Howard and Susan Meyers's Blog

We’d Like to “Add Value” in Certain Areas...But We Can’t The way that we try to differentiate ourselves from other agents to our buying clients is to provide “added value” to their total transaction process. We do this is many ways including but not limited to:   Our knowledge of the current inve...

The Statistic that Concerns us Most Yes, we’re numbers people.  We like to use statistics to tell a story.  Of course they’re open to interpretation and misrepresentation, but they sure beat “seat of the pants” analysis.  As real estate professionals on the North Shore, we try to pay close attent...

Will This Be The Last  Big Box “Black Friday”?As Thanksgiving approaches, the annual frenzy of anticipation for Black Friday is building.  Shoppers will be out in full force searching for bargains.  The major “big box”  stores have taken a cue from the states arranging their Republican Presidenti...

Renter’s Dilemma...Why Buy The Cow....? Many of the people considering renting in today’s market are taking the old cliche to heart...why buy the cow when the milk is free?   On the North Shore, from a short term cash flow perspective, they are right.  When you evaluate the total out-of-pocket ex...

We Can Help We pride ourselves on listening to our buying clients on the North Shore.  We try to incorporate everything you tell us about what type of home you are looking for.  We listen to your priorities in regard to location (Winnetka vs. Glencoe vs. Northfield), or neighborhoods (Hubbard Woo...

The inventory of homes for sale on the North Shore has shrunk   There are fewer showings for each listing, but the buyers who are looking at homes are SERIOUS buyers   North Shore home prices have fallen much more in line with reality   Interest rates continue to be at/or near record lows (photo ...

The “Consumer is the Beneficiary of the Real Estate Revolution”   (photo courtesy of heyjudegallery) The internet has proven to be the ultimate destroyer of inefficiencies in EVERYTHING.  Through blogging, it has allowed the “little guy” to have an audience that rivals international news gatherin...

The Most Important Chart You’ll Ever See The one concept which has been proven to be most difficult to share with both our actual listing clients as well as for those people for whom we provide market evaluations, is that “listing your North Shore home at a lower, “on the market” price will get y...

All I Really Needed to Know I Learned From My Dentist Although going to the dentist is not on the “Top Ten” list of things that any of us like to do, it is a necessary evil.  Many years ago, as a young, seemingly invulnerable person, I asked my dentist the question that he probably had heard seve...

We have read a few blogs recently which discussed the concept of “the best values in the North Shore market” being the homes that have been reduced the greatest from the original listing price.  We think this is “hogwash”.Many buyers are viewing these as the “real” bargains in the market.   There...