Look at these guys. Come November we’re going to be painting a different picture here in Chicago. The drought is over and starting Monday the Chicago Cubs are going to erase failed memories of the past 100 years. 2008 is the year of the Cub. So I decided to get everyone ready for the upcoming [...]
27
Mar
Keep in mind that when I say Chicago Communities there is a difference between this and Chicago Neighborhoods. Most Chicago Neighborhoods we know and love are actually within a certain Chicago Community. Take Wrigleyville for example. It is a Neighborhood located within the Lakeview Community. Not to confuse you but some Neighborhoods are also Communities. [...]
25
Mar
“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow–that is patience.” -Unknown Source
I found this quote online and thought it appropriate. Over the past several weeks I have spoken about what obstacles buyers have been facing with the current real estate market here in [...]
21
Mar
Here is our weekly look at # of listings with # of solds for last week around Chicago. Take a look at the # of closed in 2008….and then take a look at last weeks. In a one week period we had almost 300 more closings…that’s a good sign. Even better is that the # [...]
21
Mar
Here is a wonderful shot of one of the many pedestrian bridges along the Naperville Riverwalk. But what is wrong with this photo? Being the second day of spring I had intended on showing off a photo of flowers or green grass or something spring like. BUT SINCE IT SNOWED 6 INCHES AROUND CHICAGO TODAY [...]
19
Mar
I’m getting a lot of phone calls asking about articles people are reading in different publications. I’m also talking to people who like most of us are hearing all of the terrible stories on the TV news regarding the mortgage/credit crunch but not paying complete attention because it doesn’t effect us. That may be wrong…you [...]
18
Mar
Here is our weekly look at the Real Estate market in the 77 communities of Chicago combined with nearly 300 suburbs of Chicago. The first chart compares the number of listings to the number of sales over the past week for 2008, 2007 and 2006. Keep in mind that things started to slow down roughly [...]
14
Mar
This Is What I Love About Chicago
Published in Fun Photo FridayI’m putting up two photos of the Chicago River. A) Because it’s an easy thing to find beautiful photos of and B) Because it is one of my favorite spots in the City of Chicago. The river downtown wrapping North and West of the Loop….day or night. Although when it comes to photography the night [...]
13
Mar
The Cook County Sales Tax is set to increase to 10.25% in November of this year and there is nothing you can do about it. Actually that is not true. I’m going to give you a phone number to call and vote against this increase. I just did it 5 minutes ago and it took [...]
12
Mar
I was out with a client last week looking at properties in Andersonville and Lincoln Square and this question came up. Of all of the condos we were looking at we kept hearing the words rehab, gut rehab and condo conversion. She asked the difference between a condo conversion and a gut rehab? So I [...]
