Following their tour of the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago, Joe Askins of YoChicago.com, sales manager Leah Harriet, and Cyndy Salgado of Koenig & Strey GMAC Real Estate sat down in Trump’s nightclub Rebar to discuss the state of the luxury real-estate market in Chicago.
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Genie Birch, a Realtor with Koenig & Strey GMAC Real Estate and president of the Chicago Association of Realtors, talks to Joe Askins of YoChicago.com about what buyers should know as they start looking for a home in 2010. Genie touches on some of the assumptions buyers have about foreclosures and short sales, which are often more difficult to manage than people expect.
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How does a person decide to become a real estate developer?
There are as many paths to the decision, in all likelihood, as there are real estate developers.
Cory Jones, a Chicago policeman, talks about what motivated him to restore a vintage six-flat in Chicago’s North Kenwood – Bronzeville neighborhood.
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Mike McNamara, a home mortgage consultant with Koenig & Strey GMAC Real Estate and Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, talks to YoChicago.com about some of the changes that will take place in the FHA approval process starting Nov. 1, 2009. He also discusses some of the conventional loan options offered to buyers through Wells Fargo, including loans requiring just 5 percent down payment on new condominiums for qualified buyers.
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