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Out of Town Buyers Consider Videos to Make Real Estate Decisions
First it was an email. Then a text. Then a phone call. A North Shore buying client wanted to take a look at a newly listed single family home offered on the suppressed value side of the ledger. No problem, I thought, until I noticed that this home in Deerfield was being shown for a [...]
The Market is the Smorgasbord – Chicago Real Estate Buffet
Smorgasbord. I thought of the word last night when I looked at a picture my wife snapped of me and the boys (they with painted faces and me simply grinning) as we enjoyed Midsommarfest on Clark Street in Andersonville. Over my shoulder in the lovely pic was a sign for a little shop featuring said [...]
The Heave-ho of a Chicago Realtor
Staccato. That describes yesterday and much of the last week. It was busy in spurts, with the busy-ness of the business of the Chicago real estate market erupting in segments of action. Kind of like the teletype machine back in the day I wrote for the United Press International broadcast desk in Chicago when a [...]
Chicago Housing Market . Rosy Scenarios have Thorns
A few nights ago Jackson rewrote history in the magnificent manner that a five-year-old will, telling the story of how mommy and daddy fell in love on the beach. While we have shared more than a few beach front holidays with sand beneath out feet, our initial meeting was a bit more urbane with the [...]
Triple Tens on Marathon Sunday in Chicago
If ever there was a day to stop on a dime, today would be that day. Three of them in a row. Ten / ten / ten. A few years back, when the days lined up in a sequence of sevens, we traveled to Vegas. Like droves of others I figured that since numbers don’t [...]
