So what will the Chicago's spring real estate market bring this year? More of the same? Or perhaps a freeing up and dislodging of pent up demand? I'd like to say that we will know more after today's round of open houses but the deep chill, accumulated snow and slippery walkways may hinder some fo
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01/10/2010
[View the post in original format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] Pity me not as I cross my legs at a bistro table near the Cancun airport, delaying the inevitable return to my Chicago home by one more day. And please feel not a need to mock me as I don colorful shorts that pleasantly match a
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01/04/2010
[View this post in original setting at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] Walking beach side yesterday Jackson and I talked about one of our favorite water themes - "Nemo." Not the Nemo associated with Jules Verne, but the one associated with dvds that play in endless loops on wide screen tvs in Chi
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01/02/2010
It started, as often things do, with a single word. Actually it wasn't so much of a word as it was a sound. In fact it wasn't a sound so much as it was a scream. And it came from my wife. And it happened after a watermelon decided to heave and sigh and hiss and slowly sputter its innards through
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12/31/2009
[See this post in its orginal format at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] Empathy, as I understand it, is my ability to feel somebody else's pain. More often than not I am adept at feeling empathy. But earlier today I came face to face with an instance where I simply couldn't do it. It came in the
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12/28/2009
The weather? Frightful. But my obligation was to field phone calls this morning at my office at Clybourn and North. So with the Droid alarm chirping through my cotton-infused pate this morning I made my way southbound to serve as the online expert to house hunters and condo seekers participating
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12/19/2009
The auction team came last week. Mostly men, mainly white. Their hands showed the markings of occasional manicures. And they had a propensity to stand with feet splayed, arms crossed, hooking their thumbs in the crook of the opposing arm. Chewing mints as they nodded, always looking away from the
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11/21/2009
Back in the day the best reads in the Chicago papers came on Thursdays or Fridays when Roger Ebert was presented with a really bad movie. One of the finest of film reviewers in America, Ebert was at his best (and funniest) when he had a chance to sharpen his pencil and scribble notes about the wh
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11/20/2009
Synchronicity? When apparently unrelated things occur. But when all is said and done it turns out that the things weren't all that unrelated after all. I thought of synchronicity today. It turns out The Elysian in Chicago has decided to rescind contracts for 130 or so hotel condos at the property
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11/16/2009
[Original blog post at The Real Estate Lounge Chicago] In as much time as it takes to send an email the folks at Lincoln Park 2520 have boosted their sales from 50% to 74% of the massive new construction luxury project located in Chicago's toney Lincoln Park neighborhood. How, in a market as co
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07/23/2009
