Category: Real estate business
Truly strange real estate videos
Would you like to watch a video of a mortgage broker / real estate agent reading a census report for ZIP code 60614?
Daniel Sullivan thinks you wou [...]
How a FSBO gets on the MLS
An ex-employee, who's selling his own condo, e-mailed asking for recommendations on how to get his property in the multiple listing service.
I was sc [...]
1st Chicago agents syndicate free Housing Newswire content
Robert Darrow and Steve West, of @properties, are the first Chicago real estate agents to incorporate news from the nifty new wire service, HousingNew [...]
Livin' large on E Lake Shore: The Mayfair's $8 million record breaker
And the granddaddy of all downtown condo sales, at least for now, is...drum roll please...an $8 million condo on the 18th floor of The Mayfair, 189 E [...]
Livin' large on E Lake Shore: $6.2M unit for sale at The Breakers
Earlier this week, we mentioned that a nearly $5 million condo available at 209 E Lake Shore Dr ranks among the priciest homes on the exclusive stri [...]
Livin' large on E Lake Shore: The Drake Tower turntable
Our tour of properties on E Lake Shore Dr kicks off with the Drake Tower, a co-op that's neighbor to the world-famous Drake Hotel. Built from 1928 t [...]
Livin' large on East Lake Shore Drive
Lake Shore Drive only runs north-south, you say? You could be forgiven for missing E Lake Shore (it's only about two blocks, or eight buildings wide), [...]
Arlington Heights broker tour highlights
What's a broker tour? It's agent-to-agent marketing: weekday open houses usually open only to real estate agents, and showcasing only the newest listi [...]
The easy – or sleazy – way to buy a loft
We've noticed a trend lately for real estate agents to use their Web sites to imply that they have listings in buildings when, in fact, they don't. Th [...]
Real estate commissions under siege
Brad Inman points out that real estate commissions come under attack every few years, contends that it's happening now, offers 10 reasons why it might [...]
@properties opens office in !$#@%* Streeterville!
Sure it's annoying that they chose the @ symbol instead of real letters for their company name, but there's no denying that @properties has quickly be [...]