Michael Pierson recently sat down with Joe Zekas of YoChicago to discuss Prudential Rubloff’s real-time market reports called Premier Market Watch. Michael offers insight into how consumers can utilize and benefit from these free, weekly reports on any neighborhood or community in Cook, Lake or DuPage county. Premier Market Watch reports provide answers to questions such as, ‘Are home prices in my area going up or down?’; ‘What is the average number of days on the market in my area?’; ‘What are price ranges in specific zip codes?’; and ‘Are there many homes available in my price range in certain areas?’.
This past week, Prudential Real Estate held its annual conference in Austin, TX. For three days, broker owners, agents and relocation directors from Prudential affiliates throughout North America descended on the small but charming town to network, share ideas and learn the latest in the real estate industry. Keynote speakers included Scott Hamilton, Brian Buffini and Bill Rancic. Coupled with their powerful speeches, the conference’s central theme of Make it Happen empowered all.
Chicago’s Prudential Rubloff had a strong representation in Austin with several agents and management in attendance. During the conference’s award ceremony, Prudential Rubloff was honored with the prestigious Gibraltar Circle Award. This award is presented to the top 50 firms in the entire Prudential Real Estate Network. Prudential Rubloff moved up seven spots and was ranked 21 nationally!
After a successful event and renewed with the desire to “make it happen,” we return to Chicago and the Spring Real Estate Market.
Prudential Rubloff showed the greatest increase in dollar volume in Chicago residential sales from 12/1/08 through 12/31/09. Please click here to view the pdf.
RWF Mortgage, the joint venture launched in 2005 between Rubloff Residential Properties and Wells Fargo Ventures, LLC, has expanded with the recent merger of Rubloff Residential Properties and Prudential Preferred Properties.
As it has for the past five years, RWF Mortgage continues to serve as the home-financing component within its core services, including real estate, title and mortgage. RWF loan officers work with Prudential Rubloff Properties’ sales professionals in the 17 offices across Cook, Lake and DuPage counties in Illinois and Michigan’s Harbor Country. To read the press release, please click here.
1030 Superior, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1893, is also known as the Francis J. Woolley House. Named for the lawyer who originally commission the house, this home is a superb example of Frank Lloyd Wright’s earlier work. The building’s design has been called a Queen Anne splendor, a style represented by the Woolley House’s massive bay windows and projecting roof masses. The design is also heavily influenced by Wright’s first teacher, Joseph Silsbee, and the Arts and Crafts movement.
The dining room especially reflects these influences.
Art glass windows and doors and custom art glass light fixture.
Classic Frank Lloyd Wright entry foyer.
But don’t let all the tradition and historic designations fool you, this home is perfectly suited for modern living. It has a welcoming open floor plan, a first floor family room, an updated kitchen, a bright and cherry third floor office and a 700-bottle wine cellar. All systems are new.
Contact Tony and Kathy Iwersen of Prudential Rubloff, to schedule an appointment and see why this is a fantastic and rare offering.
This home was recently featured in the Wednesday Journal. Click to download.
A grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of Prudential Rubloff’s Glenview office was held on November 10. The new location is a state-of-the-art facility with generous computer resources and a dynamic agent service center.
The Glenview office is lead by Geri Barborek… Geri’s leadership style is built on a foundation of integrity, teamwork and service. As an advocate for her team, she provides the coaching, support and tools needed to exceed all expectations. Her 25+ years of experience on the North Shore with a focus on the Glenview Market makes Geri a valuable resource for agents and clients alike. As a former Educator, she understands the importance of turning information into knowledge. Geri takes great pride as new agents flourish and experienced agents take their business to the next level. Geri brings a passion to the business that is contagious. Her encouragement, fairness and “can do” approach are most appreciated by her agents and colleagues. Geri’s energy and positive attitude set the tone for her office. (more…)
CHICAGO, IL – October 5, 2009 – Prudential Rubloff Properties is pleased to announce that they have expanded their presence into Glenview, Illinois. Located at 1701 East Lake Avenue, Suite 160, the new Prudential Rubloff Properties office is a state-of-the-art facility with generous computer resources and a dynamic agent service center.
Geri Barborek, a real estate industry veteran with over 30 years of real estate experience and a Glenview resident, is the manager of the new office. “We’re confident that Geri Barborek, with her years of industry experience and in-depth market knowledge, will be a significant asset to us as we grow our strategic presence on the North Shore,” said Chris Eigel, Chief Executive Officer of Prudential Rubloff Properties and 40-year Glenview resident. “Because Prudential Preferred Properties, now Prudential Rubloff Properties as a result of our recent merger with Rubloff Residential Properties, is already well-established throughout the North Shore communities, it made sense for us to open an office in Glenview at this time. Many of our competitors are contracting, making this a bold move. We enjoy a strong presence in the Glenview market, where we are ranked in the top three companies in sales. In fact, we have the highest average sales price and the lowest days on market among the top seven Glenview real estate firms. We are pleased to offer our clients a Glenview location from which to serve them better. With Geri Barborek leading our effort, we look forward to a very favorable reception in the Glenview real estate community,” Eigel concluded.
To reach the Prudential Rubloff Properties Glenview office, please call 847.724.3100.
About Prudential Rubloff Properties
Prudential Rubloff Properties has 17 sales offices with nearly 900 sales professionals and staff in Chicago’s Gold Coast, Lincoln Park, Lakeview and South Loop, as well as Evanston, Highland Park, Lake Forest, Libertyville, Northbrook, Winnetka and Michigan’s Harbor Country. Prudential Rubloff Properties is the exclusive provider of Premier Market Watch Reports, a consumer trend and analysis tool for neighborhoods and communities in Chicagoland’s Cook, Lake, and DuPage Counties. For additional information, please visit PruPref.com/MarketWatch.
Prudential Rubloff Properties is an independently owned and operated member of Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, a full-service residential and commercial real estate network with nearly 1,940 franchise offices and more than 62,000 sales professionals in the franchise network in the United States and Canada.
Frequent searchers of anything on the internet — be it collectibles on eBay, the latest automobile innovation, or Chicago homes for sale — know one thing: information is king. The more details a website can provide in order to make your experience both productive and entertaining, the more likely that website will see you return again and again. And Rubloff.com strives to be (and some say, succeeds in being) the premier online source for Chicago real estate.
Always innovators, today we launch our new property details page layout, certain to close the gap between the myriad of information available on every property and the real needs of the serious and casual viewer alike.
With its new lightbox photo viewing option (just click on any full size photo of a home), you can take an unobstructed tour of your potential new digs. And with larger sized preview images, available in a convenient scrolling bar, you are sure to find exactly what you want to see as quickly as possible.
Beyond our property descriptions, we also have additional features broken up by easy-to-use tabs. Simply click from General Property Info (displaying room dimensions and pertinent details that set one residence apart from another) to our new Comparables tab, featuring a short list of available properties found to be comparable in size, price, and location to the one which you are viewing. With a quick click of the bottom link, you can retrieve a more extensive list of the same, making searches for the property you truly desire all the more simple.
Our recent addition, the Walk Score remains in another tab, allowing you to spec out what features your brand new neighborhood may contain, from grocery stores to restaurants, city parks to indoor gyms. And lastly, the Mortgage Calculator is now embedded in each property details page, prepopulated with the specific data for your search result and ready to be customized to your particular mortgage requirements and requests.
So, log onto Rubloff.com today to check out the newest addition to our arsenal of web innovations. Whether you have loved us in the past, or are checking us out for the first time, a serious seller or a casual viewer, we welcome you to join in the fun.
As Creative Director for Rubloff, I am often privileged to a front row seat in viewing the finest Chicago homes for sale. So many images of the most gorgeous residences imaginable float across my desk or screen on a daily basis that I have to admit to becoming just a little bit jaded. I see some of the most fabulous properties in every price range, most of which are beyond the wildest dreams I have for my personal home. Yet, I’ve heard the unimaginable float out of my mouth more than once:
“What’s the list price? Only $1.5 Million?”
“Nice, but where are the his and her baths?”
“The hardwood floors aren’t cut on the diagonal, though.”
I wouldn’t know what $1.5 Million looked like if a bundle of bills fell on my head. And I still jostle for space every morning in the bathroom mirror before heading out to my office overlooking Oak Street Beach.
Well, Rubloff.com isn’t just the place to see the most amazing, over-the-top residences represented by the most experienced luxury marketing experts in the industry. Rubloff.com is the ultimate tool for your real estate search, for any property type, at any price range.
Today, we introduce a new maximum/minimum price field, located right on our home page and on every subsequent page, ready to accept your custom entry, right down to the dollars and cents.
Now, every visitor to Rubloff.com can manually enter the precise dollar amount for the home they are searching for. Have your preapproval amount on a mortgage? Jump right on to the Rubloff home page, enter your max and min prices and press “search.”
Want some more options? Jump to our Advanced Search and break down your choices even further, all with an exact dollar amount entered to reflect your personal comfort level and financial ability.
Want to check out an open house, but don’t have a lot of time to waste? Enter your range on our Open House page, and dash out the door.
Sure, I’m biased. But I daresay that Rubloff.com is the only place I would go to search for my next home (with or without his and her baths). With search functionality that can’t be beat, and cutting edge technology being added every day: Mi casa es su casa. Our website is your website.
