Chicago Real Estate Statistics: Porker’s Index
Harper’s Index has always been one of my favorite sources for trivia. I’ve nicked their format once before and it was a blast. Since Friday is the day when I count things for you it’s time I return to...
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Reality TV Week: House Hunters
Is it real? Is it Memorex? Does it matter? What’s 12 years old and follows a very familiar architecture that we’ve all come to know and love? No, not your parents’ McMansion – it’s “House Hunters” on...
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I figure you guys could use a weekly break from my yammering so I’ll be doing links on the weekends. Don’t know if this will continue forever but it’s worth a shot. The Future is now: The Illinois...
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Weekend Links for August 11, 2012
Finding apartments as an expat is rarely simple, as this roundup of guides and personal accounts will attest. This year has been big for working with clients who are moving to Chicago from elsewhere....
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Weekend Links: August 18, 2012
No themes or schemes for this installment of the weekend links. The Green Roof on Chicago’s City Hall. [via CityofChicago.org]It’s not easy being green. WBEZ looks into the success rate of Chicago’s...
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If Homes were Marketed Like Apple Products
PC Operating System Market Share, March 2012 The Core of the Matter With 31% of the smartphone market,[1] 66% of the tablet market[2] and 6.7% share of the very splintered and entrenched desktop...
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Anatomy of a Showing: Is Same-Day OK?
The matter of booking showings with very short notice has come up several times with my clients lately, so I thought I should address it for everyone. With the recent holidays the time required for...
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Rental Site Review: SearchChicago.com
There’s a ton of sites you can use to look for apartments in Chicago. Not all of them are fabulous. Most have a mash-up of private landlords, locator services, realtor listings and fake/scam rental...
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Square footage, room counts and other lies my agent told me
Back in 2007 I received an interesting email from a local landlord in response to one of my Craigslist ads for an apartment: Just a word of advice, if you say it's 930 square feet no one is going to...
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Buying in 2013? Here’s what to expect.
I don’t really spend much time talking about the home buying market. There’s plenty of folks who write well about that side of the business. I feel that renters and landlords are somewhat under-served,...
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