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Cincinnati's Hottest Submarkets: What a Top Agent Sees Right Now

Ethan Bishop made an offer on a property listed at $450,000 and lost it to a cash buyer at $570,000. He thinks it was not worth $570,000. Someone believed it was, and now those are the comps.

Cincy REI Show Episode 16 card with hosts Slocomb Reed and Ian Cruz and guest Ethan Bishop.

Episode 16 of the Cincy REI Show features Ethan, a top-producing agent at the Chabris Group of Keller Williams Seven Hills Realty who has sold 200+ properties across Greater Cincinnati in six years and brings a data-driven, boots-on-the-ground perspective on where the market is moving right now.

What the episode covers

  • Loveland: why it is the hottest submarket in Greater Cincinnati right now. Drees Homes is building a 25-lot community starting at $1.1M, and buyers priced out of Indian Hill and Lake Montgomery are chasing anything with space and a short drive to Kenwood.
  • The eastern growth corridor: Goshen and Batavia up through Maineville and Morrow, where D.R. Horton, Fisher, Drees, Miranda, and MI Homes are buying large parcels and building out fast. Ethan likes it most for long-term appreciation.
  • Old Milford: why it may be the best small multifamily opportunity in Greater Cincinnati right now. It is golf cart-friendly, walkable to a charming downtown, and sits on the edge of developable land with a boomer demographic that wants to downsize without moving downtown.
  • Norwood: why the 1960s brick bunker inventory is a different market from Factory 52, why two-bedroom units are sitting, and why the school district line between Norwood and Cincinnati Public matters more than most investors realize.
  • Pleasant Ridge versus Kennedy Heights: why Ethan likes Pleasant Ridge more right now, and why everything along the Montgomery Road corridor from Evanston north through Silverton and Deer Park continues to appreciate faster than the broader market.
  • Evanston: why it is the most confusing neighborhood to comp in Cincinnati. Buy there only at a basis conservative enough that the numbers from five years ago are gravy, not your base case.
  • Green Township: three school districts within one township, a new Cooper's Hawk, a Fisher Homes community selling into the mid-$700s on quarter-acre lots, and two-to-four-unit off-market deals with solid numbers.
  • Lebanon: why Ethan thinks it becomes the next Mason in 15 years. The charming walkable downtown plus surrounding developable agricultural land follows the same playbook as Loveland and Old Milford.
  • Affordable new construction: D.R. Horton in the Goshen-Batavia-Amelia corridor, with rates as low as 4.5% and spec homes in the $350K to $375K range.

Listen

Stream Episode 16 on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. For the lender's map of the same area, read Cincinnati hard money lending with Grant Smith.

Originally published in the Cincy Cash Flow Report on June 30, 2026.

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