We leave our fingerprints. Whether it is the Chicago real estate market or anywhere else where homes are being sold (or at least listed in the hope of being sold), we leave our fingerprints.
Meaning what? Meaning there is a record of what was paid and when it was paid. There are tax records that reflect the amount of and number of loans of any home in the Chicago market. There is google for the "depth-charging" researchers to figure out if someone has gotten a new job or lost their old one. Some folks will even trace the thread back toward relationships, marriages and their possible fractures.
But perhaps the simplest fingerprint relates to a the listing history of a property in the Chicago real estate market.
In one sense the Chicago real estate market is to me like a crossword puzzle. There are clues, answers, repetitions, stumpers, and daily doses to keep me on my toes. Without intending to pucker my lips too much to blow my own horn too loudly, nary a day passes when I am not filling the blanks of the so-called puzzle, tracking properties, noticing price changes, welcoming new properties and seeing what has sold and for how much.
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