Armando Chacon of Century 21 SGR talks about the ups and downs of 2009 home sales from his perspective as a Realtor working in Chicago's West Loop. He also looks ahead to 2010 to talk about his expectations for 2010.
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Joe Askins of yochicago.com walks past Pure, 24 S Morgan St in the West Loop. Pure started life as a condo project, but its developer disappeared shortly before its completion. It has since become an apartment building and now has residents.
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Joe Askins of yochicago.com tours the last available unit at 100 S Sangamon St, an eight-unit condo building in Chicago's West Loop. Realtor Armando Chacon of Century 21 SGR, who both lives in the building and is marketing this unit, held a client appreciation party and open house for the building in early December 2009 in hopes of generating interest in the unit.
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Joe Zekas and Joe Askins of yochicago.com continue their tour through the new Chicago French Market at the Ogilvie Transportation Center, meeting customers and vendors at crepes and cheese stands along the way.
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If you're looking for a 5-bedroom home in a walk-to-town, walk-to-train location in Glencoe, your options are few. If you also want an in-ground pool you have only one option. Coldwell Banker's Karen Arenson walks us through this recently-renovated and nicely updated home, priced at $875000, in one of the North Shore's most desirable suburbs.
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Joe Askins of yochicago.com and Marcia Walsh of the Beverly Area Planning Association conclude their drive through the South Side neighborhoods of Beverly and Morgan Park.
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Joe Zekas and Joe Askins of yochicago.com walk through the Chicago French Market, the newest addition to Chicago's Ogilvie Transportation Center. The market was not was the two Joes expected upon arrival, but their disappointment slowly faded as they considered the market's traffic and its intended clientele.
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Joe Askins of yochicago.com and Marcia Walsh of the Beverly Area Planning Association continue their drive through the South Side neighborhoods of Beverly and Morgan Park.
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Join me for a candid conversation with Prudential Rubloff's Barbara Cohen on the state of the real estate market in Northbrook, Illinois. You'll hear my "ouch" response when Cohen bluntly lays out the crurrent scene: $2 million homes "bumping along in the low $1s." Barbara Cohen is a 22-year veteran of North Shore real estate who specializes in Northbrook. She entered real estate after a successful career as a senior level research scientist.
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Joe Askins of yochicago.com and Marcia Walsh of the Beverly Area Planning Association continue their tour of the Beverly and Morgan Park neighborhoods on Chicago's South Side with a drive down 95th Street, one of the area's major retail corridors, and into the winding, wooded residential streets bordering the Dan Ryan Woods.
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