With all the positive housing news in the media lately you would think that distressed home sales are not an issue. A quick search on my MLS for a 10 mile radius of my office showed over 100 bank owned property listed. Short sales were even less with only 70 showing in a 10 mile radius. Aurora
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02/25/2016
Just got home from a meeting with a client and opened up my NAR newsletter to find out how sales are doing across the nation. One article caught my attention immediately....the average agent in Knoxville, TN does 120 sales a year!!! Dang! How many agents are in Knoxville? How many brokerages?
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02/25/2016
As prices slowly continue to go up where can a buyer find a single family detached home for under $100,000 in the Auroraland area? Currently there are only 29 homes under $100K in Aurora IL which has some of the more affordable housing stock in the area. Montgomery, IL has 2 homes under $100K a
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02/23/2016
As a local real estate agent in Oswego, IL I am always glad when either a business or in this case, one of our local Public High School gets on a "Top" list! So kudos and congratulations to Oswego East High School for being named #86 in a recent K12Niche list. Keep the momentum going and reach f
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02/23/2016
It seems we have lists for everything and as homeowners and potential home buyers, how the local schools compare if you have children is one of the criteria that you need to do your homework on.A company named - K12Niche.com has come out with a top 100 Best Public High Schools and some of our loc
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02/22/2016
Across the country home sales are looking really good but as we try to tell people, real estate is always a "local" issue. Whether its headlines touting "Home Prices Increase in 2015" or "Distressed Home Sales Inventory Dropped", you have to come down to "your state, your town and even your neig
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02/21/2016
Could it be that Naperville's home prices have reached their peak? If you look at the latest statistics from MRED (the local MLS for the area), it looks like overall they have from 2014. The median home price stayed the same in 2015 at $410,000 while the average home price dropped .07% to $445,
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02/21/2016
By any chance did you get a marketing piece saying home prices are up 20% in some areas? Well, as much as I would love to say that Oswego IL home prices appreciated that much the truth is a bit different.According to YTD 2015 market statiscs put out by MRED (local MLS) home prices in Oswego IL o
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02/21/2016
Hard to believe that we are already 2.5 months into 2016! Where did the time go? Only in Chicagoland can we experience 30 - 40 degree change in temperature in the same week!For those in Aurora, IL that wondered how single family detached homes sales ended up in 2015 I have terrific news for you
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02/18/2016
Can you believe that we are already in February! Many home sellers are jumping the traditional "spring market" and listing their homes NOW! In Oswego, IL we have eleven homeowners that have listed their homes in the last seven days!With only 133 available single family homes for sale...what do
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02/04/2016
