Jeffrey Simmons

Executive Summary: The Bottom Line If you are buying or selling real estate in Central Ohio right now, you are operating in a minefield. Our October 2025 Market Velocity scan of fifteen counties reveals a critical anomaly: "Heavy Capitulation."

Morrow County doesn’t get the hype of places like Delaware or Knox — but maybe it should. The latest ZHVI anomaly data shows a market that’s not trying to be flashy, yet still keeps quietly grinding upward. It’s the kind of county people overlook right until they can’t afford its neighbors anymore. And honestly? That’s where opportunity usually sneaks in. Historic courthouse with a prominent clock tower in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, bathed in warm sunlight as birds fly overhead. According to your...

Author’s Note:  Portions of the narrative in this article were drafted with assistance from ChatGPT. All data analysis, datasets, calculations, and insights were personally produced by Pioneer Data Analytics. If you only watched Columbus headlines, you’d think Central Ohio real estate is basically Delaware County, New Albany, Intel, and nothing else. But here’s the twist: Marion County is quietly putting up numbers that deserve way more attention , and the data shows a market moving out of...