The February 2008 issue of Chicago Magazine (currently on newsstands) includes BairdWarner.com as one of 171 Great Chicago Web Sites. Regarding BairdWarner.com, the article states, “Almost every real estate site these days lets visitors search property listings from the Multiple Listing Service. The search tool at BairdWarner.com is the best, with a nifty Google Maps […]

Friday I showed houses in Elmhurst, Oak Park and the Galewood Neighborhood of Chicago to a gentleman. When we entered one of the houses in Elmhurst, I noticed a radio playing. I’ve shown homes before when music was playing in the background, but a minute later it occurred to me why music was playing in […]

Next Wednesday, February 6, the Chicago City Council will vote on a plan to increase the buyer transfer tax by 40%! Currently, Chicago home buyers pay $7.50 tax per $1,000 of value. On a $400,000 purchase this amounts to $3,000 (7.5 * 400). If the tax increase is approved, the tax on the same home […]

Yesterday I showed houses for sale in Naperville to a couple. At this point, they don’t have a preference for a specific area of Naperville, so we looked at houses in several parts of Naperville. Naperville continues to be a very popular Chicago suburb as evidenced by the rise in median house prices in 2007 […]

Wednesday I attended a presentation by real estate attorney, Richard Laubenstein (shown left), with Di Monte & Lizak, LLC. Richard’s presentation, “Short Sales and Sun Tans”, showed the similarities between handling short sales (see my post “Short Sales are Anything But“) and lessons Richard learned watching “Baywatch“. Who knew that David Hasselhoff could help me […]