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📬 In today’s edition:

• 🏘️ The 350-home threshold is the number every Cleveland investor needs to know

• 🚌 Cleveland's 1948 Greyhound station is getting its Art Deco look back

• 🎭 The old Greyhound station at 1465 Chester Ave. is becoming part of Cleveland's experiential economy

📰 Cleveland Market Minute

Centennial transformation may get financing soon, too

It appears that Millennia Companies is doing more than assembling financing to redeem a foreclosed loan on 925 Euclid Ave. and remove the Downtown Cleveland property from a court-ordered receivership. It also appears that it is also seeking to close on financing to undertake a redevelopment of the property per its city-approved plans.

NEOtrans has learned that Millennia also has a new project team for the roughly $500 million renovation and repurposing of the vacant 1.45-million-square-foot former Cleveland Union Trust Building into a residentially based mixed-use complex.

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MetroHealth to update Emergency Dept.

Possibly by the end of this year, major changes are coming to MetroHealth’s Emergency Department (ED) at its main campus in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood, 2500 Metrohealth Dr. A renovation project costing up to $9 million will get underway amid the goings-on of a busy Level I trauma center.

The trick will be in organizing and coordinating construction laborers working around a functioning, sometimes frenzied ED. And it will require keeping the existing ED easily accessible to care providers and not confusing to patients and their loved ones during a very stressful time in their lives.

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Greyhound Station to look like 1948 again

Work is due to start in a couple of weeks on preparing the vacated, historic Downtown Cleveland Greyhound station, 1465 Chester Ave., for its next role. That role is to become a leading actor in the future of the Playhouse Square district’s experiential economy.

Just after Labor Day, passersby may start to notice that work, projected to total about $2.33 million among all phases. It will begin with reroofing the 1948-built station, designed in the Streamline Moderne style of Art Deco to protect the building’s interior from Cleveland’s climate.

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🏠 Just Sold Spotlight – Restored 1880 Ohio City Colonial with Skylights, Exposed Brick, Pergola Patio & Professionally Redesigned Backyard Sold in 6 Days

📍 4004 John Ave, Cleveland, OH 44113

• 💰 Sold Price: $450,000

• 📏 Size: 1,719 sq. ft.

• 📅 Year Built: 1880

• 🛏 3 Beds | 🛁 2 Full + 1 Half Bath

• 🚗 Driveway / Off-Street Parking

• 🌳 Lot Size: 2,273 sq. ft.

• 🏫 School District: Cleveland Municipal School District

📝 Investor Takeaway

Six days on market. That's the headline. In a 44113 buyer's market sitting at just 36/100 index, this John Ave Colonial sold in under a week closing $9,100 above its $440,900 Zestimate and confirming that fully restored historic product with outdoor lifestyle appeal commands immediate demand regardless of broader market softness.

🏡 Neighborhood Insight

• 📍 Community: Old Brooklyn, Cleveland (44109)

• 🏞 Nearby Landmarks: Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Cleveland Metroparks trail system, I-480, Downtown Cleveland, Cleveland Hopkins Airport, Parma border

• 🚶 Accessibility: Minutes from I-480 and Hopkins Airport; walkable to parks, restaurants, and shopping corridors

• 🌿 Lifestyle Appeal: Old Brooklyn's combination of spacious lots, mature trees, strong neighborhood identity, and unbeatable access to Metroparks and Downtown Cleveland continues to attract both owner-occupants and investors who want Cleveland's best value-per-square-foot in a genuinely livable community

📈 Recent Sales Nearby:

• 1815 W 58th St – $425,000 | 3 Bed | 3 Bath | 1.7k sq. ft.

• 4311 Bailey Ave – $400,000 | 3 Bed | 2 Bath | 1.7k sq. ft.

• 2311 W 40th St – $479,900 | 3 Bed | 3 Bath | 1.8k sq. ft.

• 1730 Randall Rd – $395,000 | 3 Bed | 2 Bath | 1.6k sq. ft.

• 1814 W 30th St – $407,000 | 2 Bed | 2 Bath | 1.5k sq. ft.

Listed by: Jordan Shoger | Keller Williams Living

📞 216-446-7606 | [email protected]

Bought by: Nicole Amacher | Progressive Urban Real Estate Co.

💡 Insider’s Insight

⚖️ Congress Passes "Homes Are for People, Not Corporations"

Congress has officially passed the "Homes Are for People, Not Corporations" provisions as Title X of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, according to a new client alert from Squire Patton Boggs' Cleveland office.

The Act defines a "large institutional investor" using two tests: ownership of 350 or more single family homes, and a broad concept of "investment control" over those properties. Anyone who clears both thresholds is subject to new federal purchase restrictions on single family homes.

Most of the rest of the pipeline is market rate. Canopy at 6400 Herman Ave. is the largest active project, a four-story, 135-unit apartment building rising on a former industrial site next to Herman Park.

📌 What actually changed in the enacted version

• Large institutional investors must now file annual reports to Congress disclosing their single family home holdings

• HUD will administer a new renter outreach program allowing tenants to report disputes and potential violations tied to properties owned by large institutional investors

The compliance burden lands squarely on the largest players, but the ripple effects reach smaller investors too. Family offices invested as limited partners in funds sponsored by a large institutional investor should expect some of the new compliance costs to show up as higher management fees or fund expenses, even though the family office itself is not the entity filing reports.

🔑 Investor Takeaway

The 350 home threshold is the number every Cleveland investor should memorize, because it is the line between being a bystander to this law and being directly regulated by it. Most local buy and hold investors, small syndicates, and even sizable family office portfolios sit nowhere near that scale, which means the purchase restrictions themselves are unlikely to touch typical Cleveland deal flow directly.

🏢 Cleveland Multifamily Vacancy Falls to 3.68% as Supply Pipeline Disappears

Cleveland's multifamily market delivered one of the tightest vacancy readings in Ohio this quarter. Vacancy fell to 3.68% in Q2 2026, down 90 basis points from Q1, and continuing a sharp multi year decline from above 5.9% in early 2024. What makes the tightening notable is that it is happening without meaningful job growth behind it. The Cleveland metro added only about 800 net jobs in all of 2025 and has held roughly flat into 2026, yet rental demand keeps outpacing the market's thin supply regardless.

Rent grew 2.88% year over year to $1,451, a real deceleration from Q1's 4.80% pace, but Cleveland still commands among the highest average rents in Ohio. South Cleveland and Strongsville/Medina are running the tightest, at 2.3% and 2.2% vacancy respectively.

📌 Cleveland's supply pipeline in one glance

• Units currently under construction: 1,430, just 0.82% of total inventory

• Trailing twelve month completions: 1,481 units, little changed year over year after peaking near 1,900 in 2023

• At the current absorption pace, the entire remaining pipeline could clear in under a single quarter

Permitting activity here ranks among the lowest of any major U.S. metro tracked by Matthews, which is the structural reason vacancy should stay tight through the rest of 2026 regardless of what happens with rent growth or employment.

Cap rates crept higher to 8.01%, up modestly from 7.96% a year ago and among the highest in the entire Matthews footprint. Price per unit held essentially flat at $78,300, down 0.4% year over year, which is a clear sign that pricing has plateaued even as the underlying operating story keeps improving.

📌 The investment market at a glance

• TTM volume: $297.4M, down 10.4% YoY, softest volume in the Matthews comparison set

• Price per unit: $78,300, down 0.4% YoY, essentially flat

• Cap rate: 8.01%, among the highest tracked

🔑 Investor Takeaway

This is one of the clearest disconnects between operating fundamentals and investment pricing that Cleveland's multifamily market has shown in years, and it is exactly the kind of gap patient capital should be paying attention to. Vacancy at 3.68% with a construction pipeline that could clear in a single quarter is a textbook setup for continued rent growth, yet cap rates are drifting up and price per unit is flat to slightly down.

🏡House of the Week – Corner Fireplace, 4th-Floor Covered Deck & Private Garden in a Secluded Tremont Location

📍 1140 Auburn Ave, Cleveland, OH 44113

• 💰 Price: $330,000

• 📏 Size: Square footage not listed — confirm with listing agent

• 📅 Year Built: 1999 | Major Mechanicals Recently Updated

• 🛏 2 Beds | 🛁 2 Full Baths + 1 Half Bath

• 🚗 Attached 2-Car Garage with Drains & Door Openers

• 🏡 Condominium | Tremont / Lincoln Park

• 🏫 School District: Cleveland Metropolitan School District

🧘 Vibes: Tucked into a private, secluded setting steps from Lincoln Park, this four-story Tremont condo delivers the kind of character that new construction simply can't replicate corner gas fireplace, hardwood floors, a garden courtyard, front balcony, side porches, and a fourth-floor covered deck.

👉 Listed by: Marlin L. Palich | Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Stouffer Realty

📞 330-727-1723 ✉️ [email protected]

🛠 Tools & Resources We Recommend

• PropStream → Lead generation + property comps

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