Worthington Ghost Tours: The Tale of Dr. Morrow
A video starring Stefan Langer, the webmaster at Worthington Libraries as Dr. Thomas Morrow.
Grave robbers, angry mobs of citizens, a missing body from an insane asylum? I don’t believe I had ever heard of the the story of Dr. Thomas Morrow and the Worthington Medical College’s demise. The Worthington Library has a series of videos of Worthington ghost stories that they produced last fall.
For January 2008…. home sales in some* Central Ohio school districts.
Many real estate agents around the country talk about “absorption rate.” It is the same thing as how many months of inventory there is on a TrendGraphix market report (posted to Discover Columbus monthly.)
Six months of inventory is a normal, less than six months is a sellers market, more than six months is a buyers market. Most of Central Ohio is a buyers market.
Absorption rate is the number of months it will take for the market to absorb the inventory on hand at the current rate of sales. Some agents do absorption rate by weeks… months works for Central Ohio.
January 2008 Absorption Rate by Schools
Big Walnut - absorption rate 32.25 months
Active - 129 Properties Found
Sold - 4 Properties Found
Average sale price $278,225
Buckeye Valley absorption rate 20.2 months
Active - 121 Properties Found
Sold - 6 Properties Found
Average sale price $266,500
Columbus absorption rate 14.1 months
Active -3465 Properties Found
Sold - 245 Properties Found
Average sale price $96,810
Dublin absorption rate 16.6 months
Active - 365 Properties Found
Sold - 22 Properties Found
Average sale price $354,056
Gahanna Jefferson absorption rate 16.6 months
Active - 300 Properties Found
Sold - 18 Properties Found
Average sale price $245,630
Grandview absorption rate 4 months
Active - 16 Properties Found
Sold - 4 Properties Found
Average sale price $281,000
Hilliard absorption rate 11.5 months
Active - 448 Properties Found
Sold - 39 Properties Found
Average sale price $202,361
Olentangy absorption rate 18.7 months
Active - 749 Properties Found
Sold - 40 Properties Found
Average sale price $327,440
Plain Local ( New Albany) absorption rate 18.1 months
Active - 254 Properties Found
Sold - 14 Properties Found
Average sale $373,605
Upper Arlington absorption rate 11.5 months
Active - 195 Properties Found
Sold - 17 Properties Found
Average sale $308,205
Westerville absorption rate 9.8 months
Active - 518 Properties Found
Sold - 53 Properties Found
Average sale $201,306
Worthington absorption rate 7.7 months
Active - 223 Properties Found
Sold - 29 Properties Found
Average sale $241,929
Sales by County (all school districts)
Delaware absorption rate 17.3 months
Active - 1523 Properties Found
Sold - 88 Properties Found
Average sale $283,511
Franklin absorption rate 13.2 months
Active - 7329 Properties Found
Sold - 554 Properties Found
Average sale $158,072
All over Central Ohio (all school districts, all counties) absorption rate 14.5 months
Active - 13181 Properties Found
Sold - 912 Properties Found
Average sale $160,716
Range to $3,500 to $2,750,000
One problem with TrendGraphix (used to create market reports on Discover Columbus) is it pulls the data by MLS area. Some MLS areas make sense, for example Worthington, the area it pulls is just the city of Worthington and the village of Riverlea. The problem is there are a lot of Worthington area homes, in the Worthington School District that are in the City of Columbus or Perry or Sharon Townships. With TrendGraphix there is no way to search and pull up graphs by school district.
Above is strictly properties listed in the Columbus Board of Realtors as single family homes.
Many but not all people look for a particular school district because it meets their families needs or they currently live in the district and just need a bigger home. What school districts are above*? Mainly those in the area of the north outer-belt… where I work. I work out of the Worthington area. City of Columbus school district, I work in the Clintonville area, the northeast and northwest parts of that school district. The Columbus numbers reflect the entire school district not just the north side.
Average Prices
Average prices don’t tell the whole story either, for example the prices for homes sold in the Buckeye Vally School range from $114,000 to $420,000. The price range of homes sold in the Columbus School District in January 2008 goes up to a $625,000 sold price.
Happy Groundhog Day Columbus! Let’s hope our official Ohio groundhog, Buckeye Chuck in Marion does not see his shadow and we get an early spring in 2008.
This is an eCard from Real Living.
When you think of leaving Central Ohio and moving somewhere warmer… or maybe sunnier… where do you think of? Florida? Arizona? Are the Carolinas warm enough for you? Someplace else? If you were relocating out of Ohio to someplace warmer where would it be.
It’s a poll! It’s anonymous… I can’t see who has left any responses.
ColumbusBestBlog.com had it’s first out of town guest blogger, Jim Hirschhorn from Orlando Florida the other day.
My asking people in Florida to guest blog was inspired by Phoenix AZ real estate blogger Jonathan Dalton who is making the rounds in Canada… Jonathan’s guest blogged in exotic spots like Saskatoon, Vancouver and Alberta (western Canada is exotic to me… well maybe exotic is not the word. It seems Canadians are finding Arizona appealing in many ways just now.
