All the Moo's that's fit to print

 We're curious. We've always been that way.We like to check out neighborhoods and see what folks are up to. There is always some street we haven't been down recently and we are going to take it. It's a natural curiosity that pays dividends when you are in this business. I frequently get stopped b...

Our first home purchase - "The Life of the Unrepresented Buyer"  1985 We looked at a couple of condos alongside the El tracks in Chicago... nice places, great complexes close to everything... we were assured that we would "get used to the train" the screeching, the rumbling, the shaking... At $48...

Holy Cow! What a week! Bookended with holidays, family (and just a little business...) it was tough keeping up, there were so many wonderful posts and so many great ideas it was fun to look over the notes, bookmarks and saved files for my first week in review. Being that it's the first time that ...

Remembering those that give...   I've been to New Orleans many times...  This time was different... the city was still reeling from Katrina and fighting to come back... they were glad we (NAR) were there, but it was different than before. I've had cause to reflect on this as a Naperville custom h...

The Village of Oswego was a sleepy little farming community along the Fox River not so long ago. These days housing developments are the crop growing from those farms. The downtown area is small and quaint, but is starting to wake to it's own natural charm of being a river city. As the developmen...

The Village of Plainfield has enjoyed rapid growth over the past decade and is hotbed of residential real estate activity. In the current market sales have slowed, but still remain strong. Heavy new construction is the flavor of the day, with developments growing where the corn used to. Plainfiel...

OK they both look like townhomes... they've got their own entrance, nobody above or below them, attached garage etc... yet one is a townhouse and the other is a condo.What does it really mean? We use the term "townhouse" loosely to describe a style of attached home, yet in a more specific sense.....

Realtor.com is an advertising site. The properties are used to draw you in so that they can build ads around the listings... this makes the site painfully slow. Realtor.com is an opt-in site missing a lot of data... it is notoriously out of date and doesn't let you know if a property is under con...

 The charts below show the strength of Naperville's attached housing market. Not just on the lower end but Naperville's Luxury Condo & Townhome  market too. As is typical in a softer marketplace... the total # of units are down, while the average price has risen considerably. During 2006 There we...

I mentioned in a previous post that Naperville's Luxury Home Market has actually increased in volume over the last year... bucking all current trends. With sales up over 28% for the year, there are still a lot of fantastic homes to be had at advantageous terms. Great opportunities are there for b...