Dean's Team Chicago Real Estate Blog

Is the Chicago Area Real Estate Market beginning to show signs of stabilizing? Improving numbers for year-over-year Units Sold - the aggregate for sold condos and single-family homes across the Chicago Metro Area - has been on the upswing since last July.  As a result, this resurgent Second Half,...

Good Evening, from Chicago! This week's edition of Chicago Neighborhood News, from our Team Member Cathy Mallers, is full of juicy information from the Chicago Neighborhoods of Portage Park, Lakeview, The Loop, Lincoln Square and North Center, as well as the Chicago Suburb of Oak Park IL. Got som...

THE CHICAGO IL REAL ESTATE MARKET, AND OTHER THINGS CHICAGO, FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A LITTLE WHITE DOG! Hey, you dogs!  You know, getting around Chicago, I try to take Public Transportation as much as I can.  Often times, however, riding the Chicago Transit Authority Buses or El Trains, I have...

Live in Chicago?  You know, during a Cold Chicago Winter, heating bills can go through the roof.   Especially if you have an older home, with 1920's-era insulation. Four winters ago, during a spell when Natural Gas Prices spiked here in Chicago, one of our January gas heating bills topped at $640...

Did you watch the Internationally-Televised "Hope for Haiti" Telethon  last Friday night? Aired on all local Chicago broadcast outlets, major cable stations, and simulcast on major Internet sites like YouTube and others, most consider the program tasteful, well done.  It was also very successful,...

Hey gang - from the North Side of Chicago! What's going on with the NY Jets and the Indianapolis Colts?  Thought the Colts would run away with this game, but it's pretty nip and tuck.  Let's see! If you've sold for any length time, I'm sure someone has come up to you with an "incredible opportuni...

Good Evening from Chicago, folks! Looking for something to do around Our Town this weekend?  Dean's Team Member Sue Moss provides a summary - Billed as the largest show of its kind here in the Midwest, the Chicago Boat, RV & Outdoor Show, now in its 80th year, rolled into McCormick Place (2301 S....

Greetings from Livonia MI, and the 2010 Floyd Wickman Winter Forum, due to begin this evening.  Gotta be there for the Awards Ceremony tonight - our Team is winning a Production Award for High Sales Volume last year! Back home in Chicago, our Team Member Cathy Mallers brings us this week's editio...

THE CHICAGO IL REAL ESTATE MARKET, AND OTHER THINGS CHICAGO, FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A LITTLE WHITE DOG! Good Morning, you dogs!   We hit the road yesterday, and I now report from tropical Livonia MI, a suburb of Detroit.  We're here to see our longtime human friend and mentor Floyd Wickman, al...

You drive in Chicago? If you do, each winter and into spring, you would see why many refer to the City of Chicago as "Pothole Central, U.S.A."  Each year, the notorious freeze-thaw cycle inherent in a typical Chicago winter wreaks havoc on the road surfaces of most of the 3,800 miles of arterial ...