Things have Changed!
The rules have changed. Stock market gyrations, Fed rate cuts, a government stimulus package… mostly prompted by the financial fallout from our business of real estate and mortgages. It’s not for us to belabor the hows or whys of how it happened… but it is for us to be frank with you as we counsel you about the realities of the housing market today.

No Time To Be Testing the Water
In good real estate markets, people sometimes put their house on the market to “See what happens - if we get an offer we like, we’ll sell.” Sorry, not now. In a slow “Buyer’s” market like we have now, it’s no time for playing games or weak nerves. There's lots of unsold inventory out there, so only serious buyers and sellers should be in the market.  However, if you ARE serious, or think you may be, we're here to counsel and help you.

A Great Time to Move Up - Houses are On Sale!
Most people we counsel are surprised, even dismayed, when they realize the value of their home isn’t what it was a year ago, but it’s true… house prices have weakened after years of run ups. In fact, median house prices fell in 2007 for the first time in four decades. So why is 2009 a great time to move up?

Because even if you have to sell your home for less than you feel it’s worth, you will likely more than make up for any loss by the savings you’ll make by buying up on a home that’s declined even more than yours in dollar terms. You see, a given percentage decline on your home is an even greater dollar decline on a more expensive house. So assuming you can sell and can get a mortgage for a larger home, now’s your chance to move up in the world.

Another thing – don’t you like to buy when it’s a buyer’s market – when there are lots of choices of great homes, prices are lower, and financing rates are low too? Now’s the time.

Contact us if you’re SERIOUS about Selling or Buying. Look at it this way. Though we’re experienced real estate agents, we don’t like to waste your time, our time or the time of others involved in the purchase or sale of a home. This is not the type of market to be playing with peoples’ emotions by looking at homes you have no intention of even considering. Likewise, by putting your home on the market frivolously, you’d only be hurting yourself.

Communities We Cover
We help clients up and down the beautiful Fox Valley, as well as in the Far West, West, and Northwest suburbs of Chicagoland. Having lived in the Fox Valley for 11 years, we know it very well, and we also lived in the Northwest suburbs for 15 years (commuting to such places as Arlington Heights, Des Plaines, Mount Prospect, Northbrook, Schaumburg, Rosemont and even Chicago).

While focusing on the greater Fox Valley as the heart of our territory, some clients appreciate our familiarity with a broad area of the West and Northwest suburbs so that they can compare and contrast towns. Over the years, while we've listed, sold and shown a multitude of homes in the Tri-Cities area of St Charles, Geneva and Batavia, we’ve also covered such towns as:

Algonquin, Arlington Heights, Aurora, Barrington, Bartlett, Bolingbrook, Buffalo Grove, Carol Stream, Cary, Crystal Lake, Downers Grove, East & West Dundee, Elburn, Elgin, Genoa, Gilberts, Glen Ellyn, Hampshire, Hampshire, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Huntley, Kirkland, Lake In The Hills, Lake Zurich, Marengo, Montgomery, Mundelein, Naperville, North Aurora, Oswego, Palatine, Pingree Grove, Plainfield, Schaumburg, Sleepy Hollow, South Elgin, Streamwood, Sugar Grove, Sycamore, Volo, Warrenville, West Chicago, Wheaton, and Woodstock.

Our Referral Network
Being Coldwell Baker Residential associates, we work with the best in the business and are part of an exclusive 12-member Coldwell Banker referral group: The Chicagoland Home Connection (website: www.ChicagolandHomeConnection.com ).

Outside of each member's own area of familiarity, they are not always comfortable showing or listing homes, so if the area you’re interested in falls outside our own core area (See Communities We Cover, above), we’ll serve your best interests by referring you out to one of our longtime trusted experts, spread around Chicagoland. We’ll also stay in touch to ensure your needs are fully met.

Relocating? We Really Relate.
You may have noticed our Glenn Connection motto, Opening Life’s Doors. While that may sound a little ambitious, we really find it to be true. Nothing proves that more than when we help corporate transferees relocate not only their homes, but their entire lives and often families, too, to a new city and state. Such a move is often very traumatic — we should know, as we’ve personally moved from state to state several times, and even from country to country and back again, too. So, we’re Realtors who can really “relate” to the emotions involved in relocation -- both exciting and perhaps a little scary. Many people too, like the fact that we handle transferees together, which makes for better bonding with clients on a personal level and results in better listening for cues. Even if you’re making a local move, you get the kid gloves treatment. All our clients deserve it.

Experience You Can Count On

Together we have over 20 years experience as real estate professionals, and extensive backgrounds in other aspects of the business world. Our collective expertise stretches from the legal field to financial services to consumer marketing to engineering. Many people ask how a husband and wife team can work so well… well, it does! Edie handles the majority of client contact, while John takes care of the business side. You are dealing directly with us… not assistants, just professionals. Visit our personal website!