Chicago Neighborhoods
If it looks too good to be true… you know the rest
If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Every so often I get an inquiry from an online consumer trying to see a place that looks pretty good. Actually, it looks so good as to be too good to be true. Unfortunately for the inquirer places that look too good to be [...]
Snow on the Horizon (Unless it Doesn’t Come)
Puffy cheeked angels are hurling ever-damper spitballs earthbound as Chicago gears up for its first substantial snow of the season. Sitting in my North Shore perch, a Starbucks near my sons’ school, I ease from one task to the next, observing the gathering expression of wintry nature. From the voices weighing in on the radio [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Plumbing the Depths . What’s in my Pocket Today?
What’s in your pocket? Today, I bet, what’s there is different than what was there five years ago. And of course it’s different than when you were five years old. Every stage there’s something different taking up space in our pocket(s). I thought of this yesterday as my hand struggled into and out of the [...]
