Welcome to the Site for SW Chicago Suburbs
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Welcome to the blog/site for southwest suburban real estate and more. This easy-to-use site offers a link to a custom MLS search, listings, local information, news and more. Check out the categories to the right and the pages on the menus above and also to the right. |
April Favorites 2013
By · CommentsThere were a lot of posts for April about real estate in the southwest suburbs. Following are some of my favorites for the month:
Homer Glen Homes
Did you know that owners of Homer Glen homes can apply for an energy rebate up to $1,750? Check it out to see if you could save some cash with a rebate plus making your home more energy efficient.
Here is a great blog post that tells you how to search for Homer Glen homes for sale. There are multiple ways to search on this website created just for Homer Glen, IL.
Finally, there are two easy ways to see all of the newest homes in Homer Glen listings. You’ll see about a week’s worth of new listings in the popular village without having to do a search. This search will update itself automatically, so you’ll want to bookmark it to see what’s new.
Orland Park Homes
We’ve been busy with our new Orland Park real estate website. To start it off, here is a snapshot of Orland Park real estate statistics for 2012.
When you’re searching for homes in Orland Park, the Property Organizer will help you separate and organize different searches you’ve created, making it easy for you to keep track of your multiple searches.
There is a fun new search called the Orland Park Lifestyle search and there’s a couple ways to access it. Find out where different things are located, which might help you decide where you’d prefer to live in the village. This map search is more interactive than other online maps. Give it a try!
I love posting real estate statistics for my main service areas. These hyper-local stats don’t always match what you read online, in the news or magazines or see on TV. Check out some true and recent statistical comparisons of Orland Park homes and time on market.
April was a wet month and gave us two meanings for Orland Park homes underwater. An accompanying post is all about Orland Park short sales. Each of these articles
explains short sales and gives a link to see all short sale homes in Orland Park. The list updates itself so is another search to bookmark and come back to so you can keep up-to-date on short sale homes currently available. Most offer good value but you need to be very patient if you want to make an offer on one.
Northern Virginia and Washington D.C. has a hot real estate market and a local agent created a funny rap video about it. How does that compare to Orland Park real estate?
Oak Lawn Real Estate
I grew up in Oak Lawn starting at the age of 10. I show and sell a lot of Oak Lawn homes, but it was fun selling a home in my old neighborhood. In fact, it was the exact same style as the home I lived in and it was interesting to see how accurate my memory was.
Month of March 2013 – Favorite Blog Posts
By · CommentsI’m going to start putting links to my favorite blog posts from the prior month. I have multiple blogs and would like to share some of them.
Homer Glen Real Estate and News
There’s a new website for Homer Glen real estate and lifestyle and here are some of the posts for March:
- If you’re a resident of Homer Glen or other north Will County villages, you probably already know that a suit was finally filed to take over the water pipeline. We’re not sure if this would result in lower or higher water bills, but our Homer Glen water bills are high enough!
- Will County Board to vote on concealed carry gun laws - not Homer Glen specific but it will reflect on all of Will County, of which Homer Glen is part of.
- Village of Homer Glen in talks to widen 159th St. – I’m all for it!
- The average sales price of Homer Glen homes surpassed Orland Park for the first time in 2012!
Orland Park Real Estate and News
- See how Orland Park real estate compared in the amount of single family homes sold in 2012 to the other top 5 southwest suburbs – click here.
Oak Lawn Real Estate Success Story
- There have been some successful posts of Oak Lawn homes sold and closed. Click the link for one of them.
General Real Estate News
- There was quite an online outrage about the real estate agent sued over his IDX feed.
- One of my favorite blogs was about debunking the 20/20 expose on real estate tricks of the trade. You just can’t believe everything you see or read, and these supposed exposes always put a spin on things that aren’t necessarily reality. As far as real estate articles, many things real estate related are different from one location to another – so general nationwide information doesn’t always apply to every state, town or local real estate board.
Search Homes From Your Cell Phone
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You can search the entire Northern IL MLS directly from your cell phone. It’s easy to get the app – just go to the MLS search app page, fill it out, download the app and follow the instructions (you’ll get an ID to fill in).
You’ll be able to search real estate on your phone using the same app agents use. You can set your search parameters and can even just do a quick search around your current location. Are you driving past a home and want to know the price now? Put the address in the app or do a quick location search. This will save you from making multiple phone calls to many different agents just to get a simple answer.
Happy house hunting!
I am always excited when our real estate board puts up the year-to-date stats for the full year before. It usually happens sometime in 
January and I visit the site every day until those stats are in.
Since many are saying we have already hit bottom, it is very interesting for me to see how real estate sales activity and prices are by comparing them to the prior year. Of course, it is technically a year behind and we won’t really know how 2013 compares, except on a month-to-month basis (we do get year-to-date figures with each new month), but to me it helps to see how my business is heading.
Here are charts for all real estate sales statistics from 2005-2012 for the two main towns I work in:
Homer Glen real estate sales statistics
Orland Park real estate sales statistics
As a member of Short Sale Superstars, I have been alerted to a disturbing trend with Fannie Mae and their short sales. They are expecting prices so high for their short sale listings that in many cases it is above true market value. There is a petition online that we’re asking people to sign. Please click the link to get more information about the Fannie Mae petition.
It takes time and effort to sell a short sale listing. Many buyers won’t even look at them because they’ve heard it can take months and months to get an answer and even then the transaction might not make it to closing. Now Fannie Mae is making it that much more difficult by expecting prices higher than Broker Price Opinions (BPO’s) show. Fannie Mae needs to be more accountable for setting such unrealistic price expectations.
A new page has been created for all Orland Park homes for sale on the popular Chicago Suburbs website. Maybe you want a clean page full of listings. You don’t want to do a search, you want to see it all. There is no community information on the page, no community photos, no search box you must use – just one link to create an advanced Orland Park MLS search (if you do decide to drill it down to what you want and need). Click the link above and you’ll go right to current Orland Park real estate listings.
This is a great page for someone who doesn’t want distractions and just wants to see the homes for sale in Orland Park – right now! There are price range links you can click to easily separate the listings. It might seem like fun seeing every listing available, but you might want to see a few in each price range just to compare. This makes it easy to do.
Happy house hunting!
Related Living in This Spacious Orland Park Home
By · CommentsIf you need related living or just a big house at an affordable price, then you need to check out the single property website for the Orland Park home located at 15536 Canterbury.
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Featured Chicago Ridge Condo – 9815 S. Nottingham Ave.
By · Comments9815 Nottingham, Chicago Ridge, IL 60415
Click the address link above to see the full single property website for this condo that is a real value. Or click any of the links below to get photos and more information:
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