Fairlawn real estate
Avery Kolich, REALTOR® The Penney Group
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eXp Realty, LLC
A post-war suburb on Akron’s west side, built mostly in the fifties and sixties and still filling in.
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The houses in Fairlawn
Fairlawn is young as places around here go. It was part of Copley Township until it separated and became a city in 1971, and most of its housing went up in the decades before that. A typical Fairlawn house dates from the mid-sixties.
Fairlawn Heights is the part people name first, and it carries a good deal of mid-century modern among the colonials and ranches. Elsewhere the stock is mostly fifties and sixties ranches and splits on generous lots.
It is still changing. The Rosemont Country Club site, a landmark here for close to a century before it closed in 2020, is being redeveloped for housing, which will add stock of a completely different age.
For sellers that mix matters, because a mid-century house and a 1990s house a few streets apart are not comparable sales for each other, whatever an automated estimate says.
I represented the buyer on Morewood Road here. What I would say about Fairlawn generally is that the houses are well built for their age and that the lots are bigger than people expect from somewhere this close to Akron, which is most of the reason buyers end up choosing it.
My closings here
- 3317 Morewood RdFairlawn, OH 44333Represented the buyer
A closing in Fairlawn, with The Penney Group at eXp Realty, LLC.
Avery Kolich
Common questions
What are Fairlawn houses typically like? Mostly ranches, splits and colonials from the fifties and sixties, with mid-century modern turning up around Fairlawn Heights, and newer building where land has come available.
Does being a newer suburb change anything when I sell? It changes the comparables. In a town where most houses went up within about fifteen years of each other, buyers compare like with like and small differences in condition and updates move the price more than they would in a mixed-age market. It also means a genuinely unusual house here, a mid-century modern for instance, needs pricing on its own terms rather than against the ranch next door.
Fairlawn or Copley: what is the actual difference? Fairlawn is a city and Copley is a township, and Fairlawn was part of Copley until 1971. They sit next to each other and the housing overlaps, but they are separate jurisdictions, so taxes and local requirements are not identical. I will give you the figures for the specific address.
