From the monthly archives:

May 2007

Do Buyer Agents Know Your Corner Unit is a Corner Unit?

May 31, 2007

Today I searched for 2 bedroom condos in the Loop, Near North Side, Near West Side and Near South Side for a Microsoft employee relocating here from Seattle. Loving lots of light in her home, she has a strong preference for a corner unit. So when I started searching for her last week, I specified [...]

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University Village Neighborhood Map

May 29, 2007

Last week a couple and I checked out condos in the University Village Neighborhood in the Near West Side area of Chicago. There seems to be a lot of disagreement on the neighborhood’s borders. Some real estate websites describe the borders as Monroe and Roosevelt on the north and south with Halsted and Western on [...]

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Commissions When a Buyer and Seller Use the Same Real Estate Broker

May 26, 2007

I received an email from a reader, Pete, this week asking about commissions when the listing agent and buyer’s agent both work for the same real estate broker. Pete wondered if the commission the seller pays would be adjustable in such a situation. Mostly likely, no, for several reasons, Pete.
The real estate broker still [...]

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Best Real Estate Blog in Illinois!

May 24, 2007

Yesterday the nice folks at Mortgage Finders Network named this blog the Best Real Estate Blog in Illinois! It’s quite a compliment in light of all the other real estate blogs in Illinois.
Real estate blogging has changed a lot since I started blogging January 1, 2006. Back then very few other Realtors were blogging and [...]

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Finding Grocery Stores in the Chicago Metro Area

May 22, 2007

Yesterday 2 different gentlemen contacted me about condos in Lakeview. One lives in Michigan and is thinking of relocating to Boystown. The other used to live in Lakeview, moved to the suburbs and now wants to come back to Lakeview. The second gentleman mentioned that he ideally wanted a place close to the Jewel Grocery [...]

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Aurora vs. Naperville

May 20, 2007

This morning I showed houses in Aurora and Naperville. My buyers got a good idea of the amount of house you get in the same price range in the far west side of Aurora (west of Orchard Rd.) vs. the northeast side of Aurora (east of Eola Rd.) vs. the northwest part of Naperville (west [...]

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I’ll Be More Careful When Recommending Real Estate Attorneys!

May 18, 2007

This has not been one of my more pleasant days. I let a real estate attorney that I had recommended to a couple of clients know that I wouldn’t be recommending her anymore.
I had used the attorney for some personal business. She mentioned that she did real estate law, so I recommended her.
The first client [...]

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Edgewater Beach Neighborhood in Chicago

May 15, 2007

While checking out videos on YouTube.Com, I came across the video below by YoChicago about the Edgewater Beach Neighborhood in Chicago. The neighborhood is in the southeast part of the Edgewater area of Chicago, just east of the Andersonville neighborhood. It’s bordered by Hollywood and Foster on the north and south and Sheridan and Broadway [...]

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Mount Prospect House Prices Down, But the Food’s Still Good!

May 13, 2007

Yesterday I showed houses in Mount Prospect and Niles. The median and average sale prices for houses in Mount Prospect in the past 3 months were $370K and $386K. This is above 2005 levels which were $352K and $367K, but below 2006 prices at $383K and $414K for the same time period.
Mount Prospect has a [...]

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Metra Express Trains

May 10, 2007

So you have a job in the Loop, but you’re looking to buy a home in the suburbs. You figure out how far out from Chicago you’ll have to live to be able to afford the amount of home you want – generally the farther out, the more home you get for the money. Then [...]

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