Bexley

Looking for a Bexley home?  You will enjoy the quality, character and selection of homes available for sale in Bexley.  You’ll love the proximity to Downtown, the  Airport, and Capital University.  If you’re looking for a small, close-knit community with a quality school system, responsive Public Departments and high quality housing stock- Bexley has it all.

All Bexley Homes with at least 4 Bedrooms, and 2 baths

All Bexley Listings under $250,000

All Bexley Homes for Sale $250,000 – $350,00

All Bexley Homes for sale $350,000 – $500,000

All Bexley Homes for sale over $500,000

The Return of Third Thursday Open Houses and why it works in Bexley

This home at 2465 East Broad Street will be one of a dozen or so open during March's Third Thursday open house event in the Bexley area.

A few years back, some of the Realtor associations inside I-270 had an idea  about Open Houses.  Holding an open house on a day other than Sunday wasn’t a new idea but all agents, working together across brokerages to promote an additional opportunity to showcase listings was new. It wasn’t an idea that orginated from the local Board of Realtors, but in the field.

Fast forward to a week from tomorrow, the third Thursday in March, and the only open houses will be in one zip code -43209- Bexley, Berwick and Eastmoor.  In fact, the last I saw, there were 25+ homes (listed below but still time for others) in Bexley and Eastmoor open.

It didn’t stick in Clintonville, it didn’t stick in the Short North or in German Village or Upper Arlington. Why has the idea not only survived but thrived in the Bexley, Berwick and Eastmoor area?

• It’s a smallish area, approximately 9.3 square miles.
• Between Broad Street, Main Street, Livingston Avenue and James Road, a large amount of cars pass by the Open House signs every month.
• Affiliates of the local real estate association help to underwrite a full page ad in the Bexley News the week prior which details the homes to be held open.
• In Bexley, a relatively small number of agents have many of the active listings at any one time and they urge the homeowners to participate.
• I believe that the last informal tally I heard indicated that 12 homes sold in 2009 where the buyer first saw the home on a Thursday in Bexley, Berwick or Eastmoor. Success begets more chances.

From last count, these are some of the homes that will be Open Thursday March 18 from aprox. 5-7 PM.

The Bexley Real Estate update

This 1909 sf, 4 bed, 1.5 bath home on Bullitt Park sold for $254,000 a couple weeks ago.

Homes on the market: 104 Active Bexley homes for sale.

• Averaging 2451 sf,
• $450,725,
• $162/sf and
• 138 days on market.

Bexley Homes in contract with escape clauses:

2 Homes you could still, conceivably, swoop in and buy:

• 2688 Brentwood listed @ $695 and 292 S Columbia listed @ 1,545,000
• Avg 200 days on market

Bexley Homes in Contract contingent on financing/inspections as of today: 20

• Averaging 2,470 sf
• $341,555
• $136/sf
• 126 days on market

Bexley Homes Closed over the last 90 days: 36

• Averaging 2,180 sf
• $306,953 avg List but a $293,102 Sale price or 96%
• $132/sf
• 113 days on market

Joe Peffer is a Realtor who works in Bexley, Ohio and other Columbus Neighborhoods.

Would you like me to break it down by South-Central-North Bexley? email me and I will be glad to

Bexley Expanding its Reach

The City of Bexley already owns the couple of parcels South and to the creek

not by much though. This Week Bexley  reported recently that Bexley City Council voted to purchase a lot on the corner of Charles and Sheridan. As a Realtor who works in Bexley, it’s important for me to share with prospective buyers that the city is serious about its future and this lot was purchased with an eye toward development in that south -western portion of Bexley from Charles toward Livingston.

I think it’s important for buyers looking at Bexley real estate for sale to know that the city doesn’t rest on its laurels.  The article even hints at an eventual office park, though it’d have to raze existing buildings not owned by the city of Bexley.

“We always thought it would be nice to do an office park down there because of how close you are to Interstate 70,” [Development director Bruce Langner] said.

But there are some houses and apartments located in the area that would need to be razed before the site could be considered for redevelopment, Langner said.

Brennan said if someone showed interest and had a good plan for redeveloping the site, the city might be interested in selling the property to a developer.

“Probably some day down the road 10 to 20 years down the road the site will be valuable to someone who wants to (develop) something down there,” Brennan said. “There is nothing wrong with having the land and sitting on it for a few years.”

There was discussion at some point about developing a hotel on the property, but the area could not support a hotel, Brennan said.

Read more about it here.

Columbus Economy – Columbus Real Estate Markets don’t Exist in a Bubble

And you don’t buy homes for sale in Columbus in a vacuum.  Just like all real estate is local, regions tend to have their own economies. Just like the Columbus area housing market hasn’t crashed to the tune of the National real estate markets that make all the headlines and take over mindshare, the Columbus economy is vast and varied and weathering the storm better than you may expect.

I recently ran across a conversation that Walker Evans had with Dr. Bill LaFayette, the Vice President of Economic Analysis at the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. They discussed a variety of topics related to the Columbus economy.

This is a great snapshot of the Columbus economy. If you’re moving or relocating to Columbus, Ohio, then  you may be surprised to hear about how important rail is to the region, or tourism.  Here is a small exerpt of this interview that touches on passenger rail…

WE: Being able to see some of these results from the shipping and commercial rail sector, do you think we could see some of the same types economic benefits from passenger rail service? We’re very close to seeing the 3C passenger rail systemstarting. Do you think we will see a similar type of benefit from personal transportation?

BL: Different but important. The benefit would be making it easy to get from Cincinnati to here, from Cleveland to here, which would be a big boost for our tourism market. Again, another sector that we may not give as much credit to as it deserves, we get a lot of tourism here. We have been cited as a travel spot. The Short North specifically has been cited in national and international publications. We have been in The New York Times travel magazine a of couple times, The Los Angeles Times and when SkyBus was flying, just about every city that SkyBus connected Columbus with sent a reporter here to ask the question, “why would in the world would anyone jump on a plane and go to Columbus?” And those articles were absolutely glowing, so we sell ourselves short, we definitely do. There is much more to see and do here than we often think.

WE: We posted links to a lot of those stories as they started to roll in due to Skybus. After they ended up folding, a lot of people were saying it was a total waste of time, waste of money, a waste of everything… but the amount of positive press on a national level that Columbus received out of the whole ordeal might have helped balance the equation in the end.

BL: Oh, it was definitely a positive. It sort of reminded the air travel community that Port Columbus is an available, accessible airport with capacity.

Announcing the Summer of Love !

The first week of Summer, the 40 year anniversary of Woodstock and Comfest weekend…..It can only mean that Delicious Real Estate is declaring this the Summer of Love, Columbus Neighborhood Love!

We’ll be out on the streets, talking to real live Columbus area Natives about their Neighborhoods and why they Love their Columbus Neighborhood.

Want to send in your video or send a link to it? That’ll work too. We’ll roll out at least 3-5 short videos per week. Get excited Columbus and tell the world about why you love your community.