Thom Disch's Real Estate Market Commentary

Subdivisions and Neighborhoods in Lake Bluff – Belle Foret Subdivision Belle Foret Drive Subdivision is comprised of single family luxury homes located in the northern part of the Village of Lake Bluff.  You enter this subdivision turning west off of Green Bay Road.  It is west of the Tangley Oa...

Subdivisions and Neighborhoods in Lake Bluff – Arden Shores Estates Subdivision   Arden Shores Estates is a subdivision comprised of single family homes located in the northern part of Lake Bluff.   You enter Arden Shores Estates by turning east off of Green Bay Road. It is north of both the Tan...

  Lake Bluff is the northern most suburb of Chicago’s North Shore.  It is positioned on Lake Michigan, just north of Lake Forest.  Lake Bluff is bordered on the west by Libertyville and Green Oaks and to the north by the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, North Chicago and Waukegan.  School Distr...

We all deal with residential and commercial properties every day, and if you are like me, you have encountered dangerous and slippery situations on a frequent basis.  This is a chronic problem for everyone. Especially since we see so many different properties in so many different conditions I tho...

For those us us that are still growing a business in these challenging times, we must get resourceful.  One of the ways We've kept expenses down is by buying used office furniture. We've found the cost for everything from file cabinets to desks and even cubicles to be around 30% less than the cos...

Anyone who has spend time looking for a home in the city of Chicago can tell you that the neighborhoods and community areas can be confusing.  The City is broken into 77 Community Areas that are often talked about as Neighborhoods.  In reality there are over 200 neighborhoods in the city.  How th...

  In Chicago, like in most major metropolitan markets, the city’s real estate market is split into neighborhoods or community areas.  Most of the locals know the ‘secret’ name of their home turf.  Outsiders are usually challenged by the names of these markets.  In our website: buyingahomechicago....

A single listing website spotlights a single listing or single property and offers vanity appeal to a home seller that has a website dedicated exclusively to their property. However, there is controversy as to whether single listing websites are an effective marketing tactic or just a gimmick to ...

The expiration of the home buyer tax credit seems to have had surprisingly little impact upon online browsing by prospective home buyers. Leads produced over this past weekend by the 18 Broker Dynamix residential real estate websites reverted back to just slightly below normal levels. While we di...

There had been some speculation that the inventory of homes for sale would really jump after April 15, as sellers raced to get their homes on the market in time for buyers to qualify for the Home Buyer Tax Credits. Well, this turns out not to be the case. The spring selling season increase in inv...