NMHC Quarterly Survey of Apartment Market Conditions
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Thursday, January 26, 2006
Summit, Cuyahoga & Stark County News Bytes
PLANT CLOSINGS
Newell Rubbermaid closing in Canton
Newell Rubbermaid Inc. will close its plant in Perry Township, near Canton, that employs about 260 hourly and 30 salaried workers. The Atlanta company said more than 60 percent of the workers will be offered jobs at the Rubbermaid plant in Mogadore, which is about 30 miles away, and the rest of the workers will receive severance packages. The company said the plant closing is part of an effort to reduce overhead costs. The plants make plastic products.
BIG-BOX RETAIL
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Steelyard Commons
What: 1 million-square-foot open-air shopping center on 125 acres of vacant industrial land. More than 50 stores and restaurants, including Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Target, IHOP and Ruby Tuesday.
Developer: First Interstate Properties Ltd.
Cost: $120 million
Status: Construction started in September. Demolition of existing buildings is complete. Contractors are installing utility infrastructure and completing embankment needed for Quigley Road connector. Financing package, expected to be passed by Cleveland City Council this month, will create a $15 million fund for extending Towpath Trail from Harvard Avenue to the project and assisting revitalization efforts in surrounding areas.
Timetable: Building construction expected to start in May; grand opening in March 2007.
Other developments
City View Center in Garfield Heights, an $80 million, 700,000-square-foot big-box center being developed by Solon's John McGill, should be ready for tenants in the next two months. Grand opening is scheduled for May. Tenants include Wal-Mart, OfficeMax, Home Depot and Giant Eagle.
McGill will build another 200,000 square feet of retail, along with about 250 housing units, at the former Cornerstone project in Parma Heights, with portions ready by spring 2007
Chardon developer buys resort
Kiebler plans to expand New York facility
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Christopher Montgomery Plain Dealer Reporter
Findley Lake, N.Y.- Chardon developer Paul Kiebler has agreed to buy the Peek'n Peak Resort and Conference Center in Findley Lake, N.Y., a popular ski and golf destination for Northeast Ohioans. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
Kiebler said at a news conference at the Inn at the Peak on Wednesday that he plans to expand the resort during the next five to 10 years by adding a spa and more ski trails, lifts, condominiums and hotel rooms.
The goal is to make the resort a year-round destination.
Newell Rubbermaid closing in Canton
Newell Rubbermaid Inc. will close its plant in Perry Township, near Canton, that employs about 260 hourly and 30 salaried workers. The Atlanta company said more than 60 percent of the workers will be offered jobs at the Rubbermaid plant in Mogadore, which is about 30 miles away, and the rest of the workers will receive severance packages. The company said the plant closing is part of an effort to reduce overhead costs. The plants make plastic products.
BIG-BOX RETAIL
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Steelyard Commons
What: 1 million-square-foot open-air shopping center on 125 acres of vacant industrial land. More than 50 stores and restaurants, including Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Target, IHOP and Ruby Tuesday.
Developer: First Interstate Properties Ltd.
Cost: $120 million
Status: Construction started in September. Demolition of existing buildings is complete. Contractors are installing utility infrastructure and completing embankment needed for Quigley Road connector. Financing package, expected to be passed by Cleveland City Council this month, will create a $15 million fund for extending Towpath Trail from Harvard Avenue to the project and assisting revitalization efforts in surrounding areas.
Timetable: Building construction expected to start in May; grand opening in March 2007.
Other developments
City View Center in Garfield Heights, an $80 million, 700,000-square-foot big-box center being developed by Solon's John McGill, should be ready for tenants in the next two months. Grand opening is scheduled for May. Tenants include Wal-Mart, OfficeMax, Home Depot and Giant Eagle.
McGill will build another 200,000 square feet of retail, along with about 250 housing units, at the former Cornerstone project in Parma Heights, with portions ready by spring 2007
Chardon developer buys resort
Kiebler plans to expand New York facility
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Christopher Montgomery Plain Dealer Reporter
Findley Lake, N.Y.- Chardon developer Paul Kiebler has agreed to buy the Peek'n Peak Resort and Conference Center in Findley Lake, N.Y., a popular ski and golf destination for Northeast Ohioans. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
Kiebler said at a news conference at the Inn at the Peak on Wednesday that he plans to expand the resort during the next five to 10 years by adding a spa and more ski trails, lifts, condominiums and hotel rooms.
The goal is to make the resort a year-round destination.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Monday, January 23, 2006
Real Estate Funds outlook good for 2006... Click here for more
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Friday, January 20, 2006
2 Low-income housing complexes in Akron get state funding for Major Upgrades
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Thursday, January 19, 2006
Cuyahoga Falls Shopping Center to get Face-Lift, Retail Closing, etc..
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Boom May Be Spilling Over To More Affordable Housing Markets
by Broderick Perkins Realty Times
(FIND INFO ABOUT WHAT AREAS MAKE SENSE AND START TO BUILD YOUR TEAM BY ATTENDING OUR OUT OF STATE EXPO ON JAN 28TH.-pr )
Estacada, an isolated community of 2,500 residents, 25 miles southeast of the booming Portland real estate market, is on tap to build 450 homes this year with another 1,000 lots likely to be approved in the next few years.
In West Virginia, home sales soared 21.7 percent in mid year, in part, because home prices in some West Virginian cities were nearly half the national average and that attracted spill over demand from the Washington, D.C. area, one of the nation's hottest housing markets.
For most of 2005, home price appreciation in sleepy Yuma, AZ grew faster than any other city monitored by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's (OFHEO). Farm workers and others moving away from the expensive Southern California and Las Vegas area markets came to cash in on affordable housing.
Old housing market bubbles don't die, they just spill over into adjacent markets. As home prices and sales in many large booming real estate markets flatten, there's growing evidence that much of the housing market boom is alive and well. Only the locations are changing. Baby boomers feathering retirement nests, boomers' kids, migrating immigrants and speculators looking for greater returns on their investments are on the leading edge of what could be a geographical shift in the housing boom.
McGraw-Hill Construction and Deloitte & Touche's USA Homebuilding Survey says a "moderate slowdown in certain regions of the U.S. housing market" appears more likely than a bust because even with recent mortgage interest rate increases, rates remain relatively low, at about half what they were in previous housing booms. Questioning home builders to examine their strategies to make a profit in the coming "slow down" the survey revealed an underlying theme -- communities that don't always make front page real estate news.
Demand from the population of baby boomers -- the leading edge of which reaches the age of 60 this year -- has already shaped the first and second housing markets and are expected to increase the demand for homes in retirement and age-restricted communities. Younger boomers are moving up to larger, pricier homes and they continue to buy second homes as getaways and vacation spots. Their kids, just entering the housing market, will add to the demand.
But with hot housing markets in the popular areas of California, Florida, the Northwest and Northeast persistently deemed over priced, investors are already fleeing and rank and file home buyers are likely to follow. Boston-based think tank the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth found that one third of the state's boomers intend to retire out of state. The study said aging baby boomers are discouraged from staying in the state because they want to live somewhere affordable, to pay low taxes, to be near family and friends and to avoid crowded, stressful locales.
With Massachusetts' baby boomer incomes higher than many other regions of the nation, the state's boomers likely echoed the thoughts of other boomers when 47 percent of them said they expect to only have enough money to cover basic living expenses or less. The full cost of housing, most families' greatest expense, has simply grown too much for many in too many boom towns. Immigrants who often earn less, have the same housing-cost concerns and have long been unable to afford their own home in booming resort towns where they work, including the Denver area, Lake Tahoe and California markets.
When Yuma, AZ first became the market with the nation's fastest growing home prices -- 35.98 in the second quarter of 2005, according to OFHEO -- investors played a large part in boosting values. By the third quarter, with prices soaring "only" 35.l7 percent, the investors had pulled up stakes, but the other half of the price-boosting equation remained. Emigrating agricultural workers fleeing higher priced housing costs in California and elsewhere in Arizona, continued after Yuma's $200,000 homes -- 1,500- to 1,700-square-foot, three- to four-bedroom houses only a few years old. "The unanticipated rise in immigration levels, coupled with a trend for immigrants to purchase homes sooner upon relocation to the U.S. is continuing to fuel new home demand," the U.S. Homebuilder Survey found.
Likewise, economists credited spill over from California, Nevada and Arizona in early 2005 for boosted Utah's home price appreciation ranking from dead last during the first quarter of 2004 to 35th on OFHEO charts in the first quarter of 2005 as other inland western regions including Idaho and Montana experienced similar sudden growth in home prices.
For better or for worse and for the long or the short term, natural disasters are also playing a role in the market shift. It's not certain how investors moving West from the Florida panhandle into the less expensive coasts of Alabama and Mississippi will fare now after devastating storms, but many cities north, east and west of the Gulf Coast region boomed overnight with both speculators and displaced residents putting down stakes elsewhere. The storms' impact sent a ripple through housing markets previously considered more affordable as the National Multi Housing Council late last year said 11 percent of rental property owners indicated occupancy was up substantially in their markets -- states with communities hammered by the storms. Thirty percent noted apartment occupancy was up "somewhat" after the storms. Published: January 13, 2006
(FIND INFO ABOUT WHAT AREAS MAKE SENSE AND START TO BUILD YOUR TEAM BY ATTENDING OUR OUT OF STATE EXPO ON JAN 28TH.-pr )
Estacada, an isolated community of 2,500 residents, 25 miles southeast of the booming Portland real estate market, is on tap to build 450 homes this year with another 1,000 lots likely to be approved in the next few years.
In West Virginia, home sales soared 21.7 percent in mid year, in part, because home prices in some West Virginian cities were nearly half the national average and that attracted spill over demand from the Washington, D.C. area, one of the nation's hottest housing markets.
For most of 2005, home price appreciation in sleepy Yuma, AZ grew faster than any other city monitored by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's (OFHEO). Farm workers and others moving away from the expensive Southern California and Las Vegas area markets came to cash in on affordable housing.
Old housing market bubbles don't die, they just spill over into adjacent markets. As home prices and sales in many large booming real estate markets flatten, there's growing evidence that much of the housing market boom is alive and well. Only the locations are changing. Baby boomers feathering retirement nests, boomers' kids, migrating immigrants and speculators looking for greater returns on their investments are on the leading edge of what could be a geographical shift in the housing boom.
McGraw-Hill Construction and Deloitte & Touche's USA Homebuilding Survey says a "moderate slowdown in certain regions of the U.S. housing market" appears more likely than a bust because even with recent mortgage interest rate increases, rates remain relatively low, at about half what they were in previous housing booms. Questioning home builders to examine their strategies to make a profit in the coming "slow down" the survey revealed an underlying theme -- communities that don't always make front page real estate news.
Demand from the population of baby boomers -- the leading edge of which reaches the age of 60 this year -- has already shaped the first and second housing markets and are expected to increase the demand for homes in retirement and age-restricted communities. Younger boomers are moving up to larger, pricier homes and they continue to buy second homes as getaways and vacation spots. Their kids, just entering the housing market, will add to the demand.
But with hot housing markets in the popular areas of California, Florida, the Northwest and Northeast persistently deemed over priced, investors are already fleeing and rank and file home buyers are likely to follow. Boston-based think tank the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth found that one third of the state's boomers intend to retire out of state. The study said aging baby boomers are discouraged from staying in the state because they want to live somewhere affordable, to pay low taxes, to be near family and friends and to avoid crowded, stressful locales.
With Massachusetts' baby boomer incomes higher than many other regions of the nation, the state's boomers likely echoed the thoughts of other boomers when 47 percent of them said they expect to only have enough money to cover basic living expenses or less. The full cost of housing, most families' greatest expense, has simply grown too much for many in too many boom towns. Immigrants who often earn less, have the same housing-cost concerns and have long been unable to afford their own home in booming resort towns where they work, including the Denver area, Lake Tahoe and California markets.
When Yuma, AZ first became the market with the nation's fastest growing home prices -- 35.98 in the second quarter of 2005, according to OFHEO -- investors played a large part in boosting values. By the third quarter, with prices soaring "only" 35.l7 percent, the investors had pulled up stakes, but the other half of the price-boosting equation remained. Emigrating agricultural workers fleeing higher priced housing costs in California and elsewhere in Arizona, continued after Yuma's $200,000 homes -- 1,500- to 1,700-square-foot, three- to four-bedroom houses only a few years old. "The unanticipated rise in immigration levels, coupled with a trend for immigrants to purchase homes sooner upon relocation to the U.S. is continuing to fuel new home demand," the U.S. Homebuilder Survey found.
Likewise, economists credited spill over from California, Nevada and Arizona in early 2005 for boosted Utah's home price appreciation ranking from dead last during the first quarter of 2004 to 35th on OFHEO charts in the first quarter of 2005 as other inland western regions including Idaho and Montana experienced similar sudden growth in home prices.
For better or for worse and for the long or the short term, natural disasters are also playing a role in the market shift. It's not certain how investors moving West from the Florida panhandle into the less expensive coasts of Alabama and Mississippi will fare now after devastating storms, but many cities north, east and west of the Gulf Coast region boomed overnight with both speculators and displaced residents putting down stakes elsewhere. The storms' impact sent a ripple through housing markets previously considered more affordable as the National Multi Housing Council late last year said 11 percent of rental property owners indicated occupancy was up substantially in their markets -- states with communities hammered by the storms. Thirty percent noted apartment occupancy was up "somewhat" after the storms. Published: January 13, 2006
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Monday, January 16, 2006
Akron Department of Planning & Urban Development Programs for Improvement ** Click Here
Dollar for Dollar matching for projects such as Gardens, Vacant Lot Cleanup, Neighborhood Safety Projects, etc. Worth taking a look, also other programs with incentives as well.
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Friday, January 13, 2006
What a story - I didn't know this existed! Take a look at the everglades plan
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
LT. GOVERNOR ANNOUNCES $30.6 MILLION IN HOUSING AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP
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Monday, January 09, 2006
Interesting article on Tax Assessment dispute ** via Crain's
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Local Multi-Family Sales Update
18-Unit Apartment Bldg - Cuyahoga Falls - Sold * 12-29-05 - $785,000 // $43,611 pr unit
4-Unit Apartment Bldg - Fairlawn - Sold * 12-03-05 - $252,000 // $63,000 pr unit
18-Units - 3 Buildings - Highland Square - Sold * 09-10-05 - $612,000 // $34,000 pr unit
10-Unit Apartment Building - Sold * Represented Buyer - $ Inquire within // N/a
These are just a few random selections, we have sold others, but I thought this was a nice range of unit mixes.
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Friday, January 06, 2006
Highland Square News - via David Giffels/Beacon Journal
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