Chicago Real Estate

Many real estate agents out there are telling their sellers that the only way to sell in this buyers market is to continue to reduce their price. Many times the price reductions are 5% or more at a time. This is a lie! The truth is the home should have been priced properly in the first place. [Read more →]

This is the strongest Buyers Market to hit the Chicagoland area in at least 20 years, yet many buyers are waiting for the market to turn around before acting. You are missing your best opportunity to buy a home in at least 20 years! First we should back up for a second and explain what happens in a Buyers Market like the one we are currently seeing and how buyers felt during the latest hot “Sellers Market”. [Read more →]

If you have children you most likely find yourself carving pumpkins and planning costumes for Halloween. While the tradition of Halloween is unknown to most children they just love the fun of pretending to be someone or something they aren’t, getting lots of candy, and carving pumpkins. Sure you can go to Jewel to pick up a pumpkin, but why not take a morning and have a little family fun. Goebbert’s Farm in South Barrington has it all from Camel rides, Pony rides, petting zoo, shopping, and naturally pumpkins. [Read more →]

The real estate industry has been dominated by individual agents for years. These agents have to run around and do everything by themselves. They have to be a master of advertising, negotiating, contracts, listing homes, selling homes, paperwork, and all of the back end work involved in buying and selling a home. One person just can’t do it all so real estate agents have gotten a bad name over the years. They are looked at as a necessary evil needed to get into homes and get your home sold. [Read more →]

When most people think of the Taste of Chicago they think of food, food and more food. While you can’t pass up some corn on the cob on a hot summer day, food isn’t nearly the only reason to go to the Taste of Chicago. [Read more →]

Timing is everything when investing your money. So many people jump on the bandwagon and buy when the market is “hot” and then panic and try selling when the market is “soft”. This buy high and sell low approach is the exact opposite of what smart investors do. [Read more →]

Our team is running the sales for the Old Orchard Condo conversion in Skokie Illinois. These units are located next to the Westmoreland Country Club and some units even overlook the golf course. Another landmark two blocks from our project is Old Orchard Mall. To add to our great location public transportation is only a block away and you are under a mile to the expressway (Rt. 94). [Read more →]

Our team is running the sales for the condo conversion as Spring Hill Condos. We opened up to the public around St. Patricks day and currently have about 100 units under contract. This conversion is 264 units and our original goal was to sell out in around 18-24 months. With the current pace of sales we should be able to sell much faster then our original goal.

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With our hectic lives and busy schedules most of us take our freedoms for granted. We sometimes forget about the men and women that have given their lives to protect our freedoms and way of life.

Putting politics aside today is the day that it doesn’t matter if you believe that the current “War on Terror” is right or wrong. Today is the day that we need to make it known that we are a nation that stands together. [Read more →]

“Buying a Listing” is what I call it when an real estate agent is willing to tell a homeowner that they feel the home should be listed higher than it is really worth. The agent claims the home is worth an inflated price so the owner will get excited and hire the dishonest agent. With their lies they “buy the listing”.

Just the fact that an agent is willing to misrepresent what a home is worth to get a listing shows a lack of ethics and shows they don’t really care about the client. What really happens with an overpriced listing? [Read more →]