closed) in the school district were up a smidgen (2 more homes sold than October 2010) but the number of homes for sale is down 15.3%.  The number of months of inventory is

The Columbus Board of Realtors announced October home sales for the whole MLS Monday. Sales for the entire MLS were up 8.6% from a year ago.  Columbus Board of REALTORS mls home sales for October 2011.

 

Columbus homes for sale - neighborhoods

The Columbus City School District is huge and diverse in home stock and price.  Areas in Columbus schools include some of the homes in the West Worthington area which is the Columbus, Ohio 43235 zip code, the Clintonville area on Columbus northside including the Columbus, Ohio 43202 and 43214 zip codes, parts of north-east Columbus, areas with Westerville, Gahanna and New Albany addresses and more.  The graph and data is for all neighborhoods throughout the area in the Columbus City School District, the largest local school district. 

Columbus homes for sale homes by price range

Columbus schools is so huge, I can not really do RealBird searches for neighborhoods.  I will if I get around to doing October market reports for Clintonville, West Worthington, etc. use the RealBird Google map searches.     You are welcome to use the search on either of my sites MaureenMcCabe.com or CbusHomesearch.com  to search more extensively for homes in Worthington or another Central Ohio school district or area.  Contact me if you'd like to see a home, I'd love to work with you.  My sites would give you access to virtually everything on the Columbus Board of REALTORS mls (multiple listing service) unlike the Oodle / Realbird search or  Zillow.com  or Trulia.com which only have some of the listings and often show properties that are no longer available.

Columbus Homes for Sale - October 2011 was published in November based on data available from the Columbus Board of Realtors mls at the end of October 2011.  Neither the mls or Trendgraphix guarantees the data so I can not either.  You can sometimes see small corrections to the data the next month.

Seduction in Clintonville or a bit  of Graceland history  -   In my weekly installment about how Graceland Shopping Center got it's name... actually it has been weeks.  I drove by the NEW business on High Street in the south end of Clintonville and it made me think about Graceland and how The Other Paper tells the story.  Seduction....

Here is how The Other Paper tells the story of Graceland on Columbus northside, below.... The seduction today is at Target, health club, shops and restaurants in Graceland Shopping Center in north Columbus.  Clintonville?   Clintonville or perhaps the neighborhood is  Sharon Heights, part of the Clintonville area! Clintonville does not have fixed borders, where Clintonville starts and ends is subjective.

Where Graceland is today was farmland in Sharon Township in the 30s, 40s and 1950s.....

 

The land was developed into a shopping center in the 1950s.

Without further ado.... The Other Paper says:

"In the 1930s, the Graceland Shopping Center-where Clintonville-ites now work out, bank and are seduced by the latest Target fashions-once was a horse farm belonging to Patrick Murnam, a gambling man whose mistress, Grace Backenstoe, operated a famous brothel Downtown, according to local historians. Police shut down the operation and the building eventually was sold to the Lazarus family, but that didn't stop ol' Grace from working at home, according to lore.

"In 1952, investors purchased (the farm) and Graceland Shoppers' Mart was developed by Don Casto, who had played there as a youth," said Shirley Hyatt, author of the book Clintonville and Beechwold (Images of America).

The May 2011 article by Lyndsey Teter of The Other Paper was about a new business moving to Clintonville.  A business owned by Larry Flynt.  Did you know the infamous Cincinnatian owned a business on Gay Street in downtown Columbus? That was long, long ago.   I heard that story at City Hop this fall....

The story of Graceland

How Graceland got it's name

Graceland's name... would you buy this story? 

Graceland a colorful story in black and white

Graceland Shopping Center - 2010

Graceland Shopping Center

The photo of the sign on the land that was a horse farm but would soon be a place for people in Clintonville and Worthington to shop is Don O'Brien's taken for the Worthington News, a newspaper in 1953.   O'Brien shared the photo with a Creative Commons license.

The Santa Maria's regular season ended Sunday and now the museum ship on the Scioto is playing "The HAuNtED SHiP"

The Haunted Ship is only October 27 to 29th according the the official site of the Santa Maria

In the Spirit of Halloween

A Worthington Ghost Story

 A Southern Delaware County Haunted House Tale

Worthington Ghost Story - the tale of Rap, Rap, Rap

Worthington Ghosts - The Worthington Medical College

The Columbus Zoo  (the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium)  rescued animals from the Zanesville, Ohio exotic animal farm tragedy. 

 

According to an NBCi4 article:

"Six animals were caught and transported to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium: one grizzly bear, three leopards and two macaques (a breed of monkey)."

*"Sheriff Says He's Convinced There Are No Animals At Large"  written by Denise Yost yesterday, says:

• The rescued exotic animals are owned by Terry Thompson's widow
• The rescued animals will be quarantined at the Columbus Zoo
• The Wilds in Muskingum County a conservation center helped with the rescue
• The local zoo reached out to other zoos for possible placement of the rescued animals

Is the black cat a leopard? That is one lucky black cat.

The article and others enumerated the breeds and numbers of animals who died on Tuesday evening and Wednesday in Zanesville.

*More information was added to "Sheriff Says He's Convinced There Are No Animals At Large"  and the title became "Big Cat Apparently Bit Animal Farm Owner's Head; Body Dragged" sometime Thursday.   The embeddable video was added to the story as well.  

Lions Tigers Bears in Ohio - Zanesville

Thanks to the Columbus Zoo and NBC 4 for sharing the video.

Columbus home sales brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER 

This graph is homes for sale and homes sold in the Columbus City School District for the past 15 months. The light green bar are Columbus schools homes for sale and the dark green bar are Columbus schools home sales.   The 265 homes sold in September compared to 272 in September 2010.  The inventory of homes for sale is down from a year ago, 2501 vs. 2992 in September 2010.

Franklin County Ohio home sales  Overall Franklin County, Ohio September 2011 home sales were up 2.7% over September 2010.

Columbus home sales a market report for September 2011

Unlike many areas of Central Ohio home sales were not up in September 2011.  September Columbus (schools) home sales were down 4.3% from last year.  Inventory (homes for sale) in the school distrrict is down 16.4% from a year ago. While you can not see it from this graph, home prices in September in the area were up a healthy 16% from September 2010.

Columbus home sales -  September  2011  (the Columbus City School District) was published October 2011 based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of Septemer 2011.  Trendgraphix reports are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors. According to Trendgraphix neither CBR nor the mls (multiple listing service) guarantee or are in anyway responsible for the accuracy of the data. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed." Since I am relying on their info you have no guarantee from me either. You can see a slight correction in the data and graph the following month.

Trick -or -Treat 2011 or Beggars Night 2011 is on Halloween.   In "Beggars Night date moves again" in the Columbus Dispatch back in 2009, Debbie Gebolys looked into the future and told us what was going to happen in Central Ohio in 2011.  

"So trick-or-treat is Oct. 31 as long as it's a weekday. If Halloween falls on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, go out on the Thursday before Halloween.

That puts Beggars Night on Oct. 29 this year, Oct. 28 next year and on Oct. 31 in 2011."

For many years Beggars Night (or Beggar's Night?, the night belongs to beggars? ) or "Tick-or-Treat" was not on Halloween in many Columbus area communities.    MORPC changed all that back in 2005.  I believe the quote above is the rule of thumb for determining when Trick-or Treat will occur.  Not all communities follow MORPC's advice about when to hold Trick-or-Treat.  With Halloweek falling on a Monday this year, everyone will be Trick-or-Treating at the same night.   Won't they?

 The Wikipedia listing for "Beggars Night" mentioned Ohio

"Beggars Night, or more properly Beggars' Night, is a regional term for the Halloween-related activity that is referred to in most parts of the United States as "Trick or Treat". Specifically, the term is broadly but not exclusively used in Ohio, and in many parts of Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and western New York. " is a quote from Wikipedia. The entry is dated October 2, 2010 and could obviously change...   I broke links to all the Wikipedia articles for the states and for Halloween and Trick or Treat.

Haunted Ohio - places in Columbus

Image credit: The image is a Real Living ecard.  Real Living is a real estate brokerage.  I am an agent with Real Living HER.

 

Graceland...who is Graceland named after?  Would you buy this story?

Graceland is in north Columbus.  Today it is called Graceland Shopping Center.  Graceland has a Target, a Kroger,  an Urban Active, an Applebees, an OfficeMax and more... 

When the mall was developed by Don M. Casto and Don M. Casto Jr.  it was named Graceland Shoppers Mart... or the sign on the land called the future shopping center, Graceland Shoppers Mart in 1953. The shopping center opened in 1954.

I think I first read about the "Madam" who turns out to be named "Grace" on Don O'Brien's Flickr photostream with this picture of the sign on the land in 1953.  O'Brien took this photo for the Worthington News.   On Flickr on his photo of the remains of the house on the farm called "Graceland" and the sign announcing the new shopping center, named Graceland, O'Brien quotes the Graceland site of George Campbell about the story of the name:

"Graceland was built on a former horse farm, named "Graceland", that was co-owned by a Columbus Bookmaker and his wife, a Madam. When the property came up for sale, the Casto and Gibson families purchased it for $100,000."

 

Yes Graceland is named after Grace but would  you buy this story?

Graceland the shopping area is named after Graceland the horse farm...  named after someone named Grace... see 'How Graceland got it's name' and 'Graceland a Colorful History in Black and White' links below... 

The Other Paper in May 2011 offered this story about who the Columbus shopping center is named after, quoting Clintonville Historian Shirley Hyatt, Lyndsey Teter wrote:

"Casto says it is named after his mother, not the Madam," but that story is commonly rejected, Hyatt said. Plus, that version "is just not as much fun."

More of the story of Graceland....

How Graceland got it's name

Graceland a Colorful History in Black and White

Graceland Shopping Center - 2010

Graceland Shopping Center  (a photo of remains of the "Madam's house" at the Graceland horse farm before the Graceland Shopping Center was developed)  

Photo Credit:  Don O'Brien's photo of the Graceland sign from the 1950s is licensed with a Creative Commons license.  He grew up in the Worthington area and has great Columbus and Worthington photos from the 1930s on, on his Flickr photostream.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/dok1/ / CC BY 2.0 I believe this is one of the photos he took for the Worthington News.

This weekend is Experience Columbus Days in Columbus Ohiobecause this coming Monday is Columbus Day. Details of all the things to do in Central Ohio are on Experience Columbus.  50% off many attractions and entertainment venues througout Central Ohio.  25% off a number off many local restaurants. 

 

Places to visit in Columbus Ohio, this Experience Columbus Days weekend include:

• The Columbus Zoo
• COSI
• Franklin Park Convervatory
• Columbus Museum of Art
• Santa Maria

The Columbus Italian Festival in Italian Village is this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  There is a $2 off one day admission coupon on the Experience Columbus site.   The Columbus Italian Festival is again trying for the biggest meatball....

Tomorrow is the Santa Maria's 20th Birthday?  Details on the Experience Columbus site. There is a FREE party tomorrow to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the floating museum. 

Experience Columbus Days has a new theme this year, other years the theme was "Come Play in our Backyard"  I liked the elephant in the back yard.  Bodhi, the older baby elephant (6 years old?)  is moving to Denver soon.  This may be a good weekend to say good-bye to Bodhi. 

From the Experience Columbus website "Experience Columbus is the official travel and tourism resource for Columbus, Ohio. 614-221-6623, 866-397-2657 "