Howard and Susan Meyers's Blog

      Superbowl Sunday is traditionally the beginning of the new spring real estate season.   New listings are beginning to be rolled out and those that were temporarily taken off the market during the holiday season are starting to come back on.  In our North Shore Chicago market, we have seen ...

  There are reports that the Chicago area could receive between twelve and twenty-four inches of snow tomorrow through Wednesday.  This is northern Illinois.  We get lots of snow every winter.....but a storm of this ferocity is quite unusual.  We have had warnings of this magnitude in recent yea...

According to a press release quoted in Inman News: http://www.inman.com/news/2011/01/10/ziprealty-shutter-offices-in-11-markets  Zip Realty has announced that they are withdrawing from eleven markets around the country because “our assumptions for growth in those markets had not been met."  Furth...

    Today someone asked me how many homes are on the market in Winnetka.  Being a stats junkie, (try not to snore) I usually have a pretty good idea of the number of single family homes for sale in Winnetka.  Then she mentioned that it seem as though 20% of the existing single family homes are f...

This is being written in response to a featured blog about discussions regarding the possible elimination of the mortgage interest tax deduction.                                   This got us thinking about the anti-tax movement  and the impact they're having on the upcoming election. First, I wa...