Archive for December, 2011
Well Versed in Chicago Real Estate Listings? The Haiku Approach
A friend recently slipped a haiku into a facebook status update. As is the case always with haiku, once it enters my line of sight I refuse to relinquish the reins of haiku IQ for a good two weeks. Thus have I viewed life through the prism of the haiku for the past few days, [...]
Ho Ho Ho your Horses for Friday Evening Bash
Friday night the group gathered to toot their horns and celebrate the season. The setting was the grand ballroom at the J.W. Sheraton downtown and the hosts were the ever affable chieftains of @properties, Thad Wong and Michael Golden. The attendees were a veritable four figures of people intent on talking, laughing, eating and drinking [...]
Clarifying Value as We Prepare to Make an Offer on a Chicago Condo
Value is a tricky thing to capture. In the Chicago and North Shore real estate market it’s akin to taking a shoe box and filling it with like-sized properties either in the same building (in the case of mid and high-rises) or approximately a half mile for condos and zip codes for many single family [...]
Lassoing the Moon and Brokers Who “Aspirationally” Price Chicago Homes
We have passed the threshold of December 1st and upon us soon are the holy trilogy of holy events: Christmas, Hannukah and Kwanzai. And as thoughts ceaselessly shift in my mind like so many waves along Lake Michigan the stutteringly smooth tones of George Bailey ring in my ears as he asks Mary on their [...]
A Celebrity Seller with an Unsold Gold Coast Condo
On Sunday I met a couple at my Gold Coast open house at 1224 N Dearborn. As we talked about the overall Chicago market and more specifically the Gold Coast they told me that one of their primary considerations is square footage. For some reason this triggered in my mind a single floor residence at [...]
