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FROM A SEPTEMBER CALENDAR SO PACKED IT HAS TWO ARENA HEADLINERS ON THE SAME NIGHT TO A RESTAURANT LIST WHERE FOUR OF THE CITY'S BEST ARE NOW IN THE SUBURBS TO THE REASON MOST COLUMBUS HOMES SELL FOR LESS THAN THEY SHOULD: The Crew Host Their First U.S. Open Cup Semifinal Since 2010, the Palace Theatre Throws a Free 100th Birthday Party, a Penny-Farthing Race Comes to Plain City, Columbus Monthly's Best Restaurant List Now Runs Through Dublin, Powell and Polaris, and the Single Biggest Mistake Sellers Make Has Nothing to Do With Their House

Columbus culture and market data reveals one pattern this week — in real estate, the thing that actually creates value is almost never the thing people are looking at.

FROM 17 NEW GROCERY STORES OPENING IN FIVE YEARS TO A $1.65 BILLION MERGER THAT COULD GO DARK IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO THE MONTHLY NUMBER MOST COLUMBUS BUYERS ARE CALCULATING WRONG: Trader Joe's Broke a 20-Year Columbus Drought and Sprouts Chose Grandview for Its First Ohio Store Ever, Kroger's Acquisition of Giant Eagle Could Force Five to Fifteen Columbus Store Divestitures, Builders Are Buying Rates Down Below Market Right Now, and the Most Underrated Restaurant in Columbus Has Been Sitting on the Same Grandview Corner Since 2009

Columbus retail, merger, and affordability data reveals one pattern this week — the most valuable real estate research in this city is being done for free, published in public, and almost nobody is reading it.

FROM A $17 BILLION BANK MOVING ITS HEADQUARTERS TO DUBLIN TO A KOREAN BAKERY OPENING INSIDE ONE OF CENTRAL OHIO'S NEWEST COMMUNITIES: Northwest Bank Is Relocating Its Corporate HQ to Bridge North and Doubling Its Central Ohio Workforce to 300, Paris Baguette Just Opened as a First Tenant Inside Lawrence Square Between Hilliard and Dublin, and the MLS Data Shows Exactly What That Corridor Is Doing Right Now

Columbus development and market data reveals one thing this week — walkability has quietly become the most valuable feature in Central Ohio real estate, and the biggest players are paying up for it.

FROM CHICK-FIL-A, CHIPOTLE AND DUNKIN' ALL LANDING ON ONE DELAWARE LOT TO THE ZIP CODE THAT HOLDS CENTRAL OHIO'S MOST CONCENTRATED WEALTH TO FRANKLIN COUNTY CONTRACTS FALLING 21% WHILE PRICES HELD: Trailhead Crossing Breaks Ground With Eight National Tenants in One of the Fastest-Growing Counties in the Midwest, Bexley's 43209 Tops the Region's Wealth Rankings Ahead of the Booming Northern Suburbs, July's MLS Data Shows Buyers Quietly Getting Leverage Back Without a Single Dollar Coming Off the Median, and a 19.66-Acre Pickerington Estate With a Guest House and Private Dock Hits the Market

Columbus growth, wealth, and market data reveals a region being redrawn in two directions at once — and a narrow window to do something about it.

FROM NVIDIA AND OPENAI BUILDING A $1.5 BILLION AI CAMPUS SOUTH OF COLUMBUS TO A HOUSTON FIRM DROPPING $400 MILLION ON CENTRAL OHIO REAL ESTATE TO CHICK-FIL-A AND CHIPOTLE PLANTING FLAGS IN DELAWARE: Nvidia Will Invest $1.5B and Power an AI Campus OpenAI Just Leased for 20 Years, SparrowHawk Bought Three Central Ohio Industrial Properties in Its Largest Deal Ever, and National Brands Are Racing Into One of the Fastest-Growing Counties in the Midwest

Columbus development and investment data reveals one unmistakable pattern this week — the smartest money on the planet keeps making the same bet, and that bet is Central Ohio.

FROM AIRLINES BUILDING FLIGHTS AROUND OHIO STATE FOOTBALL TO AMAZON EYEING A $5 BILLION OHIO DATA CENTER TO A NEARLY 8,000-SQUARE-FOOT ESTATE ON A POWELL GOLF COURSE: John Glenn Is Adding Flights to Away-Game Cities for Select Buckeye Weekends, AWS Is in Talks for an 18-Building, 601-Acre Campus That Doubles Down on the Bet That Built New Albany, a 6-Bed Estate Backing the 9th Hole at Kinsale Hits the Powell Market, and NFM Lending Is Named Central Ohio's #1 Mortgage Lender for the Third Straight Year

Columbus travel, tech, and real estate data reveals the same thing on every front this week — a city getting more connected, more invested in, and more in demand.

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THE COLUMBUS MARKET, DECODED: WHAT THE FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 2026 ACTUALLY TOLD US — AND WHERE IT GOES NEXT

A real estate analyst's read on the Central Ohio market, built entirely on live MLS data.