Dean's Team Chicago Real Estate Blog

Hey, Zillow - the world-famous Computer-Modeled Home Valuation and Promotion Website? You hear me?  Do ya? I think we have a problem here!  Really, we do! And it is steaming me more than the 90-degree Chicago temperatures this afternoon! Tell us why - yes, why - our listings via Zillow now each h...

Good Afternoon from Chicago, folks! In this week's installment of Chicago Neighborhood News, our Team Member Cathy Mallers covers the Chicago Neighborhoods of Norwood Park, Lakeview, South Loop, Gold Coast, as well as the Chicago Suburb of Evanston IL. Got something going on, in any Chicago Neigh...

Did the Fed Homebuyer's Credit, for First Time Buyers and Select Repeat Buyers, which expired the end of April, bolster the Real Estate Market?   Has its expiration thrown the market, in Chicago and elsewhere, into the doldrums? One measuring stick, the number of Residential Loan Applications, fe...

Good Sunday Evening, folks, from Hot & Steamy Chicago! It's nearly 90 degrees, but they are still playing hockey in Chicago.  Our beloved Chicago Blackhawks have swept the near-equal San Jose Sharks into the Stanley Cup Finals.  That's the first time in 18 years we have made it this far in NHL Ho...

Encouraging news for Chicago Home Sellers?  Perhaps! According to The PMI Group, a major provider of Private Mortgage Insurance for low-down-payment loans, the Chicago Metro Area is "most improved" among the 50 Top U.S. Metro Areas during the Fourth Quarter, 2009. The story reported by Mary Umber...

Cook County IL Tax Assessments!  Homeowners here in the Chicago Area BLOW THEIR TOPS when they receive their bills, especially each Fall, when the oft-larger second of two semi-annual installments become due. The Cook County Tax Assessors Office uses a complicated formula of Tax Rate Multipliers,...

Here in IL, if you were adopted as a child, finding your birth parents identities has often been hit and miss.  Often, the process requires considerable research, without a positive outcome. One of the reasons - statewide, all adoption cases, and original birth certificates showing the biological...

Good Afternoon, folks! With the "unofficial" kick-off of summer arriving next weekend, it's "festival" time again in Chicago this weekend!  And, as an added bonus, the weather should be cooperating, if our weather reporters are correct with their predictions. Here's our Team Member Sue Moss, and ...

THE CHICAGO IL REAL ESTATE MARKET, AND OTHER THINGS CHICAGO, FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A LITTLE WHITE DOG! Hey, you dogs!  OK . . . who is a Hockey Fan?  I bleed Cubbie Blue as quickly as any native Chicago Dog - but, now, we seem to have a New Sports Passion around our town - The Mighty Chicago ...

THE CHICAGO IL REAL ESTATE MARKET, AND OTHER THINGS CHICAGO, FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A LITTLE WHITE DOG! Hey, hey, you dogs! You know, most of the canines that know me do not consider me a religious lil' dog!  Haven't been in a church, synagogue, or other place of worship in nearly two years no...