NEOtrans business, development, real estate, construction and market trend news from the West side of Cleveland
Anyone who has tried to buy a high-quality, competitively-priced home in Lakewood in the last year or two knows the drill. The real estate search is one of the most difficult scavenger hunts you’ll play. Unless you’re willing to sacrifice many features you want in a home or make a high, all-cash offer, a Lakewood housing hunt is not a game for the impatient.
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Over the past 30 years, Lakewood has lost more than 1,700 housing units, with only Cleveland, East Cleveland and Euclid losing more. The average age of its housing stock is the second-oldest in the county. At the same time, growing interest in traditional, walkable communities has made Lakewood a hot real estate commodity. It’s why Lakewood had the highest property value rate of increase, 22.5 percent, among all Cuyahoga County communities in 2018.
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More developments are cozying up to the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s. Red Line and station in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. The scope and scale of the planned developments are unlike anything that’s been built along Cleveland’s underutilized rail transit system, outside of the downtown area and University Circle. The lack of dense developments around rail stations has a direct correlation to the usage of the rail system. But that’s starting to change.
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Gentrification and Cleveland aren’t words that have gone together much in recent decades. But they’re mixing more often and, unfortunately, forcing more persons to relocate without them reaping financial windfalls from real estate sales.
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In a follow-up to an earlier posting here at NEOtrans about Lakewood redevelopment, there is new activity to report. Two significant properties for sale are reportedly under contract to buyers who want to redevelop these with new uses.
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Lakewood’s primary commercial district, Detroit Avenue, is becoming a lot more residential. The changeover in land use is due in large part to a change in business preferences, resulting in opportunities to offer contemporary housing in a stable, walkable community. The last time the city had so much land available for development was before the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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Now that contractors were chosen for $25 million worth of transit and pedestrian enhancements to Clifton Boulevard, a formal groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for Sept. 13. But after the West
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