Take a little tour around Waterloo, Illinois, hosted by Barbara Markham of RE/MAX Preferred. Thinking about having a little piece of Waterloo to call your own? Call Barbara at 800-287-9650 or visit her real estate website at www.TheMarkhamNetwork.com to view over 6000 local listings – many with virtual tours.
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Linda Martin of Coldwell Banker’s Winnetka North office was recently selected as the charter member of NorthShoreRealEstateExperts.com.
In this first part of a 3-part interview, we learn a bit about Linda’s background and experience in marketing real estate on Chicago’s North Shore.
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Matt Garrison, one of Coldwell Banker’s super-agents, and managing director of the Matt Garrison Group, offers up some straight talk about how to navigate today’s challenging market.
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Officially organized as an Illinois corporation in 1988, Ramshaw Real Estate has become one of Champaign-Urbana’s leading real estate acquisitions, sales, management, and development firms. The company started at College Corner Mall at the corner of Fourth and Green, then moved to 1402 South Neil, and finally settled in at Illini Plaza, 1817 South Neil, Champaign, where it still is today.
The energy behind Ramshaw’s dynamic growth from a 40-apartment management operation to a full-service leader in the local real estate market has come from many sources. One of these is the company’s commitment to integrity, quality, and excellence. Another is the continued dedication to the interests of owners, investors, customers, and clients. But as many milestones as Ramshaw has celebrated—transactions completed, leases signed, final nails hammered—it’s the people behind Ramshaw’s success that have made it the special company it is today.
“If you are going to succeed, you must have a solid foundation of people,” Jerry Ramshaw said. “We have been very fortunate that our core group of people have grown with our company and truly enjoy working with each other. We’ve experienced very little staff turnover, which helps a great deal when it comes to efficiency, continuity, and productivity.”
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A real estate recovery will be difficult without job creation, and Illinois entered the recent economic downturn with one distinct disadvantage: It never really recovered from the last recession.
So says Geoffrey Hewings, director of the University of Illinois’ Regional Economics Applications Laboratory, who was the first guest to take the mic at Thursday’s 2010 Economic Forecast panel hosted by the Chicago Association of Realtors. The presentation, moderated by WBBM’s Ron Gleason, also featured Inland Real Estate Group Vice President Joe Cosenza, Hanley Wood Market Intelligence Regional Manager Michael Hart, and Appraisal Research Counselors Vice President Gail Lissner, all of whom gave Realtors updates on the state of the residential, commercial, and industrial real estate markets in the Chicago metro area.
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Chicago has tens of thousands of real estate agents. How should a home buyer go about picking one to work with?
That’s the question I posed to veteran real estate agent (and former night club owner) Lino Darchun, who works out of Coldwell Banker’s Lincoln Park office.
The background photo was taken by Michael Kardas, YoChicago’s staff photographer.
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Some days it seems like the world is awash in financial planners. Few of them qualify for the Certified Financial Planner designation.
I met Annette Findling of Stonebridge Advisors at an open house event in Lincolnshire hosted by Linda Martin of Coldwell Banker.
I asked Annette what a financial planner does and what the CFP designation means. Take a look at her answers.
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Schwaps (http://www.schwaps.com) founder, Justin McClelland (http://www.justinmcclelland.com), chronicles his company in its beginning phase. In this video he speaks of how screen-scraping can be used by real estate investors. As an alternative to manually compiling databases or paying for them, screen scraping can be used to pull data from anywhere on the web at a minimal cost.
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