Delaware Real Estate

This Week in Real Estate: January 21-27 If last week’s real estate numbers in Delaware County were a lamb, then this week is … well … lambchop? Only 63 property’s transferred in Delaware County last — the lowest in the 12 weeks we’ve been tracking here at DelawareOHRealEstate.com — exactly one-half of the units that [...]

All the prognosticators have 2013 as the “Year of Real Estate” however in Delaware County Ohio it appears to be coming in like a lamb. There were 126 property transfers in Delaware County from January 14 – 20 with a transferred volume of only $12,941,843 or at least 11-week low of $102,713 per transfer. The [...]

Delaware County’s first Menards is taking shape along U.S. 23 in Orange Township. Menards is expected to open the 175,000 square foot store in mid-2013 according to initial reports from ThisWeek News. The location is expected to hire 150-160 full-time employees when it opens. This was the second go around for Menards, after it was [...]

Shaming the public into achieving a common good is nothing new, our government has been doing it for years … and we take it for granted. However, the city of Columbus has been using this methodology to attack slumlords and the Dispatch reviewed it in a recent article “Is city’s ‘list of shame’ working?” by [...]

Twas’ the week before Christmas and the real estate market barely slowed down in Delaware County, Ohio, according to statistics released by the county on Monday, December 24. Across Delaware County, 147 units were recorded for a recorded $25,887,531 on a reported tax value of $33,446,700. It was a very unique week in that only 45 percent [...]

Home sales activity throughout Ohio increased 23.6 percent in November, helping the marketplace record its 17th consecutive monthly sales gain, according to the statistics provided by the state’s Multiple Listing Services and released by the Ohio Association of REALTORS this morning (view the complete PDF release). Sales of new and existing homes have posted a [...]

More than $43 million in real estate transfers were processed in Delaware County (Ohio) last week, putting the first full week in December more than $23 million ahead of the previous week. It was a huge week for real estate transactions in Delaware County as the County was well above its four-week average for: Number [...]

Olentangy Local Schools consistently receives an Excellent With Distinction honors from the Ohio Department of Education and has been an instrumental reason behind the rapid growth of Delaware County. However, that rapid expansion has also led to rapid price increases so sometimes a short sale or foreclosure may allow you to get into Olentangy School [...]

The Delaware General Health District’s food protection and public safety team is offering a cooking seminar on how to keep yourself and family members safe when you are cooking this holiday season. The sessions are Thursday, November 8, and Thursday, November 15, both from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. at the Delaware County District Library’s Orange [...]

The annual Blessing of the Animals will take place on Sunday, August 19, at 12:15 p.m. at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in historic downtown Delaware, Ohio. Pets will receive a blessing and a collar that reads, “I have been blessed.” For safety reasons, please keep pets inside a carrier or leashed at all times. Water [...]