Add $30 to the cost of selling your Chicago home

Add $30 to the cost of selling your Chicago home

The City of Chicago has raised the fee for a Certificate of Zoning Compliance from $90 to $120, effective January 1, 2013. The certificate “is [...]
Check out Chicago Magazine’s Real Estate Look Book

Check out Chicago Magazine’s Real Estate Look Book

Chicago Magazine's Real Estate Look Book is a multi-media advertising program for luxury homes that combines print, online, e-mail and social medi [...]
Want a 30-year loan on a new car?

Want a 30-year loan on a new car?

If the question is posed the way it is in the headline, most consumers would immediately say “hell, no.” A 30-year car loan is the net effect o [...]

Quote of the day: Worn down by open houses

"I had enough. That whole morning we would spend cleaning up, tidying things, and that was time we couldn't spend playing with him...At some point, af [...]

Selling in 2011 — one brokerage’s advice

Joe Zekas visited a local brokerage's sales meeting this morning and brought back a market report delivered to agents from the brokerage's president a [...]
Tis the week before Christmas and there are open houses

Tis the week before Christmas and there are open houses

Prior to the real estate bust, Los Angeles Realtors held nearly full open house schedules on Christmas weekend, and even on Christmas day. Tha [...]

The king of the $1 reduction?

The weekend's almost here, and Realtors once again are vying for buyers' attention. After spending the morning searching for more stupid Realtor trick [...]
A fresh approach to selling gut rehabs and new construction homes in Chicago

A fresh approach to selling gut rehabs and new construction homes in Chicago

Last month Greg Rose of Fresh Horizon Realty talked to Joe Zekas about how his brokerage differs from other local real estate companies when it come [...]
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