12/6/10
Last week we introduced you to Coldwell Banker agent Mike McCurry, who explained why many people choose to live in Clarendon Hills in lieu...
12/3/10
Joe Zekas and Coldwell Banker‘s Mike McCurry begin their drive around Clarendon Hills by looking at the village’s compact downtown and its locally-owned shops....
12/2/10
Clarendon Hills is a small community in Chicago’s western suburbs, adjacent to its better-known neighbor, Hinsdale. In this first part of our introduction to...
11/23/10
A question on the minds of many home sellers as Thanksgiving approaches is whether they should take their home off the market during the...
11/16/10
According to Redfin, 204 single-family homes, townhomes, and condos have closed in Chicago in the past seven days. Here are a few fast facts...
11/12/10
Earlier this week, Niko Apostal of Coldwell Banker and the Apostal Group showed me around one of his newest listings, a 4,400 square-foot corner...
11/10/10
Over a span of 30 years, Lincoln Park developers refined the art of townhome planning and design. By the mid-Nineties, when The Pointe was...
11/9/10
According to the Tribune, The lowest combined tax rate in the county this year is in north suburban Northfield, where property values are high....
11/8/10
Over time, Frank DeNovi’s business has evolved considerably, to the point that he now orchestrates a team of trained office and field employees who...
11/5/10
In the 1990s MCL Companies transformed the former site of Augustana Hospital into The Pointe, one of Lincoln Park’s signature developments. The 150 single-family...
11/1/10
A typical real estate agent lacks a mission statement and a succession plan, making it difficult for lenders to be confident in hiring his...
10/25/10
Foreclosures, once unheard of in higher-end properties, are now common. That places an entirely new set of demands on REO specialists, not all of...
10/19/10
Mortgage lenders are in business to loan money, and would like the opportunity to “recapture” the loan on properties they’ve taken ownership of in...
10/1/10
Coldwell Banker’s Andy Shiparski describes a new listing in Printers Row’s Donohue Building as a “stunning” timber / brick loft in the “New York...
9/29/10
Steve Klein, an REO manager for Coldwell Banker Realtor and REO specialist Frank DeNovi, sat down with YoChicago’s Joe Zekas earlier this month to...
9/28/10
The four-bedroom / two-bath home is “a size many buyers aspire to own,” says Coldwell Banker Real Estate CEO Jim Gillespie. In CNN /...
9/15/10
Congrats to our friend and client Frank DeNovi, who ranked 26th in the Wall Street Journal’s 2010 list of the nation’s top 400 real...
9/13/10
The typical real estate agent services a fairly narrow, generally geographic niche market. That narrow focus doesn’t work for REO specialists, whose client lenders...
9/7/10
When REO specialist Frank DeNovi receives a new property from one of his client lenders, he often has little more to go on than...
8/31/10
One of our company’s newest clients is Frank DeNovi, a Coldwell Banker agent who has worked with bank-owned properties for 25 years. We’re still...