Worthington Ohio real estate brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER     The graph shows Worthington homes for sale and Worthington homes sold in 15 months, through December 2010.  The graph is for single family homes in the Worthington City School District.   Worthington home sales in December were down 15% from December 2009 (the dark green bars.)   Worthington homes for sale is up 26.3% (the light green bars.) Search Worthington Ohio homes for sale Worthington Ohio real estate a market report for December 2010 216 homes for sale 34 homes sold 6.4 months of inventory available average active price $250,00 average sale price $231,000 median sale price $219,000 The 6.4 months of Worthington homes for sale is up or sale 48.6%  from December 2009.  The sale price of Worthingto... 01/08/2011

Worthington Estates Home Sales 2010    Range of homes sale price  $100,000 to $300,000 15 single family homes sold Worthington Estates Homes Sales Past 5 Years 2010 average sale price $224,780 2009 average sale price $238,331 2008 average sale price $222,726 2007 average sale price $222,016 2006 average sale price $236,007 Sell your Worthington Estates home     I searched strictly for "Worthington Estates"... I did not remove the Worthington Estates East homes sold  in 2010 because I would have then had to go back through and do the same for 2006 to 2010.  I could but I did not.  Only homes listed in the Columbus Board of REALTORS® MLS as "Worthington Estates" or Worthington Estates East are included.  Occasionally a listing agent does not include the neighborhood name in the space for ... 01/05/2011

Colonial Hills Home Sales 2010    Range of homes sale price $125,000 to $262,000 33 single family homes sold Colonial Hills Home Sales past 5 years 2010 average sale price $175,773 2009 average sale price $187,434 2008 average sale price $189,000 2007 average sale price $179,043 2006 average sale price $184,225 Sell your Colonial Hills home Colonial Hills Worthington Ohio real estate Colonial Hills real estate Worthington schools 01/05/2011

Worthingview Home Sales 2010   Range of homes sale price $187,500 to $273,000 8 single family homes sold Worthingview Home Sales past 5 years 2010 average sale price$223,063 2009 average sale price $197,650 2008 average sale price $207,250 2007 average sale price $217,750 2006 average sale price $211,867 Sell your Worthingview home More about Worthingview Columbus, Ohio 43235 real estate Worthington schools   01/03/2011

Olentangy Highlands Home Sales 2010 View Olentangy Highlands in a larger map Range of homes sale price $218,000 to $376,500 6 single family homes sold Olentangy Highlands Home Sales History 2010 average sale price $279,750 2009 average sale price $254,175 2008 average sale price $296,727 2007 average sale price $286,234 2006 average sale price $295,300 Sell your Olentangy Highlands homes   Olentangy Highlands Columbus Ohio 43085 real estate Worthington schools 01/02/2011

Stilson Highlands Home Sales 2010 Range of homes sale price $ 276,000 to $410,000 7 single family homes sold Stilson Highlands Home Sale History 2010 average sale price $337,429 2009 average sale price $374,686 2008 average sale price $347,648 2007 average sale price $296,225  2006 average sale price $368,613   Sell your Stilson Highlands home View Stilson Highlands in a larger map Stilson Highlands Stilson Highlands Neighborhood Columbus, Ohio 43235 real estate Worthington schools   01/02/2011

View Worthington Hills in a larger map If you are viewing the Worthington Hills Neighborhood post on Facebook, you may need to go to Worthington Old and News to see the map. The Worthington Hills neighborhood in northwestern Franklin County is split between Perry and Sharon Townships and a small part on the south end is in the City of Columbus.  Worthington Hills has a Columbus, Ohio 43235 mailing address. The whole Worthington Hills neighborhood is in the Worthington School District.  The current attendance area for the Worthington Hills neighborhood: Elementary - Worthington Hills Middle - McCord High school - Worthington Kilbourne The average home in Worthington Hills is about 2500 square feet and has 4 bedrooms and 2 1/ 2 bath. Homes in Worthington Hills were built in the 1960s and... 12/31/2010

The Worthington Highlands neighborhood is on the far north side of Columbus. The neighborhood is in the Worthington City School District and has a Westerville mailing address. The present zip code is 43081 and has been for years. The current schools* for the Worthington Highlands neighborhood: Elementary -  Worthington Park Elementary School Middle School - Worthingway High School - Thomas Worthington High School The elementary school is very close to Worthington Highlands at 500 Park Road Westerville, Ohio 43081 (it is a Worthington City School District facility with a Westerville mailing address.) *School attendance area can change year to year based on population shifts within most school districts.  The Worthington City School District website has a map that shows attendance areas a... 12/31/2010

Brookside Woods on Google Maps! View Brookside Woods in a larger map The Brookside Woods neighborhood in northwest Columbus is unique in that there are two school districts within the neighborhood.  Part of Brookside Woods is in Dublin schools and part is in Worthington schools.  School districts in Central Ohio were put in place long before this area was developed.   A house is in one school district or the other, there is not a choice of school districts on any house in Central Ohio.  Within each school district there are attendance areas for each neighborhood. Brookside Woods is in the Columbus Ohio 43235 zip code, the West Worthington zip code, which was part of the Worthington, 43085 zip code until the late 1980s.   Brookside Woods is west of Brookside Golf and County Club  and ru... 12/30/2010

Olentangy Highlands Neighborhood The Olentangy Hills neighborhood was built in 1970s primarily, a few homes were built in the 1980s. The average home size is about 2600 square feet in Olentangy Highlands.  The average home in the neighborhood is a four bedroom two and a half baths.  Most homes have a two car garage, a minority have a three car garage. Located inside 270 between Olentangy River Road and Linworth Road, Olentangy Highlands is in the City of Columbus and the Worthington City School District.  Olentangy Highlands is in the 43085 zip code.  Most of the neighborhoods north and west of it are in the West Worthington zip code, 43235. Being so close to the Olentangy River there are ravines in the Olentangy Highlands neighborhood and many more hills than most Central Ohio neighbor... 12/29/2010

  The Stilson Highlands neighborhood is on the northwest side of Columbus inside 270 in the Worthington City School District.  The Stilson Highlands neighborhood's current school attendance* areas are: Elementary School - Bluffview Middle School - McCord High School - Worthington Kilbourne The majority of the homes in the Stilson Highlands neighborhood  were built in the 1980s.  The average square footage is just over 3000. The average Stilson Highlands home is four bedroom and two and a half baths.   Search Worthington area listings for Stilson Highlands homes for sale View Stilson Highlands in a larger map *School attendance area can change year to year based on population shifts within most school districts.  The Worthington City School District website has a map that shows attendan... 12/28/2010

Christmas Morning in Worthington Ohio 1928 Don O'Brien and his younger brother David on Christmas morning in 1928, in one of black and white photos he shares on Flickr.   Actually their house on W. Wilson Bridge Road was north of Worthington.  The house at 130 W. Wilson Bridge Rd. was out in the country north of the Village of Worthington in the 1920s. The Village of Worthington, what is now called "Old Worthington" was from North St. to South St. and Morning St. to Evening St., West Wilson Bridge Rd. was way out in the country in Sharon Township.  In the 1930s at least W. Wilson Bridge Road was in the Worthington school district of the time, there was a Sharon Township school district too. On his Flickr page on this and another Christmas 1928 photo, Mr. O'Brien describes the flash powd... 12/25/2010

St. Johns Episcopal Church, Worthington Ohio St. Johns Episcopal Church bell first rang on December 24, 1933 according to a 1960s  Worthington Chamber Booklet on Flickr.  In 1933 the first church in Worthington got a bell, finally.  Or was it a replacement for an earlier bell?  The Worthington church already had a long past by 1933 when it got a bell:    "On February 6, 1804, the Articles of Agreement establishing St. John's Church of Worthington were executed"  From the Timeline on the Worthington Memory Site. Worthington was established in 1803. Life in 1933  1933  was the Great Depression 1933 Hitler came to power in Germany 1933 Prohibition ended in the United States, I believe in December 1933 FDR became the United States President Life in Worthington Ohio in 1933 Worthington would... 12/24/2010

The Columbus Dispatch says the sale of the Worthington Square Mall is final.  The mall on W. Wilson Bridge Rd. sold for approximately $6.5 Million according to  Marla Matzer Rose's article titled "Mall's new owner ready to make big changes "  Big changes like tearing off the roof....  or part of the roof.  The rendering in Columbus Business First was interesting. The Dispatch article talks about making the exterior of the "enclosed  mall more walkable."  That will work if the whole Wilson Bridge Corridor rework goes anywhere.   Offices, businesses to walk to Worthington Square from.    The malls new owners are Tom Carter of Worthington, and partners. They plan to invest $10 Million in the Worthington Square Mall according to the newspaper article. The Columbus Dispatch article says of t... 12/22/2010

Theodore van Fossen,  the architect who designed Rush Creek Village passed away earlier this month.  I  saw  it on the PrairieMod site first, In Memoriam Theodore van Fossen on PrarieMod has a link to the article  today by Jim Weiker in The Columbus Dispatch: Theodore van Fossen | 1919-2010 Architect designed Rush Creek Village Theodore van Fossen died December 9, 2010, according to today's Columbus Dispatch article. The article in the Sunday December 12, 2010 Columbus Dispatch about two new homes being built in Rush Creek Village said the families building the first homes in the Usonian neighborhood in decades met with van Fossen in Pennsylvania about the plans for their homes.  The Columbus Dispatch says van Fossen made one visit to Worthington in the past few years during the planni... 12/21/2010

Renovations will begin soon on this nearly 40 year old mall in Worthington Ohio. The Worthington City council voted to support a tax increment financing plan (TIF) that would help aid in the renovation of the mall. The new owners plan to invest approx $10 Million in the project.   This well situated Mall has experienced high vacancies over the past decade due to poor management and the construction of the nearby Polaris mall.     12/21/2010

Worthington condo sales brought to you by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER This graph shows condominiums for sale in Worthington schools for the past 15 months and condos sold for the same area in the same time frame.  Only eight condos sold in the area in November 2010, down 55.6% from November 2009.  There were tax credits for home buyers this time last yea. Comparing condo sales Worthington schools sales to November condo sales in other areas: Franklin County condo sales down 50.7% Columbus Board of REALTOR down 44.9% (the whole MLS area) Dublin schools condo sales down 30.4% Westerville schools condo sale down 70.6% Columbus school district condo sales down 64.4% Olentangy school disttrict condo sales down 47.4% It's a great time to buy a condo, the average sold price in November w... 12/19/2010

Ski?  The Worthingview neighborhood in West Worthington (Columbus Ohio 43235) has cool snowy names. Cross Country Drive I looked at a house on Cross Country Drive when I moved to Columbus in 1990 with a set of cross country skis. Duffy... I always assumed the street was named after the  home builder Snowmass is a place in Colorado Buttermilk? Tiehack? Amol? Hatherly? Ski Worthingview? Skiing in Columbus? Worthingview has some backyards that might make for thrilling cross country skiing.  Being close to the river there are ravines in the Worthingview area.  Were these snow covered slopes in flat Central Ohio what gave the Worthingview neighborhood streets their names?   I have cross country skied with  friends in High Bluffs Metro Park.  My skis were stolen and I never replaced them but ... 12/18/2010

Worthington schools and a great interest rate...   Home for sale in Worthingview  - 1344 Snowmass Rd. Columbus OH 43235* Look inside this Worthingview home: 1344 Snowmass Rd. Columbus Ohio 43235   Quick before it's too late  ...a great interest rate   If you sat on the fence too long and missed last months great rates.... (and the low mortgage rates in October 2010 and September 2010 and August 2010 and July 2010 and... )  interest rates are going up. The seller on 1344 Snowmass Rd. Columbus Ohio 43235  (the West Worthington area, Columbus taxes, Worthington schools)  is offering to provide the buyer of this home a temporary buydown.  Get November 2010 rates NOW.   Worthington schools (Worthington City School District) Bluffsview Elementary School McCord Middle School Thomas Worthington... 12/15/2010

When you think of historic Worthington you think of colonial revival architecture or I do.... but Rush Creek Village in Worthington is on the National Register of Historic Places.  Worthington Ohio modern! The community of Usonian style homes are historic. Did you see the article in last Sundays Columbus Dispatch about the two NEW homes being built in Rush Creek Village now.  Written by Jim Weiker  "  Couples faced, overcame myriad obstacles in quest to build in Worthington's historic Rush Creek"  but they are "hammering them out" The Usonian style development, a historic Worthington neighborhood is on the south east side of the city.  The two couples building new homes have lived in Rush Creek for years.  One of the most interesting parts of Weiker's articles to me is about the lots th... 12/14/2010