Chicago Real Estate Blog, Page 9

With Valentines Day just around the corner, let’s get a design professional’s opinion on creating a more sexy and alluring bedroom retreat. Simple design changes can spice up the drama in your life… even if you’re single. Resist the urge …

With Spring just around the corner, you may be thinking about listing your home for sale. According to the Huffington Post, the best time of year to sell your house is between May 1 and May 15th, with home sales …

Color, paint quality, wall preparation and quality of  application all matter a great deal.  Do your homework when selecting paint finish (matte, eggshell, semi-gloss, high gloss, etc).  Same when getting estimates for the job.  Does the price include extensive wall …

Now that the holidays are over and all of the decorations are put away, you may look around at your interiors and think that they look a little sparse. Even with these gray days of late Winter, it isn’t too …

Listen to an interview Debra gave recently to Business Innovators Radio Show host Keith Dougherty. Keith is #1 Best-Selling Author of Publish to Profit and Top Agent; founder of Authority Surge; and​ ​host of Real Estate Innovators Radio covering influencers, …

Hot fun in the summertime! Sly and the Family Stone got it spot on. So get your groove on, enjoy Chicago at its finest and visit the super Farmer’s Markets to be found in almost every corner of the city… …

One of Chicago’s best-known neighborhoods, Lincoln Park has some of the finest food and entertainment in the entire city. From 3-star Michelin restaurants to inexpensive burger joints, and from comedic improv at Second City to highbrow theater at the Steppenwolf …

What are you up to this weekend? Nada? Bupkis? Reruns of Grey’s Anatomy (I love that show!)? Don’t despair! Your dance card is about to fill up! The Dobbs Team put their respective heads together to bring you this list …

Urgent call to action! If you want a last chance to get a reduction in the assessed value of your real estate please read this note and call Matt first thing Tuesday morning! Note from Matt: We had great success …

Beginning mid July my daughter picks White Christmas for our Sunday movie night selection; by mid December we’ve watched bits and pieces or the whole shebang at least a dozen times. And yet we never miss the big screen version …

November 28th is SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY! Hello Neighbors, The holiday season is upon us, bringing joy and a chance to support our local shops and restaurants in the 43rd Ward. Here are some of our newest additions: Armitage / Halsted / Webster    …

Join Matt Panush and Steven Pallotto at an informal gathering where they will tell us what to do to get a reduction in assessed value, the first step to a decrease in a property tax bill.  This is an important …

Greetings! What’s so special about June? For me, June brings peonies (mine are just about to bloom in my tiny sliver of a garden) and my daughter’s birthday (Kat turned 18 on the 1st). For us Chicagoans, June 1 is …

May Day, celebrated on May 1, is an ancient, Northern Hemisphere spring festival and usually a public holiday. Dances, singing, and cake are usually part of the celebrations that the day includes. So in honor of May Day, and the …

Spring is here! What a crazy bunch of fun April brings. From bunnies to robots to love, with a bit of madness and a dash of gastronomy thrown in for good measure. Explore Chicago with my top picks for the …

Our Shop Hop event was a whopping success! Over 60 local businesses, food vendors, and bloggers joined in creating a festive mood to celebrate the holiday season and engage with everything local. We reconnected with old friends, new friendships were …

This Thursday, your favorite shops on Armitage, Halsted, and Webster streets partner up with local food vendors and interesting bloggers for an exciting shopping party.

Chicago is hot these days! So says the Summer Moving Trends Study from national moving company United Van Lines. The report tracks the destination of moving Americans and ranks Chicago as the number one metropolitan area for this summer. Scores …

Most people think that hockey is national sport of the Czech Republic but any Czech will tell you that it is mushroom hunting. From August to the end of October the season is in full swing. Czech forests look like …

While Labor Day may have come and gone, Chicago’s summer festivals are continuing in full force and these events are a great way to keep the summer fun going, especially with the gorgeous weather forecast for Saturday and Sunday. And …

“The luxury home market is creeping out from the traditional centers of Lincoln Park and the Gold Coast. What’s defining that movement is a group of buyers less interested in being in a neighborhood defined as  ‘luxury’ and more interested …