North Shore Views

 It seems like just yesterday that it was a buyer’s market here on Chicago’s North Shore: lots of homes to choose from, plenty of time to consider the options, the ability to negotiate hard with desperate sellers, the possibility of scoring a deal with a low-ball offer.But those days are gone. No...

Once or twice a year I like to get really granular with the data and go to the neighborhood level to get a good picture of what’s going on in a given community. Wilmette is among the more diverse communitities when it comes to housing stock, with prices generally going up as you travel west to ea...

North Shore Real Estate Data - January 2013 For the first month of the year North Shore home sales decined 7% from January of 2012. After months of positive trends you may be worried that the housing market recovery has stalled. What’s really going on is that there are plenty of buyers out there ...

Five Reasons Why You Can't Find a House to Buy on the North Shore January home sales on the North Shore were down 7% from a year ago after a year where home sales rose 17%. What’s going on? Is the recovery stalling again? Probably not. One month of data does not a trend make. Lower sales activity...

New Construction in Glencoe IL This beautiful new construction is waiting to become your dream home!  Just listed by the Come Home North Shore team, the house will be built on a fabulous property on one of the loveliest streets in Glencoe. Scheduled to be ready by spring 2014, everything about t...

There’s a right way to go about finding a home on the North Shore, and there’s a wrong way. Unfortunately, most people go about it the wrong way, putting the proverbial cart before the horse. And sometimes they make a home purchase decision they live to regret.The Wrong Way to Find a Home on the ...

Something we get asked a lot when we work with buyers relocating to the North Shore is, “Where are the grocery stores?” Since we don’t have a lot of strip malls on the North Shore where you normally find the large chains, it’s not always obvious where to go to buy groceries. So we prepared this h...

New Trier Real Estate Trends All signs point to a strengthening of the housing market in New Trier Township (which is made up of Wilmette, Winnetka, Northfield, Kenilworth and Glencoe). Sales are up. Market time is down. Homes are selling closer to list price. The only lagging indictor is price, ...

It's that time of year where everyone makes their predictions about the coming year. I’m not any better at predicting the future than anyone else, but I do read and study the economic reports and compare their conclusions to my own analysis of local market conditions. Here’s where I come out on ...

For the first time in a couple of winters it's actually cold enough to make ice outdoors. There are lots of outdoor rinks or ponds on the North Shore. Almost every park district has at least one; but (except for the rinks at Watts Ice Center, which are refrigerated), none have been operational si...