Under the Puiri Tree (A Poem about Real Estate )

Posted by admin @ 7:34 pm, January 30th, 2008
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11-04-05 07:18 AM
A sketch of an elderly woman that I scribbled down while I was bored and thinking about moving house, which I will be doing soon - in fact, moving to a new city! I plant a certain variety of dark blue forget-me-nots in places that I live - this year some thing bizarre happened, it turned out I had planted my deep-deep blue forget-me-nots right beneath a bed of pale-blue ones. The effect is strange and I imagine, being that they are self-seeding, I have left a nice inheritence for future tenants.
I like the old lady and her box of newspaper clipping. People should do these things more often.

Real Estate

Under the Puriri tree she placed a box
with ten small pieces of newspaper.

*

Months later, after rain,
she was in the garden mulching.

A small ruin of wet cardboard
sat beneath the Puriri tree,
corrugations standing out
like wet brown ribs.
In this decay ten clippings were stowed,
ten recipes cut from
the pages of the Herald.

*

When she died the house,
the Puriri tree, everything,
was put on the market - and bought.

*

The new owners found soggy-brown
rotting words in their garden.
Mingled in the soil were
ten different ways to make marmalade;
from using oranges, to
using lemons and grapefruit, to
using lime zest.

*

“Did you notice,” said the new lady,
“the people before us used newspaper
for compost.”

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
~ Oliver Wendell

[This message was edited by Fuzzies on 12-07-05 at 09:48 AM

Tuesday Broker Tours

Posted by admin @ 1:09 am, January 23rd, 2008

Every Tuesday from 9:30 am to 12:45 pm Evanston Br okers Tour Listings which are currently on the market for sale. Today was one of those days. On tour today were 56 properties for sale (16 Single Family Homes and 38 Condo’s).
This is just a small sample of properties on the market. Today I decided to tour properties that are in different price categories to let people know what they could buy in Evanston.

List Price:

$150,000 : You can buy a 5 Room, 2 Bedroom 1 Bath unit totaling 1,600 SF in a Landmark Coop building. Unit needs updating.

$265,000: You can buy a 5 Room, 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath unit in a 1965 Era Elevator building in SE Evanston. Unit again needs some updating but there are only 4 units per floor.

$350,000: You can by a totally remondeled Vintage Condo in SE Evanston which has a total of 6 Rooms, 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath. Everything has been done including Master Bedroom utilizing hall bath, in-unit laundry with office combo, and gorgeous kitchen with stainless steel appliances.

$445,000: You can buy a 6 Rooms, 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath Townhouse in downtown Evanston.

$500,000: Tired of Condo living!!! Well you could own a 6 Room, 3 Bedroom , 1.5 Bath Farmhouse close to Downtown Evanston, shopping and Northwestern student housing.

$600,000: Sorry. I did not see anything in this price range today.

$799,000: For just under $800,000 you can own a 7 Room, 4 Bedroom, 1.5 Bath home in NE Evanston on a very prestigious street. Great location within walking distance to lake, Northwestern and Downtown. Some updates to this house are needed.

$800,000: Sorry. Did not see anything in this price range today.

$974,000: For just under a $1,000,000.00 you can buy a 8 room, 4 Bedroom, 3.2Bath Townhouse

$1,675,000: For just over $1,500,000.00 you can buy a 14 Room, 4 Bedroom 5.5 Bath Home in NE Evanston which is located East of Sheridan Road and less than a block from the lake. This home has all of the modern amenities a home owner would desire and is in the perfect location.

$2,850,000: Finally, you could own a modern 4 Bedroom, 3 Bath Penthouse Condo in Downtown Evanston with floor to ceiling windows, open floor plan with the most magnificent views of downtown Chicago, Lakefront, and Bahai Temple.

For information on any of these listings or to have other active listings sent you can visit my website and search on your own or with my assistance .

Evanston Real Estate Market “YEAR IN REVIEW”

Posted by admin @ 7:06 pm, January 2nd, 2008

Sales figures are now in  for 2007 and it appears that the Evanston Real Estate Market is in pretty good shape.

In 2007, 369 single family homes closed and there are another 31 homes under contract and due to close sometime in January of 2008. This would bring the total homes sold  in Evanston to 400 homes in 2007. Compare this to 2006  total sales of 459 homes and Evanston is slightly down  by 59 homes. Median Price of a single home has remained constant at $550,000 with the Average Price of a home at $655,000 up from $621,000 in 2006. Average Market time in 2007 was 115 days up from 72 days in 2006.

In 2007, 659 Condos closed with another 82 condos under contract and due to close sometime in January of 2008. This would bring the total condos sold in Evanston to 752 in 2007. Compare this to 2006 condo sales of 841 Evaston sales are slightly down by 89 condo sales. Median Proce of a condo in Evanston is $285,000 up from $277,000 in 2006. Average Condo price in 2007 is $326,000 again up from $310,000 in 2006. Average Market time in 2007 was 143 days compared to 119 days in 2006.