Table of Contents

• Curious about your home’s current value?

• Great news for Northeast Ohio home buyers!

• The Best Time of Year to Sell Your Home

• How To Reduce (or Eliminate) Your Monthly Mortgage …

• How An Eastlake Homeowner Sold His Home for $35,10 …

Curious about your home’s current value?

As you’ll see below, our local real estate market is shifting into a buyer’s market. If you’re thinking about selling your home and would like to get an instant updated home valuation on what your home might sell for, just type in your address on our website here:

Great news for Northeast Ohio home buyers!

We finally have some great news for home buyers!

First off, mortgage interest rates have dropped over the last few weeks and the current 30-year fixed mortgage interest rate is around 6.5% per NerdWallet.

Lower interest rates mean lower home payments! 😄 

Even better, our local real estate market has slowed down over the last few months. The chart below is from our local MLS tracking over 300,000 home sales in Northeast Ohio. It details the average list price vs. the average sale price of homes in our area:

In January of 2025, the average price reduction for homes sold during the month was $20,500! This trend continued in February of 2025 with the average price reduction of homes sold during the month of $17,500.

Compare these numbers to the prior months and you’ll be able to see the significant shift in our market!

Home sellers in our area are now having to reduce their asking prices, as well as, consider lower offers in order to sell their homes.

Some of this is due to the seasonality of our local market, but it also seems as if many home buyers are now holding off on buying, which has opened the doors (LOL) to better home pricing!

So, if you’ve been thinking about buying a home, you may be able to get a lower price combined with lower interest rates now!

And lucky for you, we publish a weekly list of beautiful homes available in our area on our website here: https://northeastohioliving.com/onefloorhomes

The Best Time of Year to Sell Your Home

If you’ve been thinking of selling your home, I highly recommend watching this short video where I detail when the best time of year to put your home on the market:

You’ll get to see how the average sale price of homes in our area has changed month-to-month over the last four years. The same pattern appears each year, which indicates the exact best time to list your home if your goal is to sell at the highest price possible!

How To Reduce (or Eliminate) Your Monthly Mortgage Payment When Buying a Home!

I’m a BIG fan of using real estate to strategically achieve any financial goal you may have. This is what I’ve tried to do over the years with my financial goals.

The reason why real estate is such an amazing tool is because you can use it to multiply your assets. This is the key strategy I detail in our new on-demand class:

I’m obviously a little biased about this class since I’m the one who taught it, but the unusual strategies I share are designed to help you minimize your monthly home payment when buying your next home.

I’ve shared 3 proven strategies that first time buyers can use with their first homes!

Plus, I’ve detailed 4 powerful strategies home sellers can use to minimize the home payment on their next home.

And if you’re thinking about selling your home, you have to watch this on-demand class to the end because I’ve detailed THE MOST PROFITABLE WAY YOU CAN SELL YOUR HOME!

You’ll probably be blown away by what’s possible!

How An Eastlake Homeowner Sold His Home for $35,100 Over List Price

Since I’ve mentioned the best time of year to list your home, I thought I’d share this interesting case study detailing how we sold a smaller two-bedroom home significantly above list price with multiple offers!

In this Case Study, you’ll get to see:

• A video tour of the home

• How many buyers walked through the home

• The number of offers received & the actual offer prices

• The final sale price of the home

  Plus, how you can sell your home for A LOT more money!

Have a great week!

-Rob & Kate Minton
eXp Realty
440-340-1445

P.S. Here are a few other ways we can help you:

1 - Grab a copy of our book, "Above List Price" detailing a 4-step system you can use to get multiple offers on your home.

2 - See a recent Case Study on how a Mentor homeowner sold a home that needed A LOT of work for 48,100 above list price by clicking here.

3 - Want to see what a buyer might pay for your home? Find out here.