Baird & Warner redefines real estate search

Baird & Warner has done this with the launch of our new website
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With the launch of our new site, we give options to consumers to personalize their search process, from Local Search, Neighborhood Search, Lifestyle Search, Map Search, and Proximity Search.





Baird & Warner redefines real estate search

Real Estate 2011: House Prices in Chicago and the Suburbs - Chicago magazine - October 2011

 

THE NEW NEW RULES OF REAL ESTATE: Eleven years ago, Chicago offered a guide to making the most of the sizzling-hot housing market. What a difference a decade makes. Now, confronting the realities of today’s pinched economy, local real-estate pros weigh in with the best strategies for buying or selling a home. PLUS: Our annual survey of housing prices in nearly 300 neighborhoods and towns

By Dennis Rodkin

RULE NO. 1   Yesterday is gone

RULE NO. 2 Don’t play the “let’s just see what happens” game.

 

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Your Home May be Under Valued ..Are You a Victim of Fuzzy Math on the Net?

Gonsalves worked hard to turn his 6,500-square-foot stucco-and-stone home in the suburbs of Sacramento into the ultimate grown-up party pad, complete with game room, custom wine cellar and an infinity-edge pool overlooking Folsom Lake. When interest rates fell recently, Mr. Gonsalves, who runs a lobbying firm, looked into refinancing his $750,000 mortgage. That's when he got startling news—the home had dropped more than $200,000 in value while he was renovating.Or at least, that's what one real-estate website told him. Another valued the house at only $640,500. And these online estimates left him all the more confused

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Homes for SALE DOWNERS GROVE-Neal Paskvan

How to Figure the Fuzzy Math of Internet Home Values

How to Read Zillow, Trulia and Other Online Home Price Websites - WSJ.com

Jason Gonsalves worked hard to turn his 6,500-square-foot stucco-and-stone home in the suburbs of Sacramento into the ultimate grown-up party pad, complete with game room, custom wine cellar and an infinity-edge pool overlooking Folsom Lake. When interest rates fell recently, Mr. Gonsalves, who runs a lobbying firm, looked into refinancing his $750,000 mortgage. That's when he got startling news—the home had dropped more than $200,000 in value while he was renovating. Or at least, that's what one real-estate website told him. Another valued the house at only…

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Simple Steps to Portect Your Investment

Your Home is One of Your Biggest Investments ! Just as you may check up with your Financial Advisor now and then ... It's a Great Idea to keep an eye out on the Worth of your Home- I'm Here to help email me at ...neal.paskvan@bairdwarner.com

Home buying more than an investment question Terry Savage A Expert on Personal Finance Anwsers

 Is now the right time to buy a place of my own? As a Realtor... I get asked this All the Time
Terry Savage.. A  nationally known expert on personal finance answers the Question so well and Honestly I just had to post this.

Thanks Terry...

Q. Home prices keep falling and we’ve been waiting to buy our first home. We’ve saved up enough for about a 15 percent down payment. But now we’re beginning to wonder if we should buy at all — or keep renting.

A. Well, you’re right about home prices. The most recent Case-Shiller Home Price Index shows that prices fell 3.1 percent, year over year, compared with January 2010. The 20-city composite index, as of January, has fallen 31.8 percent from its peak in July 2006.

In fact, there’s talk of a “double-dip” housing recession, which would be defined by the Case-Shiller 20-city price index hitting a new low — even lower than the bottom made in April 2009. As of January, the 20-city index was only 1.1 percent above that low point.

The decline in home prices, combined with previous lenient lending standards, has resulted in nearly 25 percent of homeowners having a mortgage that is larger than the current market value of the home. (Keep in mind that nearly one-third of the homes in America are owned free and clear, without a mortgage.)



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Another Luxury Home SOLD by Neal Paskvan

This Home has it All and was SOLD at 95% of listing price...