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News from the Chicago market: Home sales up, Block 37 changes hands, and a builder group files for C
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Posted 11/23/2009 by Joseph Askins If you don't subscribe to our Chicago Real Estate News feed, you may have missed these stories from the past few days: Home sales in Chicago were up 33 percent in October ...

NewHomeNotebook.com An oft-asked question...
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Matt Garrison, founder of the Matt Garrison Group and CondoShark.com, recently launched ShoreShark.com. CondoShark reports major price discounts in popular Chicago neighborhoods, and ShoreShark covers Chicago's North Shore commnities. ...

NewHomeNotebook.com Does staging make a difference? See the before and after here http://bit.ly/8Xfowd
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Staging has, of late, taken on increasing importance in real estate marketing. Several weeks ago Prudential Rubloff agent Francesca Rose and I shot video of a unit at ParkView Condominiums prior to its being staged. ...

NewHomeNotebook.com The gap slowly narrows...
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Posted 11/18/2009 by Joseph Askins Price discounts are becoming more publicly advertised, although developers remain concerned about the ripple effects. Several buildings have undergone substantial re-pricing of their entire unsold inventory in order to quicken the sellout of the building. ...

NewHomeNotebook.com 4500 square feet of Chicago views - check it out...
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Join us for a tour of a 4 bedroom, 3 bath home. At 4,500 square feet and $1,895,000, it's the largest and highest-priced home currently for sale at Lake Point Tower in Chicago. The basics, however, don't clue you in to the spectacular wraparound views from the sprawling living areas of this unit. .....

NewHomeNotebook.com Two successful south loop auctions on Sunday. Read the posts at http://newhomenotebook.com
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Sheldon Good & Company conducted an auction of Motor Row Lofts units earlier today at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Chicago. In the video an owner at Motor Row Lofts gives his take on the auction and on the development. ...

NewHomeNotebook.com The outlier...
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Posted 11/13/2009 by Joseph Askins You've got to admit it's getting better for nine of the 10 states hit hardest by foreclosures. Want to guess who the outlier is? According to the AP, the spike from September ...

NewHomeNotebook.com -Matt Garrison of the Matt Garrison Group and CondoShark.com, talked to Erin Burnett on CNBC's Street Signs Tuesday on the Return of the High-end?
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Posted 11/12/2009 by Joseph Askins Well, (luxury homes) are definitely moving, but they’re not moving at the pace that’s going to burn off the inventory anytime soon, in my opinion, and that’s one of the problems. ...

NewHomeNotebook.com New Home Notebook has introduced a program where brokers and agents take us on a tour of their listings, appropriately called 'New Listing Tour'. Take a tour through this vintage co-op on Fullerton Parkway, across from the park.
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Saying "they don't build them like this any more" is an old cliché, but one with a solid kernel of truth. The gracious room sizes, separation of formal and informal spaces and sheer livability you find in grand vintage co-ops are not often matched in newer construction. ...

NewHomeNotebook.com Sage advice for buyers in older buildings anywhere...
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Many of the loft buildings on West Wabansia Avenue in Bucktown have seen exterior work of one form or another in the past year. David Wolf of @properties uses this as a jumping-off point to discuss the ...

NewHomeNotebook.com Agent's Choice Awards - Favorite suburban development - check it out...
Mill Creek voted favorite new suburban development - New Home Notebook – New homes & condos in Chica
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Shodeen Residential’s Mill Creek in Geneva was selected the “Favorite Overall New Development—Suburbs” by Chicago Agent Magazine at its 2009 Agent’s Choice Awards ceremony held at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago in early November. ...

Don MacKnight Jr. Taking investors to the next level!

NewHomeNotebook.com Shore shark...
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Posted 11/10/2009 by Joseph Askins Thus far in the housing market meltdown Chicago’s West Lawn neighborhood has been the poster child for foreclosures. In the past few weeks, real estate agents have been ...

NewHomeNotebook.com Get the 'angle' on lofts in Bucktown...
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David Wolf of @properties takes Joe Askins of YoChicago.com past a few of Bucktown's many loft developments. Many of these industrial buildings were adapted into residential lofts in the 1990s and 2000s.


























