Svetlana Stolyarova: 877-770-5551

December is one of my favorite months of the year. No matter how bad may Lake Erie affect the weather in Greater Cleveland, Holiday spirit prevails.

December is important for Real estate professionals as we finalize our business plans and work hard on our tuning marketing and sales strategies for the next year.

2008 was definitely the year of Web.2.0. marketing. Many smart REALTORs utilize  power of blogging, social media, Search Engine Optimization for promortion of our services and listings.

Dear Sellers of Real Estate in Greater Cleveland! Please make sure that your agents use as many avenues for exposure of your house information on the Internet as possible! Buyers today not only start house hunting on the Internet, they do a lot of research, evaluate the house values and trends,look for the community information, etc., etc. Why don’t your REALTORs be the first to provide this info to potential buyers. Why don’t your agents expose your house and its features and benefits to potential buyers everywhere?

Here is the extract from my listing marketing strategies for 2009:

• Keep Showcasing my listings at Realtor.com
• Create web sites for each of my listings
• Keep working on Search Enging Optimization of www.Local-n-Global.com
• Create mini-sites for all my listings
• Create VFlyers for all my listings
• Create and submit to YouTube video for each of my listings
• Keep blogging at my Localism blog
• Keep posting community info at this blog
• Keep submitting info about my listings to Craigslist, Zillow, Trulia, Backpage, OOdle, Facebook, Linkedin, Digg, etc.
• More, and more, and more…

Will my sellrs benefit from this activity? Sure they will as the do now.

• Potential buyers will not miss your home
• Inquiries from potential buyers increase with every post
• Buyers feel more welcome to see the house and to make an offer
• House sells!

Dear sellers of houses in Solon, Pepper Pike, Twinsburg, Mayfield, Lyndhurst and other neighborhoods of Greater Cleveland!

If you really need to sell your property, please demand active and aggressive marketing of your property on Web! Responsible professional REALTORs have all necessary tools today to promote your house and to find the perfect buyer for your property.

Good luck!

Need to Sell or Buy in Greater Cleveland?

Please e-mail Realty@Local-n-Global.com or just call directly  Svetlana Stolyarova, broker of Local-n-Global Realty: 216-548-4663. Our 24/7 Real Estate Information Hotline number is    

 877-770-5551.

Look at the condominium market in Richmond Heights: all these nice looking, well maintained, nicely updated condos are offered today in October of 2008 for the price of 1999.

Isn’t it an advantage for the buyers to utilize the amazing spin of Real Estate Time Machine and get into a very pleasant place to live?

Just compare:

Year 1999.

• President - Bill Clinton.
• Gas price - avg. $.99/ gallon.
• 3 beds 2 1/2 baths condo in Richmond Place - sold for $110,000; $118,000; $124,600; $128,500; $126,000.

Year 2008. 

• President - still George W Bush
• Gas price - avg. $3.29 / gallon
• 3 beds 2 1/2 baths condo in Richmond Place - offered for $125,000!

Feel the difference? Gas prices are higher, new President is coming soon, 3 beds 2/12 baths condo is much better updated, yet offered for the same price of $125,000. Updates include but not limited to:

newer windows, hot water tank, flooring, vanities in all bathrooms, freshly painted, furnace updated, kitchen appliances replaced and stay.

Please call Svetlana Stolyarova 216-548-4663 or use our 24/7 Hotline 877-770-5551 ext.133 to see this property.  

Don’t wait for Real Estate Time Machine to spin back to 2003 or 2005! Buy today!

People who used to live in apartments have so many excuses for not buying their own place. Sometimes I agree with them. Sometimes I even support their decision. However, it comes the day when you realize how much was paid for the other person’s property within last 15 years - and nothing was saved for your own. 

For those who like the community spirit of apartment-like living, here is a very good alternative to renting - you may buy your own condo in Golden Gate Villas of Mayfield Heights. Local-n-Global Realty presents a very well prepared, updated, beautifully decorated two bedrooms, one and a half totally redone bathrooms unit located on the second floor of the building next to the swimming pool.

This unit has one car garage, extra storage on the floor. Maintenance fee includes gas, heat, water, sewer, common property maintenance, swimming pool, landscaping, snow removal. You may call any time for more info 877-770-5551 x 129.

Why wait?

Call Svetlana today to schedule your private tour : 216-548-4663.

Need to sell or buy in Greater Cleveland? Call 216-548-4663 or e-mail us: Realty@Local-n-Global.com.

Check out our featured listings.

You may be interested in Mayfield Heights condominium sales statistics.

Condominiums became a hot topic again. Hot in a wrong way. First of all, here in Greater Cleveland it’s never been a huge demand for condos. We always had a small but stable pool of buyers who wanted all the advantages of condominium maintenance-free lifestyle. We discussed it recently in my Active Rain blog.

Last two years became much worse for condominium owners who needed to sell their place. Statistics is very sad for Greater Cleveland condominium sales. According to Realist.com there is a big decline in condo sales in 2008 even in comparison with a bad 2007.

What should people who own the condo and need to sell it now do? Is there any way to sell the condo quickly and for a reasonable price?

First of all, don’t panic. Make your own investigation and hire the professional who is known as the best marketer in your area. Extensive, targeted, aggressive marketing performed by a qualified professional is the only way to sell your condo today.

Sale by price only is a bad idea. Today when the honest, responsible owners compete with the banks who massively dump the prices on their repossessed properties, price itself does not make a deal. Only combination of reasonable pricing with very well planned marketing sells the condos today.

I know what I am talking about: it took a lot of efforts and investment from both me and my clients to sell the first and the only within last 24 months unit in The Preserves of Willoughby . Our 55 points marketing plan included a very thorough analysis of the potential buyers’ profile. Targeting the right audience meant web presence everywhere - from the single property web site www.6Preserve.com to Realtor.com, Zillow, Trulia, Craiglist, blog platforms, Homes.com, local sites and international destinations. Our marketing included the Open Houses with all traditional preparation like neighbors’ notification, newspaper Ad, professional nerworking, etc. It included the outstanding job of our buyer’s specialists.

I can tell you the truth: only multi-channel marketing works today. You may decide on giving away your place for nothing to a total stranger, and it still may take time to get rid of your property. You may decide on getting a better price from the person who will enjoy living in your condo, and in this case you really need a right professional who will deliver this result to you pretty quickly.

Need to sell your condo or home in Solon, Mayfield, Gates Mills, Lyndhurst, Willoughby or other suburbs af Greater Clebeland? Make the right choice - contact Svetlana Stolyarova from Local-n-Global Realty via e-mail Realty@Local-n-Global.com or by phone 216-548-4663.

Local-n-Global Real Estate Hotline 877-770-5551 is available 24/7. 

I love Greater Cleveland and I am happy to greet everyone who is moving to our great communities. It’s always confusing to pick up the right one even when you live in the vicinity and can drive around before making the final decision. It’s much harder when you are too far away from the place where you suppose to move to.

Isn’t it great that we have so many on-line open sources of all kinds of information about the neighborhoods? I think that the one offered by Local-n-Global Realty is real helpful. Please check out this new great tool - I am sure you will be pleased by convenience and accessibility of valuable information provided via our Community Reports.
Please feel free to contact our Local-n-Global Real Estate experts by phone 216-548-4663 or via e-mail: Realty@Local-n-Global.com.

We love our communities!

You can find great local Mayfield Heights, Ohio real estate information on Localism.com Svetlana Stolyarova,Local-n-Global Realty, Broker is a proud member of the ActiveRain Real Estate Network, a free online community to help real estate professionals grow their business.

Despite all the troubles of today’s critical market, people still get married, families grow, kids go to college, people get new jobs. All these changes usually mean sale or purchase of a house. New sellers-to-be look around the neighborhoods and see the scary signs of buyer’s market: large inventory of homes for sale, lower prices, tons of “short sales” and many new, but not good  ”neighbors” - banks and “asset management” companies who can not take care of their assets but can and do drop the prices ruthlessly competing with respectable, diligent private sellers.

We in Local-n-Global Realty compiled the special report “Seller’s Guide to Buyer’s Market” which we offer to your attention.

Read this doc on Scribd: Seller’s Guide to Buyer’s market

Please call us 877-770-5551 with any questions regarding Greater Cleveland Real Estate. If you need to sell your house, please do the right things:

1) Refer to Seller’s Guide to Buyer’s Market report.

2) Check out Market condition report

3) Call Local-n-Global marketing specialist 877-770-5551 to receive professional consultation on market condition in your neighborhood, to assess your seller’s needs and strength.

4) List your house with Local-n-Global listing specialist

5) Sell it!

Good luck to all the sellers and the buyers.

Dear thinking-about-selling-the-home neighbors!

It’s never the time to sell the houses easily and without any worries and stresses.  It’s may be one of the toughest time now to start even thinking about making this move. Market is slow. Media keeps telling us the stories about housing crisis and recession. Mortgage troubles make the situation even worse. Real estate people are going out of business. We see more and more “For sale by owner” signs on our streets. So what? Keep your life on hold and wait until things turn better? Or maybe even worse?

Should we sell now or not?

My expert opinion is: sell ONLY if you really need it. You are the masters of your lives. You decide do you need to move up to a better neighborhood and enjoy a better school environment for your children. Do you need to slow down house spending and avoid the pitfall of paying-more-than-you-can-afford. Do you need to stay closer to your relatives? These are all NEEDS.

Attempt to “try the market” is not the need. If you are “just looking how much your house will sell for”, please do not bother to  put the sign on your front lawn. Please do not create unnecessary competition to those who really need to sell. Please enjoy your life without pre-mature “For sale” sign.

And - if you really willing to sell, please plan right and make a right choice. We in Local-n-Global Realty created a little presentation for the sellers to help you understand what you should look for when deciding about selling your home. It was published at my Active Rain blog. Please look at it here.

Good luck with all your plans! Happy Valentine Day!

Svetlana Stolyarova, Local-n-Global Realty,

Broker, licensed in State of Ohio

E-mail me: Realty@Local-n-Global.com

24/7 Local-n-Global Real Estate Hotline 877-770-5551

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Cleveland rocks! February calendar of events is so extensive that we in Local-n-Global Realty were kind of confused over which one of them to include in our Local-n-Global February Greater Cleveland Community Calendar. Please enjoy living in Cleveland!

Greater Cleveland offers many wonderful homes for sale. Prices are reasonable, interest rate is low. If you really need a home, please do not miss the opportunity. It’s a very good time to buy. Call us 216-548-4663 and get your Greater Cleveland Real estate Consultant assisting you.

Good luck and enjoy terrific February in Cleveland!

We are fortunate to have a pretty balances housing market in Greater Cleveland, OH. Balanced market means a constant meeting of minds of relatively reasonable sellers and relatively reasonable buyers combined with sufficient supply of money and strong professionalism of Real Estate consultants advising their buying and selling clients.

We still have great professionals among our fellow Realtors who diligently serve their clients despite all the troubles and rumors about housing crisis and death of the profession itself. Indeed, only the best survive and prosper on today’s market, so if you need a good Realtor to help you sell or buy the house, please choose the one who is active and successful TODAY, not two or three years ago.

Mortgage crisis of 2007 created situation of insufficiency in money supply. 2008 may be even worse as not only sub-prime or A- borrowers will be affected, but also good and even perfect borrowers will partially lose availability of mortgage financing because almost all the Greater Cleveland neighborhoods belong to “declining market” according to new Fannie May rules. All Cuyahoga County, Geauga, Portage Counties are declared declining market. Sad, especially considering that Real estate market is strictly local. How can they seriously compare markets in Cleveland and Solon or Mayfield Heights?

Speaking of reasonability of buyers and sellers: let’s compare the sales data for three cities - Mayfield Heights, Solon and Twinsburg. All three are on the East Side of Greater Cleveland. All have excellent school systems. All of them are great places to live and raise kids. All three have strong housing demand and good inventory of houses for sale. Let’s see what today’s sellers expect to sell their houses for:

Mayfield Heights - 171 house for sale; Average asking price $181,315

 In 2007 207 houses were sold for average price of $153,387. Sellers historically get 95-96 % of the last asking price (after all price reductions) in Mayfield Heights.

Solon                    201 house for sale; Average asking price $395,654

In 2007 245 houses were sold for average price of $368,829. Sellers get 95 % of the last asking price.

Twinsburg             124 houses for sale; Average asking price $242,612.

In 2007 251 houses were sold for average price of $225,527. Sellers get 97 % of the last asking price.

So, you - buyers -  decide: who is a champion in reasonability among the home sellers

Mayfield Heights sellers expect to get about $172,250 vs. $153,387 avg. sold price in 2007  

Solon sellers expect to receive about $375,870 vs. $368,829 avg. sold price in 2007

Twinsburg sellers expect to receive about $235,330 vs. $225,527 avg. sold price in 2007. 

Let’s see what happens in three month.

Good luck to all sellers and buyers! Let’s keep it real!

Svetlana Stolyarova, founder and broker of Local-n-Global Realty

Buyers and sellers in Mayfield Heights, Solon and Twinsburg! Need an expert on your side?

Call anytime 877-770-5551 or e-mail Realty@Local-n-Global.com