Green Energy Ohio (GEO) welcomes the new Green Energy Ohio Tour for 2011! So Far Two Mahoning Valley Sites are featured.
Each October Ohiocelebrates the green energy industry in a statewide event that enlightens consumers about the developing marketplace. For the last 11 years, Green Energy Ohio (GEO) provides market information to the public on the first weekend in October to exhibit the industry across the state.
This year the “Ohio Solar Tour” name has been changed to the “Green Energy Ohio Tour” to more accurately describe the tour that features not only solar, but tour sites with wind, energy efficiency, biomass and other green energy technologies. This FREE statewide event on October 1 & 2 provides the unique opportunity for people to visit hundreds of Open House Sites and talk with owners living and working with clean energy technologies.
The U.S. Department of Education recently named 305 U.S. schools as 
In the boom year of 2006, Beaver Township housing contractors were, well, busy as beavers hammering up condo and housing developments in all four quadrants of the township. Pine Lake Reserve and the smaller The Lakes of Sharrott Hill were just two ambitious township projects that between them had plans for 350 or more upscale condo villas, multi-family, and single family residential homes in wonderfully planned unit developments. 
According to RE/MAX Valley Real Estate’s Mahoning Valley Housing Report (MVHR) for July, single family residential sales (not seasonally adjusted) remain in the doldrums, falling 11.7 percent from 308 units in June to just 272 in July. However, sales this month did mark nearly a ten percent rise over July of 2010. The seasonally adjusted, month over month comparison of closed transactions dropped again for the 41st consecutive month.
According to RE/MAX Valley Real Estate’s 
Home values in the United States fell faster in the first quarter of 2011 than they have in any quarter since 2008, when the housing market experienced its worst performance, according to Zillow’s first quarter Real Estate Market Reports. The Zillow Home Value Index fell 3 percent from the fourth quarter of 2010 to the first quarter of 2011, and declined 8.2 percent year-over-year to $169,600. Home values have fallen 29.5 percent since they peaked in June 2006.
Capital released its monthly Home Data Index™ (HDI) Market Report, and reports prices have double dipped nationally 0.7 percent below prior lows experienced in March 2009. This month’s HDI Market Report provides the most current (through April 2011), and relevant analysis of how local markets performed compared to the national trend in home prices.