About Akron's Portage Lakes

When it comes to entertainment the Portage Lakes Ohio offers many venues to kick back and relax!

You can dine on the dock at the Harbor Inn at Portage Lakes! The food

is great and the servers are friendly! Try the pomegranate sangria!

The colorful outdoor bar at the Harbor Inn at Portage Lakes is a favored

meeting place for the locals. When it is really hot the palm trees have

misters to keep you cool! When it is raining you are covered and can

still enjoy Portage Lakes own Key West! The bar tenders are friendly!

The restored art deco building of Hook Line & Drinkers in Portage Lakes

is know for its weekend entertainment. They offer some of the best

bands from the area....Highway 61 band really rocked the house last

Saturday night and there is more in store this Saturday from Motherload!

The outdoor bar at the water's edge at Hook Line & Drinkers in

Portage Lakes offers friendly service and there is always a cornhole

game going on during the weekend! Oh and did I mention that the

food is good too!

There is so much to do in Portage Lakes Ohio you will never get

bored! Check out the Portage Princess with its lake cruises for one

or large groups! The Upper Deck offers entertainment on the weekend

also. Clubb Maxx in the lower level of Deitz's has local entertainment

too! Deitz's Dusty's 2 rents pontoon boats for an afternoon or a day

for your own self guided tour of the "main chain" in Portage Lakes.

Come for a day and stay for a "lifestyle"

If you are looking for a home in Portage Lakes Ohio please give me

a jingle...........Caren Wallace..........Stouffer Realty.......330-697-3227

Portage Lakes Ohio homes and neighborhoods are pretty much the only area that a family can buy a home on or near the water in Akron Ohio. It's a gorgeous and fun place to raise a family, as you can imagine living near a large lake with many other smaller connecting lakes and channels to boat the summer away and skate or snowmobile in the winter. Tie that in with many updated, great lakeside places to eat and drink, you have a very nice, laid back quality of life.

The Portage Lakes Ohio homes are so varied, it boggles the imagination. You can buy a "cabin type" for under $75,000, a condo on a lake for $100,000, a family home on the lake for $250,000 or a mansion on the lake for over $1 million! How's that for diversity?

You would think that you would need a fairly nice income to live in a beautiful Portage Lakes Ohio home, but you would be wrong. Look at these numbers!!

Estimated median household income in 2007: $48,893 (it was $43,698 in 2000)

Estimated per capita income in 2007: $25,650

Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $140,801 (it was $104,800 in 2000)

Mean prices in 2007: All housing units: $170,695; Detached houses: $168,639; Townhouses or other attached units: $249,235; In 2-unit structures: $147,009; In 3-to-4-unit structures: $277,642; In 5-or-more-unit structures: $96,159; Mobile homes: $85,000

So, you can see for yourself that a beautiful Portage Lakes Ohio homes living is very attainable and very possible!

Trust me, I am your local Portage Lakes Ohio Realtor!

David M. Childress

Our Portage Lakes, Ohio June/July market report shows 8 pendings and 6 sales of lakefront or lake access properties.

We have 62 lakefront or lake access homes for sale around Portage Lakes, Ohio.

The homes for sale now range from $74,900 to $1,395.000.

The 8 pending homes range from $69,000 to $595,000.

The 6 sold properties range from $39,500 to $625,000.

The average price per square foot is $137.94.

The average sqaure footage of a home here is 2,473.

The average days on the market is 145 days.

The average sale price is $278,290.

The average sale price percent of list price is 88.3%

Portage Lakes, Ohio has very diverse selection of homes on the market, with something affordable for anyone!

First time buyers who would like to take advantage of the $8000 tax credit before Nov. 30th can

still buy a lakefront and create a new "Lake's Lifestyle"!!

Other buyers who just want to experience the "Lake's Lifestyle" in Portage Lakes, Ohio can find some great homes to

choose from.

Call Caren Wallace at Stouffer Realty for your list of Portage Lakes, Ohio lake homes at 330-697-3227

Feeding the purple martins on Long Lake in Portage Lakes Ohio is a curious event!

You scramble up some eggs, take a plastic spoon, and flip the eggs into the air so

that the birds can swoop in and catch them! It is awesome to watch! The birds

swarm the area to get their share of the eggs! The white gourd like orbs on the

pole are the bird houses for the purple martins! We encourage them to stay

because they are known for feeding on mosquitoes and that keeps the pesky

insects away! We love our purple martins!

One of the many boats in the boat parade, this was especially colorful!

I loved this big yellow bus.....The School of Rock & Roll Academy!

Yes the full moon was out and in the fireworks too! It was really neat!

Everyone agreed that it was the best fireworks ever at Portage Lakes OHIO!!