2010 Agents’ Choice Awards Lauren Mitrick, Jameson Real Estate The winner of CA’s first-ever best dressed award, Lauren Mitrick grew up in a real estate family and started her career leasing residential units in downtown Chicago over seven years

Marko Beric Raised in Chicago’s western suburbs and a resident of Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood, Marko Beric is an up-and-coming real estate broker at Koenig & Strey Real Living in Lincoln Park. His involvement in real estate began at

Real estate is now, and always will be, an ever-changing industry. Realtors have so much to juggle on a daily basis, that it is useful to have a lending expert on-hand to ask important questions that will help get

Creating a great website that focuses on consumers — and generates leads — takes not only time and effort, but also an understanding of one’s target audience and their needs. Overall, a great Realtor website will let potential buyers

Changes on the Way for Salespeople, Managing Brokers By Zipporah Porton In a recent Chicago Agent magazine survey, 68 percent of the agent respondents felt that obtaining a real estate license should be more difficult. A few years back,

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To find out how agents feel about topics such as commissions, associations, office satisfaction and more, we launched a comprehensive survey to find out the truth about agents. Chicago Agent received an overwhelming number of responses, and we’d like

HANDLING THE CREDIT CRUNCH Mortgage crisis. Credit crunch. Predatory lending. Foreclosure. Subprime fallout. Even those who are unfamiliar with the real estate and lending industries are tossing around this terminology these days. The media continually reports failed subprime lending

By Eleanor Olson I have had the opportunity to work at Coldwell Banker under Jennifer Ames’ leadership in various capacities for more than two years. Working closely with one of the most talented and respected agents in the Chicagoland