Beth Brace's (bbrace) Blog

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our Armed Forces.   Please remember our armed forces who is sacrificing for this great county of ours. It is because of them we all sleep at night in our safe homes.

Top 10 Cities With Most Underwater Homes in America   Las Vegas, Nevada          80.2% Phoenix, Arizona              68.4% Reno, Nevada                 64.4% Orlando, Florida               64.2% Stockton, California         57.5% El Centro, California         55.0% Modesto, California          53...

Happy November 2010.     According to Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist at the National Association of Realtors, gross commissions for real estate agents are down 50 percent from their peak. Wow. That essentially means that the real estate industry is playing with half the money it did back in 2006. ...

Get Out and Vote Today   With all the changes going on in our nation , please take time to get out and vote today. It is everyone's responsibility tohear your voice counted in this election. There will be change and with our industry in the dump we need to look for a solution. I hope that all of ...

From the Illinois Association of Realtors: In the city of Chicago, September total home sales (single-family and condominiums) were down 26.9 percent to 1,403 sales compared to 1,918 homes sold in September 2009. The city of Chicago median price in September 2010 was $180,000, down 20.0 percent c...

WOW, you did sign on the dotted line.... THis is from an article in the Chicago Tribune.   In the eight-county Chicago area, 19 percent of mortgages — representing nearly 1 in 5 residential properties with a loan — are delinquent by at least one month, helping create an inventory of almost 204,00...

Let's Get to THe Bottom I read this and I am thrilled that we are starting to see other people thoughts on getting to the bottom. THe government needs to get out and we will settle down and start to climb. The sooner the better..... Buyers are not dumb and there are plenty of them out there just ...

Mortgage Fraud in Chicago   Reuters UK shows just how easy it is to steal over $300,000 from a bank in 2010. The house on the 53rd block of South Wood Street in Chicago’s Back of the Yards doesn’t look like a $355,000 (227,200 pounds) home. There is no front door and most of the windows are board...

High End Chicago Area Homes are being Foreclosed. This is such a rare event for the Lake Forest area. Not any more. It is finally being released from the banks, that short sales are incompasing the  complete real estate market. How about your area? Now Banks can not longer hold on to the high end...

A New Happy way to build Client Relationships, Hinsdale, La Grange,Il   What a new and graceful way to make someone day happy. I am thinking that if we keep in touch with our clients this way at their front door or car what a statement. IT does not have to be expensive,just a happy reminder that ...