East Village
The Big Truth about Jumbo Loans in Chicago Real Estate Market
“Chicago isn’t considered a “high cost” real estate market? Tell that to home buyers looking in any of the neighborhoods where I concentrate my business,” says Chicago real estate professional Tom McCarey. HUD didn’t classify Chicago as “high cost,” costing the city and its home buyers the opportunity to have access to more jumbo loan providers. The result? Higher interest rates and fewer options.
The Green Grass of Wrigley Field (as the Cubs Keep Their Winning Ways)
Few things in life offer the serenity of an afternoon Cubs game on a sunny summer day (especially when they win in extra innings). With the grass and ivy vying for greater green and the Cubs atop the majors and winning like they haven’t in years, Chicago real estate professional and life-long Cubs fan Tom McCarey is thinking very positive thoughts!
Connecting the Dots to Learn More About Chicago Real Estate Projects
Chicago real estate professional credits Chicago journalist Sydney J. Harris with his love of sleuthing out facts and connecting the dots and shares his approach using a Tribune article today and how google expanded the research and shed light on a few Chicago real estate projects.
Contemporary Condo in Chicago’s East Village Neighborhood - Video of 1934 Thomas
The Chicago real estate market cannot be fit into one description. Things are selling in certain neighborhoods while other areas are not as active. In the meantime many buyers seem to view sellers as desperate sorts who will sell for any number. This is not the case.
Newly Listed (& videotaped) Luxury Single Family in Chicago’s East Village
Top Chicago realtor Tom McCarey unveils new video tour of luxury single family listing in Chicago’s East Village neighborhood. Gorgeous 4 bed/3 full and 2 half bath home at corner of Wolcott & Race is spacious, gorgeous, and priced under $1,000,000. Penthouse deck offers views of Chicago skyline.
A Baby’s First Sequence of Steps (and the Chicago Real Estate Market Continues Moving Forward)
Daddy Tom McCarey, a top producing Chicago realtor, proudly watches one-year-old son Lucas Storm take one step after another. He also answers value question and refers to @ properties market report regarding Chicago real estate to allay concerns about the Chicago market.
Baby Steps and First-Time Buyers of Chicago Real Estate
My younger son Lucas is taking his first steps toward becoming bi-pedal.
And though I don’t remember my own progress toward becoming ambulatory a few decades back, I imagine my tentativeness then rivaled his now.
Urging him forward one step at a time I can’t help but imagine the primal terror he might feel as he stands, [...]
Peeking at Spring in Chicago with Tom McCarey (and Trusted Resources)
As I selected the outfits my sons would don today I mused back to the tail-end of my childhood when “Garanimals” were introduced.
Garanimals, for those not in the know, was and is a children’s clothing line providing tops and bottoms each emblazoned with animal tags designed to make matching little one’s outfits a bit easier. [...]
Meeting Moses at an East Village Coffee Shop (When He Gets an Emailed Offer)
Moses tooled up to an East Village coffee shop earlier today on his new sleek silver Vespa.
It had been a while since I had seen the old guy, but I’m never surprised by what he does or how he does it. Today being a slight slice of Spring on what this year has been an ever-elongating wintry landscape he opted [...]
How Long Has this Been on the Market?
Half a dozen of one, six of the other.
That might be the subtitle for the merging together of half of a box of a dozen frozen fish sticks found by an Ohio woman last week.
But instead of tossing the x-shaped trio on the frying pan, Victoria Landis tossed them on ebay where their Easter week appearance [...]
