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One week until Cincinnati CitiRama!

Mark your calendar for June 3rd- and take some time to visit Northside and Citirama -Rockford Hills.

In April I told you about Citirama in Rockford Hills.  A gorgeous neighborhood surrounded by woods and just a short hop to UC and downtown Cincinnati.  Several of the homes have already sold- good news in today’s real estate market.

Recently I’ve developed a severe case of “ugh” when it comes reading e-zines.

You know the type of magazine that arrives via an email link, takes forever to open and then requires NASA like skills to navigate and enlarge the pages….so you can actually read something.  It’s not that I don’t like electronic toys- my Kindle is easy to use and operate. And I do understand why so many organizations have migrated to e-zines- they’re cost effective and eco-friendly….but sometimes replacing “easy to read” with “something slick” misses the intended target audience.

Technology is a great thing.  I would be the first one to say what a time-savers things like “crackerberries”, “netbooks”, portable this and portable that have changed and helped us in business and everyday life. 

But sometimes the “cool things” gets in the way. 

Lately the exploding real estate trend of using really wide angle lenses for interior photos leads to a lot of buyer griping about – what you see may not be what you get.

Today more and more interior pictures highlighting ginormous rooms. Sellers want their rooms to look spacious- buyers want to see the “real thing”.  This leads to a lot of negative comments and disappointment when potential buyers walk through the front door expecting to see a family room large enough to hold 30 people.  Instead the room is normal size and the buyers are immediately disappointed with reality.  One of my clients suggested a disclaimer may be needed “rooms are much smaller than they appear”.

The availability of affordable digital cameras sporting a variety of lenses has spawned this trend toward use of wide angle photography.  A way for one piece of real estate to look better than the competition. However, both sellers and their Realtors need to remember to “keep it real” so the buying public has an accurate picture of the property.

What do you think?

This week versus last week for metro Cincinnati real estate.

Below is the Market Action Reports for 6 zip-codes in the greater Cincinnati area:
45011

45014

45040

45069

45208

45233

This is the short version of the detailed information available for the zip-codes.

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There are mixed signals from Fairfield and Fairfield T0wnship real estate market.

According to the Multiple Listing Service of Greater Cincinnati real estate activity is shown below:

Data from Greater Cincinnati Multiple Listing Service

Data from Greater Cincinnati Multiple Listing Service

Pricing on single family homes in Fairfield is lower for actives, pendings and solds.  The Township has lower pending prices but higher listing and sold prices.  The condo market in Fairfield has lower prices for active and pendings-however closed prices are inching up.  In Fairfield Township condo prices are up-but pending sale prices are down. 

Either the market will catch up to the realistic pricing or sellers will continue to hold our until a buyer comes along willing to pay a higher price.

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