About Columbus' Polaris Area

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The Polaris area....Columbus Ohio, 43240 or some of the Polaris area is in the 43240 ZIP code anyway. These homes (condominiums and single family homes) are in Delaware County, the Olentangy School District and either the City of Columbus or Orange Township, I believe ... best to check the auditors records on each and every home, if you need to know where a home is legally.

Columbus Ohio 43240 homes for sale - market report

48 homes for sale
16 homes sold in August 2009
6.9 months of inventory based on sales

Average active price $190,000
Average sale price $160,000


There are 2.1% more homes for sale in the ZIP code than a year ago.

That is 32.7% more months of inventory (based on closed Sales) in comparison to August 2008 for the 43240 ZIP code.

Columbus Ohio 43240 homes for sale - neighborhoods

The Lakes at Polaris, Prestwick Commons, Prestwick Green, The Retreat at Polaris, Village at Polaris Green, Village at Polaris Park, Village at Worthington Crossing, Woods at Polaris are just some of the neighborhoods in the 43240 ZIP code. The inventory of homes for sale varies by price range too. The graph shows all homes in the ZIP code, all price ranges.

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Trendgraphix uses single family and condominium sales combined. The graphs are based on data available at the end of August 2009. The graph was created with data from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® and Trendgraphix. Only Real Living HER agents are authorized to use Trendgraphix in Central Ohio.

The Polaris area....Columbus Ohio, 43240 homes for sale or some of the Polaris area is in the 43240 ZIP code anyway. These homes (condominiums and single family homes) are in Delaware County, the Olentangy School District and either the City of Columbus or Orange Township, I believe ... best to check the auditors records on each and every home.

Central Ohio school districts including the Olentangy School Disctrict - Maureen McCabe Real Living HER

There is only 6 moths inventory of homes for sale in comparison to 18.7 months of inventory at the end of July 2008. Look at the inventory of homes for sale in the area at the end of January 2009!

Columbus Ohio, 43240 homes for sale - a market report

42 homes for sale
7 homes sold
6 months of inventory based on sales

Average active price $195,000
Average sale price $157,000


25% less inventory than a year ago.
67.9% less - Months of Inventory (based on closed Sales) in comparison to July 2008

Columbus Ohio 43240 homes for sale - neighborhoods

The Lakes at Polaris, Prestwick Commons, Prestwick Green, The Retreat at Polaris, Village at Polaris Green, Village at Polaris Park, Village at Worthington Crossing, Woods at Polaris are just some of the neighborhoods in the 43240 ZIP code. Inventory varies by price range too. The graph shows all homes in the ZIP code, all price ranges.

Columbus Ohio, 43240 homes for sale July 2009 a market report through June 2009

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Trendgraphix uses single family and condominium sales combined. The graphs are based on data available at the end of July 2009. The graph was created with data from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® and Trendgraphix. Only Real Living HER and their agents are licensed to use Trendgraphix in Central Ohio.

"Busted" by security at Polaris Fashion Place

"Unauthorized scavenger hunts or unauthorized photography"

No I was not conducting a scavenger hunt authorized or unauthorized at Polaris Fashion Place Mall. I was taking photos. The very polite security manager said no one can take photos for security reasons. To paraphrase, his next remark... they can't just restrict the terrorist from taking photos, therefor they must restrict everyone from taking photos.

I did not see it posted anywhere at Polaris (I was outside in the Lifestyle Center not in the enclosed mall) but I do find it online after being told.

I was taking photos of the fountain, a restaurant that is opening soon, a sculpture.... Boy I have lots of previously taken pictures to delete... a sculpture in the banner of my ActiveRain blog needs the far left obliterated.

I decided the pictures are there, they have been there. They are NOW pixelated, except the banner.

Polaris Fashion Place was the Columbus mall that was targeted by terrorists... or that's the way I remember it. Seems others remember it as Easton or Tuttle....

Even before that ... The Polaris Fashion Place Mall which opened in October 2001 was linked to terror. A Columbus Business First article quoted the Manager of the Kaufman's store that we did not have to succumb to terror... shop! How a $10 bar of soap strikes a blow to terror by Dan Crawford and Kathy Showalter of Business First-Columbus | September 28, 2001 |

"The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the United States' subsequent march toward a war on global terrorism haven't stymied retailers' plans to be ready for the opening of the 1.5 million-square-foot Polaris Fashion Place on Oct. 25."

The manager of the Kaufman's Department Store at Polaris Fashion Place when it opened in 2001 is quoted in the Columbus Business First article. Kaufman's is gone, in it's place the Lifestyle Center on the southeast corner, where I was told I could not take photographs. The department store manager is quoted:

"The more we can keep our life normal, the better we are," said Pedicini. "We have deadlines to meet. As much as possible, we're meeting those to get ready to open."

The $10 bar of soap is a reference to another store that was in Polaris Fashion Place mall in 2001 when it opened. Luxury soap would save us from terrorism.

Normal.

I've pixelated previous Polaris Fashion Place post's pictures for their protection:

Polaris makes the Wall Street Journal

Polaris let's do lunch Friday

Polaris Lifestyle Center

What's New at Polaris

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Maureen McCabe Real Living HER Worthington

The Columbus Ohio, 43240 homes for sale are properties in the Polaris area... or some of the Polaris area is in the 43240 ZIP code. These homes (condominiums and single family homes) are in Delaware County, the Olentangy School District and either the City of Columbus or Orange Township, I believe ... best to check the auditors records on each and every home.

There is 9.8 months worth of inventory on the market in Columbus Ohio 43240. That's a buyer's market. Compare that to 5.2 months of inventory based on sales a year ago. Inventory increased since the end of May 2009. Inventory of homes for sale in the Polaris area is way down from November 2008 when there was nearly 48 months of inventory available to home buyers looking for a home in the area.

Columbus Ohio 43240 homes for sale - market report

49 homes for sale
5 homes sold in June 2009
9.8 month of inventory based on sales

Average list price $190,000
Average sale price $150,000

88.5% more inventory than a year ago

Columbus Ohio 43240 homes for sale - neighborhoods

Neighborhoods in the 43240 ZIP code include The Lakes at Polaris, Traditions at Walker Park, Prestwick Commons, Prestwick Green, The Retreat at Polaris,Village at Polaris Green, Village at Polaris Park, Village at Worthington Crossing, Woods at Polaris.

Inventory varies by price range too. The graph shows all homes in the ZIP code, all price ranges

Search Columbus Ohio 43240 homes for sale

Trendgraphix uses single family and condominium sales combined. The graphs are based on data available at the end of June 2009. The graph was created with data from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® and Trendgraphix. Only Real Living HER and their agents are licensed to use Trendgraphix in Central Ohio.

Columbus OH 43240 who lives there? 

43240 is in the Far North part of the City of Columbus...  The ZIP code  is the Polaris area... if you live in the 43240 ZIP code how well do you fit in? 

Are you more educated, younger, richer and thinner than your neighbors?  Don't worry "skinny or fat" is not in this data yet...

Moving to the Polaris area

How will you fit in? I am not sure that you really need to be like your neighbors to fit in but here is a "widget" from Zip Skinny about the Columbus OH 43240 ZIP Code.  Age, Education, Marital Status, Occupation.  The first column is the 43240 ZIP code, the second is Ohio and the last is the US:

Zip Skinny uses US Census data to create the widget representing data about the area.  I thought I had done more widgets for other ZIP codes but if I did I must have posted them elsewhere.  I can't find other Columbus ZIP code blog posts here.... except... Here is a blog post about  the 43085 ZIP code... Worthington is the 43085 ZIP code but so is a portion of the Far North area of Columbus. I used a more compact widget... but decideed to do a skinny tower widget for Columbus OH 43240.

Want to look at or compare another Central Ohio ZIP code - Zip Skinny.

More about the Columbus OH 43240 ZIP code:

Far North Columbus - Identity Crisis -too many ZIP codes

Polaris area the Dog Days of Summer

Polaris Area - Columbus Ohio 43240  there's another ZIP skinny there... I knew I had done more... did not remember I had done the Columbus OH 43240 ZIP code before but it is not as skinny as this one either.