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Columbus Ohio 43240 homes for sale brought to you by Maureen McCabe

This graph is only single family homes in the Columbus Ohio 43240 ZIP code, part of the Far Northwest Columbus Area... really far north, the Polaris area! This is December 2009. Yes January is over and I can tell you how many single family homes sold in the area (or how many have been reported... there is a lag time) but I can not make a graph of it yet. Maybe in a day or two. Possibley not until beginning of next week. Trendgraphix has been speedier in the last few months. I believe December results were available on January 10, 2010.

No sales in this month refers to January and April 2009.

The graph is just homes listed as single family homes. If you look at residential properties there is 13 months supply. Residential is single family and condominiums combined. If you look at properties in Columbus Ohio 43235 that are listed as condos there was/ is? 35 months supply based on December 2009 condo sales in the ZIP code.

Single family homes 1.5 months of inventory is a sellers market... 35 months supply would be considered a buyers market.

Columbus Ohio 43240 homes for sale - a market report

Homes for sale - 3
Homes sold in December 2009 - 2

Months of inventory based on current sales - 1.5

40& less homes for sale than a year ago
70% less months of inventory (based on closed Sales) in comparison to November 2008

Average list price $172,000
Average sale price $163,000

Columbus Ohio 43240 homes for sale - neighborhoods

Single family homes in Columbus Ohio 43240 for sale and sold in December 2009 were in the Village at Polaris Green and Prestwick Green.... now officially Village at Polaris Green are condominiums, free standing condos but all around time these are listed as single family homes, just to confuse everyone.

Columbus Ohio 43240 homes for sale - Search

Columbus Ohio 43240 home sales

December 2009 +100%

Average sale price $163,000

Median price $164,000

Data published January 2010 based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of December 2009. I just got around to doing the market report for the 43240 ZIP code in February 2010. TrendGraphix reports presented are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors. According to Trendgraphix neither CBR nor their MLS (multiple listing service ) guarantee or are in anyway responsible for its accuracy. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed." Same goes for me! Only Real Living HER agents are authorized to use Trendgraphix in Central Ohio for real estate market news updates.

We eat at the Polaris, Smokey Bones a lot. Officially the name of the Polaris area restaurant is Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill.

Smokey Bones has great coupons... In the Columbus Dispatch... Sunday Dispatch I assume. What does a Sunday Dispatch cost? Isn't a "Buy One Entree, Get One Free" coupon worth the cost of a Sunday Columbus Dispatch?

I did not really know where the Smokey Bones coupons come from... but we always seem to have one. The Columbus Dispatch, The Bag, the mailbox, direct from some barbecue heaven ??? Dino the manager of the Polaris Smokey Bones said the Smokey Bones coupons are in the Columbus Dispatch. I'll believe him.

I don't know when we started going to the Smokey Bones at Polaris. It is a chain* and it is not the only barbecue place in the Polaris area. Smokey Bones might not even officially be my favorite barbecue restaurant in the Polaris area but it is the barbecue restaurant we go to the most often because those coupons keep on coming.

Smokey Bones at Polaris was our first choice last Saturday night. Their parking lot was jammed so we went to our second choice, Claddagh. Bad decision. We should have just waited for a table at Smokey Bones. I wrote a post about dinner Saturday night at Claddagh. Our waitress Jessie was great, the rest of the experience... not so great.

Recently I won a free happy hour at Smokey Bones for my office. We went Thursday... It was a real small group from Real Living HER Worthington. I won the Free happy hour by putting a business card in a box in their lobby. A FREE happy hour is free appetizers. We bought our drinks!

Stimulating the local economy...

1. Buy a Columbus Dispatch

2. Pray for a Smokey Bones coupon

3. Visit Smokey Bones at Polaris (Polaris Town Center - south side of Polaris Parkway... it looks like it is built of Lincoln Logs)

4. Remember to put your business card in, in the box in the lobby for a drawing...

5. Tell 'em Maureen sent you

* Not being a food blogger I have the freedom to eat at chain restaurants and blog about it. Yes we use coupons... week one and week two are gone in the photo. They were buy one entree, get one free. Mm mm good! We missed using the buy one entree get one free coupon that expired on 1-17-2010. Now that I've tasted their appetizers it could be harder to ignore those appetizer coupons.

Thanks to Dino, Rob (or Robb?), Erin and Smokey Bones at Polaris.

I don't like the Smokey Bones website but here's a link. Odd noises, slow loading flash, the Smokey Bones website tried to tell me Easton was the closest Smokey Bones to the 43085 ZIP code.... WRONG!

This or something very similar was first published on ColumbusBestBlog.com , another blog I write.

Claddagh Irish Pub is at Polaris in Southern Delaware County.

Despite my name and heritage... I am not a big "Irish" food fan.  What can I say? I like Mexican and Indian food...  Don't get me wrong.  I love corned beef and cabbage. I love salmon.  I love potatoes.   I love Irish whiskey... I have never really enjoyed any of the Columbus "Irish" restaurants.  I have NOT been to Ireland though either.

I love the look of Claddagh Irish Pub.  If I was a big drinker it looks like a lively bar.   Claddagh Irish Pub says of  itself "We present an authentic “pub house” experience to our guests based on the “craic” of Ireland – a fun, friendly and exuberant atmosphere."

Claddagh Irish Pub is a chain like many of the restaurants in the Polaris area.  There is also a Claddagh Irish Pub downtown on Front St.  The Polaris,  Claddagh Irish Pub is at 8745 Sancus Blvd, Columbus, Ohio 43240.

We ate at Claddagh Irish Pub for the second time Saturday.  I believe the first time we ate at Claddagh was during the summer of 2009... actually no it was late summer or early fall because we were there on an OSU game day but we got there after the game but before the dinner crowd arrived in their OSU clothing.  We walked in and were seated instantly.  There was a lively group at the bar as I recall.

Late January 2010 we were not as lucky.  We had to wait for a table. That's a good sign on a Saturday night though isn't it?  A few years ago it was that way everywhere in the Polaris area. You had to wait for a table.  Hopefully it will be that way again in the future. Soon?

Claddagh was our second choice.  Our first choice another "chain" in the Polaris area the parking lot was so crowded we did not even go in to see how long the wait was.

Claddagh Irish Pub was mobbed too.  The parking lot was full.   The hostess said it would be a twenty minute wait. She was right on the money.  However we almost left because a couple of tables that were seated with menus,  got up and walked out because no one ever came back to take their orders.  What's the point of waiting for a table if no one waits on you?  We talked about leaving.  Next up?  Waffle House would have been our next try (ooooh not my choice... not that I don't love Waffle House...) but we stuck it out at Claddagh Irish Pub on Saturday evening.

Jessie who waited on us did a great job, so we were glad we were seated in her section. We were right next to a fireplace. It was the same table we were seated at on our first visit. Not right next to the bar but within earshot. Probably the whole restaurant is.

Traditional or authentic Irish fare

The Claddagh Irish Pub website says: "We take great pride in providing our guests with excellent quality products and service. Our recipes are prepared on the premises, using only the finest ingredients."

I ordered the corned beef and cabbage.   Traditional huh? Or maybe authentic. The carrots and potatoes were wonderful.   The cabbage was cold and tasteless and they served me a big hunk of the cabbage core. I did not eat the cabbage core. I love cabbage.  I don't eat the core.  Does anyone eat the core of a cabbage? Maybe that is authentic.

The corned beef was OK.  It was sliced thin, more something for sandwiches than traditional corned beef and cabbage.

The first time we ate at Claddagh Irish Pub at Polaris I had the Brian Boru Salad, a better choice. 

Authentic “pub house” experience

Claddagh Irish Pub is loud. Or maybe it was just exuberance.   The guy at the bar who kept yelling "Mother _ _ _ _ _"  was annoying. The two families with small children  in our section had left by the time he felt the need to tell his loud group of friends over and over about some "Mother _ _ _ _ _" 

Perhaps that was part of the authenticity. 

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Photo credit our dinners were not pretty enough to photograph and we drank soft drinks so this photo is from Flickr: Photo by Jeff Kubina.  The photo "Beer" was taken in Cincinnati Ohio.

Lewis Center Homes

According to the Columbus Oh MLS, there were 6 homes sold within the last 6 months ( July 25, 2009 through January 23, 2010 ) in the Village at Alum Creek Lewis Center Ohio 43035. The highest selling home within that time sold at 2256 Park Cir. for $270,000 and closed on July 29, 2009.

The Village at Alum Creek is located off of S. Old State Rd. near the Polaris Fashion Mall. Homes in the Village at Alum Creek sold at an average price per square foot of $101 within the last 6 months. Although 8 homes were sold a year ago within the same time, the selling price per square foot remained the same. Residents of the Village at Alum Creek enjoy Olentangy Schools.

If you know of anyone thinking of buying or selling a home in Lewis Center Ohio, please have them contact Sam Cooper, a top selling real estate agent with HER Realtors.

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Lewis Center Ohio 43035 homes for sale brought to you by Maureen McCabe Real Living HER

This graph shows Lewis Center Ohio 43035 single family homes for sale inventory for the past 15 months. Lewis Center in Southern Delaware County is in the Olentangy Local School District.

Lewis Center Ohio 43035 homes for sale - a market report


Homes for sale - 178
Homes sold in December 2009 - 13
Months of inventory based on current sales 13.7

December 2009 home sales -40.9% Vs. December 2008)

+ 7.8% homes for sale than a year ago
+ 55.7% months of inventory (based on closed Sales) in comparison to December 2008

Average active price $273,000
Average sale price $236,000
Median price $206,000


Lewis Center Ohio 43035 homes for sale - neighborhoods

Neighborhoods in the 43035 ZIP code with homes for sale include: Abbey Knoll, Olentangy Meadows, Parkshore, The Shores, Walker Woods, Waverly Place, Wynnstone and many more.

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Published January 2010 based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of December 2009. TrendGraphix reports presented are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors. According to Trendgraphix neither CBR nor their MLS (multiple listing service ) guarantee or are in anyway responsible for its accuracy. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed." Same goes for me! Only Real Living HER agents are authorized to use Trendgraphix in Central Ohio for real estate market news updates.