Dean's Team Chicago Real Estate Blog
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2008
Hi, folks! Hope you're well!Our Team members,Jeff Ardito and Kathleen Weaver-Zech, lost a listing the other day. It was for a small, three-unit apartment building in the Chicago Neighborhood of Jefferson Park. The successful agent has made a living in the area by discounting his fees, signing ...
04/22/2008
Good Morning, Everyone!Here's the latest Stat Summary on the Chicago Real Estate Market, based on data pulled yesterday evening, April 20, 2008 -Rebounds in Sold Units, Sales Volume, and a nealy 22% drop in Average Market Time might be a good omen for the Spring market here in Chicago. This was ...
04/21/2008
It's a beautiful, sun-filled, Sunday afternoon here in Chicago. Hope it's nice today where you are!BTW - the Cubs are winning - AGAIN!According to Economy.com, the local Housing Affordability Index is in balance when the median income earner in a given market area, with at least a 20% down payme...
04/20/2008
Morning, everyone!Although the real estate market here in Chicago seems to have picked up a bit in the last couple of weeks, in several neighborhoods and many suburbs, it is clear around here that things are not like they used to be in a typical Spring real estate market.On beautiful city and sub...
04/19/2008
THE CHICAGO IL REAL ESTATE MARKET, AND OTHER THINGS CHICAGO, FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A LITTLE WHITE DOG!It's not every day you find a 120-pound Mountain Lion, or Cougar, prancing the streets of a major city. In Chicago, as a matter of fact, there has never been such a sighting, since the cit...
04/18/2008
For 20 years on the North Side of Chicago, near the intersection of North and Clybourn Avenues, the Goose Island Brewery has been serving up pub fare, and great craft beer - some of it brewed right on the premises. It's been one of Chicago's oldest and most popular brew pubs (not counting, of co...
04/17/2008
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Good Evening, Nighthawks! Cubs Win tonight! Here on the Northside of Chciago - we're happy!Folks, I'm just a layman - we don't do any fancy photo effects, turn day into night, or vice versa, put pigs heads on people, or even remove myself from the reflection in my client's bathroom mirror, or m...
04/16/2008
Unless you're checking in this morning from a Major Oil Producting Country, you already know the price of a gallon of gasoline has risen dramatically since January, 2007. Through the end of last year, prices were up 31%, on average, nationwide - to an average of $2.94 at the end of December, fro...
04/16/2008
We're unsure if this has anything to do with simple LUCK, or the way our market here has behaved over the last few years. However, while foreclosures increased 57% nationally, year-to-year, between March, 2007 and March, 2008, the increase here in Chicago, and throughout Illinois, was a far mor...
04/16/2008
Good Morning, All!Here's the latest Stat Summary on the Chicago Real Estate Market, based on data pulled yesterday evening, April 13, 2008 -Drops in Sold Units, Expired Listings and Sales Volume generally occur during weeks in the middle of the month - but the drop in Volume this past week was ve...
04/14/2008
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