Ohio Real Estate Blog

Covers real estate matters such as recent cases and statutes, drafting tips, current real estate news and upcoming continuing education on real estate matters.

Author: Connie S. Carr and Stephen D. Richman are senior counsel at Kohrman Jackson & Krantz in Cleveland.

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Recent Posts from Ohio Real Estate Blog

Lease Negotiations in a Down Market!
In many areas around the country, the commercial property market is at its highest vacancy rate in years. What does this mean to brokers, tenants and owners of commercial real estate?For brokers, this means it…
CLE Update: Eminent Domain Seminars
The Americal Law Institutie American Bar Association is presenting 2 seminars in the eminent domain area of law. For the experienced practitioner, "Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation." For the practioner that is new to…
CLE Update: Green Technolocy Law
The Practicing Law Institute is presenting a seminar titled "Green Technolocy Law and Business 2009: Strategies for Finance, Carbon Trading, IT and Carbon Neutral Policies" to be held in New York City on February 6,…
End May Be In Sight for Depressed Investment Sales Market
According to brokerage firm Grubb & Ellis, as more commercial real estate loans expire in 2009 and property fundamentals deteriorate, the volume of asset sales is expected to increase, particularly during the second half of…
Trouble Building in Hotel Construction
In the online edition of the National Real Estate Investor an article was published on November 11th by Matt Hudgins regarding the trouble building in hotel constuction. According to Mr. Hudgins, developers are building more…
Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Announced Plans for Mortgage Loan Modifications
At a press conference held today at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, temporary conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a plan was announced to speed up the modification of hundreds of thousands of loans…
Forest City Announces Completion of $167 Million in Financing Transactions
Forest City Enterprises, Inc., based in Cleveland, Ohio, announced today the following three separate, recently completed financing transactions, totaling in the aggregate, more than $167 million:• A $75 million construction loan closed November 7th for…
Before You Can Evict (a Tenant) Your Notice Must Be Legit
Most landlords with a right to evict a tenant by judicial means know the requirements of Section 1923.04(A) of the Ohio Revised Code calling for what has been commonly known as a “Statutory Three-Day Notice”.…
CLE Update: Upcoming Title Seminars
National Business Institute is sponsoring 2 seminars on title-related issues in the coming months. The first is "Resolving Real Estate Title Defects," being held on December 16, 2008 at the Holiday Inn Independence, 6001 Rockside…
Haunted Real Estate
Given the fact that today is Halloween, I thought we would touch on the subject of haunted houses. Selling a house that is haunted in some states can raise a disclosure issue. Buyers of homes…