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.

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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.

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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.

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A New Way of Looking at Things (with New Pair of Glasses, that is)

I can’t remember the first time I walked in the little optical shop on Broadway near Belmont. I had popped into the eye glass place across the street but they didn’t have what I wanted. But with unrequested kindness and unexpected candor the clerk nodded to the shop across the way and said I might [...]

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