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  • ๋ฏธ ์ •๋ถ€ ์…ง๋‹ค์šด์ด ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋ผ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ

    ์ตœ๊ทผย ๋ฏธ๊ตญย ์ •๋ถ€ย ์…ง๋‹ค์šด(government shutdown)์—ย ๋Œ€ํ•œย ๋‰ด์Šค๊ฐ€ย ์ž์ฃผย ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์ฃผํƒ์‹œ์žฅ๋„ย ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๋Š”ย ๊ฒƒ์ดย ์•„๋‹Œ๊ฐ€ย ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜๋Š”ย ๋ถ„๋“ค์ดย ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ย ๊ฒฐ๋ก ๋ถ€ํ„ฐย ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉดย  ์ฃผํƒ์‹œ์žฅ์€ย ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์ง€ย ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย ๋งค๋งคย ๊ณ„์•ฝ์€ย ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆย ์ฒด๊ฒฐ๋˜๊ณ , ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด์™€ย ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋Š”ย ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผย ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๋“ค๋„ย ์ •์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœย ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผย ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒย ์ผ๋ถ€ย ๊ณผ์ •์ดย ์ผ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœย ์ง€์—ฐ๋ ย ์ˆ˜๋Š”ย ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „์ฒดย ์‹œ์žฅ์ดย ์ •์ง€๋˜๋Š”ย ์ผ์€ย ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์…ง๋‹ค์šด์ดย ์ผ์–ด๋‚ ย ๋•Œย ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š”ย ๋ณ€ํ™” ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ย ์ผ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœย ๋ฌธ์„ย ๋‹ซ๊ฒŒย ๋˜๋ฉด, ์ผ๋ถ€ย ์—ฐ๋ฐฉย ๊ธฐ๊ด€์˜ย ์—…๋ฌด๊ฐ€ย ์ถ•์†Œ๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ย ์ค‘๋‹จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋กœย ์ธํ•ดย ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ย ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ๋„ย ์ผ๋ถ€ย ์ง€์—ฐ์ดย ๋ฐœ์ƒํ• ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธย ์˜ˆ๋Š”ย ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผย ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ถ€ย ๋ณด์ฆย ์œต์ž(FHA, VA, USDA) ์ „์ฒดย ๋ชจ๊ธฐ์ง€ย ์‹ ์ฒญย ์ค‘ย ์•ฝย 25%๋ฅผย ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š”ย FHA, VA, USDA ๋Œ€์ถœ์€ย ๋‹ด๋‹นย ๊ธฐ๊ด€์˜ย ํœด์ง์œผ๋กœย ์ธํ•ดย ์‹ฌ์‚ฌย ๊ณผ์ •์ดย ์ง€์—ฐ๋ ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Zillow์˜ย ์ž๋ฃŒ์—ย ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉดย ์…ง๋‹ค์šดย ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ย ์ค‘ย ํ•˜๋ฃจย ์•ฝย 2,500๊ฑด์˜ย ์‹ ๊ทœย ๋ชจ๊ธฐ์ง€ย ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ย ์ง€์—ฐ๋ ย ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ดย ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ ย ๋ถ„์„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™์ˆ˜๋ณดํ—˜(Flood Insurance) ์Šน์ธย ์ง€์—ฐ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝํ™์ˆ˜๋ณดํ—˜ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ(NFIP)์ดย ์ผ์‹œย ์ค‘๋‹จ๋˜๋ฉด, ํ™์ˆ˜ย ์œ„ํ—˜ย ์ง€์—ญ์˜ย ์ฃผํƒย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋Š”ย ๋ณดํ—˜ย ์Šน์ธย ์ง€์—ฐ์œผ๋กœย ์ธํ•ดย ํด๋กœ์ง•์ดย ๋Šฆ์–ด์งˆย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผย ์ผ๋ถ€ย ์ ˆ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ย ๋А๋ ค์งˆย ์ˆ˜๋Š”ย ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „์ฒดย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์˜ย ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ย ์ •์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœย ์ง„ํ–‰๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๋Š”ย ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆย ์ง‘์„ย ์‚ฌ๊ณ , ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋Š”ย ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆย ์ง‘์„ย ํŒ”๋ฉฐ, ์‹œ์žฅ์€ย ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆย ์›€์ง์ด๊ณ ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐย ์‚ฌ๋ก€๊ฐ€ย ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š”ย โ€˜๋น ๋ฅธย ํšŒ๋ณต๋ ฅโ€™ 2018๋…„ย ๋ง, 35์ผ๊ฐ„ย ์ง€์†๋œย ์ •๋ถ€ย ์…ง๋‹ค์šดย ๋‹น์‹œ์—๋„ย ์ฃผํƒย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋Š”ย ์ผ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœย ์†Œํญย ๋‘”ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ย  ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ย ์žฌ๊ฐœ๋˜์ž๋งˆ์žย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋Ÿ‰์€ย ๊ณง๋ฐ”๋กœย ํšŒ๋ณต ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์ „๋ฏธ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐํ˜‘ํšŒ(NAR)์˜ย ์ž๋ฃŒ์—ย ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์…ง๋‹ค์šดย ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ย ๋™์•ˆย ๊ธฐ์กดย ์ฃผํƒย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋Š”ย ์•ฝย ๋‘ย ๋‹ฌ๊ฐ„ย ์†Œํญย ์ค„์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ดํ›„ย ๋ฐ€๋ฆฐย ํด๋กœ์ง•์ดย ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ ์œผ๋กœย ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋˜๋ฉด์„œย ์ •์ƒย ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœย ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒย ๋ฐ˜๋“ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, ์…ง๋‹ค์šด์€ย ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ ย โ€˜์†๋„ย ์กฐ์ ˆโ€™์ผย ๋ฟ, ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ย ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธย ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ย ๋ฐ”๊พธ์ง€๋Š”ย ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ย ์ค‘์ด์‹œ๋ผ๋ฉดย โ€“ ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜์ง€ย ๋งˆ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค ํ˜„์žฌย ๊ณ„์•ฝย ์ค‘์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ย ํด๋กœ์ง•์„ย ์•ž๋‘”ย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ดยท์…€๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ย ๋„ˆ๋ฌดย ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜์ง€ย ์•Š์œผ์…”๋„ย ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.Bankrate์˜ย ์‹œ์žฅ๋ถ„์„๊ฐ€ย ์ œํ”„ย ์˜ค์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ๋ธŒ์Šคํ‚ค๋Š”ย โ€œ์ผ๋ถ€ย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ย ๋ฉฐ์น ย ๋˜๋Š”ย ๋ช‡ย ์ฃผย ์ •๋„ย ๋Šฆ์–ด์งˆย ์ˆ˜๋Š”ย ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ย ๊ฒฝ์šฐย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ย ๋ฌด์‚ฐ๋˜์ง€๋Š”ย ์•Š๋Š”๋‹คโ€๊ณ ย ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œย ์ง€๊ธˆย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผย ์ค€๋น„ย ์ค‘์ธย ๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š”ย ์˜คํžˆ๋ คย  ๊ธฐํšŒ ๊ฐ€ย ๋ ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์…ง๋‹ค์šดย ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์—๋Š”ย ์ผ๋ถ€ย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด์™€ย ์…€๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ย ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑย ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—ย ์ž ์‹œย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผย ๋ฏธ๋ฃจ๋Š”ย ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ดย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋งŒํผย ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ย ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ดย ์ผ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœย ์ค„์–ด๋“ค๊ธฐย ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๋Š”ย ๋”ย ์ข‹์€ย ์กฐ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœย ์ง‘์„ย ๊ตฌ๋งคํ• ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ๊ณ , ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋Š”ย ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ฒŒย ํ˜‘์ƒ์„ย ์ง„ํ–‰ํ• ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์…ง๋‹ค์šด์€ย โ€˜์ผ์‹œ์ ย ์กฐ์ •โ€™, ์‹œ์žฅ์€ย ๊ณ„์†ย ์›€์ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ด๋ฒˆย ์…ง๋‹ค์šด์œผ๋กœย ์ผ๋ถ€ย ์ •๋ถ€ย ๋Œ€์ถœย ์Šน์ธ์ด๋‚˜ย ๋ณดํ—˜ย ์ ˆ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ย ๋Šฆ์–ด์งˆย ์ˆ˜๋Š”ย ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ,ย  ์ฃผํƒ์‹œ์žฅ์€ย ๊ฒฐ์ฝ”ย ๋ฉˆ์ถ”์ง€ย ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2018๋…„์˜ย ์‚ฌ๋ก€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ย ์žฌ๊ฐœ๋˜๋ฉดย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋Š”ย ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒย ์ •์ƒํ™”๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, ์ด๋ฒˆย ์ƒํ™ฉ์€ย ๊ณตํฌ์˜ย ์‹ ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ย ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผย  ์‹œ์žฅย ์ฐธ์—ฌ์ž์—๊ฒŒย ์ž ์‹œย ์ˆจ์„ย ๊ณ ๋ฅผย ๊ธฐํšŒ ๋ฅผย ์ฃผ๋Š”ย ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์ง€๊ธˆ์ด์•ผ๋ง๋กœย ์ค€๋น„๋œย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด์™€ย ์…€๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ย ํ˜„๋ช…ํ•˜๊ฒŒย ์›€์ง์ผย ์‹œ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ถ€ย ์…ง๋‹ค์šด์ดย ๋‚ดย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์—ย ์–ด๋–คย ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ย ์ค„ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์„์ง€, ๋˜๋Š”ย ์ง€๊ธˆ์ดย ์›€์ง์ด๊ธฐย ์ข‹์€ย ์‹œ๊ธฐ์ธ์ง€ย ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•˜์‹œ๋‹ค๋ฉดย ์–ธ์ œ๋“ ย ์ƒ๋‹ดํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€˜์‹œ์นด๊ณ ย ๋ณต๋•๋ฐฉย ํ•œ์ƒ์ฒ โ€™ 773-717-2227,ย  ChicagoBDB@gmail.com

  • ๐Ÿก How a U.S. Government Shutdown Affects the Housing Market

    With talk of a possible government shutdown making headlines, many homeowners and buyers are asking: Will the housing market freeze too? The short answer is no โ€” the market doesnโ€™t stop. Homes are still bought and sold, contracts still move forward, and real estate agents continue their work as usual.While some processes may experience brief delays, the overall housing market remains active and resilient. โš™๏ธ What Actually Changes During a Shutdown When the federal government temporarily closes, certain agencies either scale back or pause operations. This can slow down specific parts of the homebuying process, such as: Government-backed loans (FHA, VA, USDA): These loans account for roughly 25% of all new mortgages. During a shutdown, staffing shortages at these agencies can delay processing.According to Zillow, as many as 2,500 loan applications per day could be delayed nationwide. Flood Insurance approvals: If the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) pauses, closings in designated flood zones may be delayed until policies can be issued or renewed. These disruptions may cause temporary slowdowns , but they donโ€™t halt the market.Buyers are still buying, sellers are still selling, and closings continue โ€” often just at a slightly slower pace. ๐Ÿ“Š History Shows the Market Bounces Back Quickly During the 2018 government shutdown , which lasted 35 days, home sales slowed briefly โ€” but quickly recovered once government operations resumed.Data from the National Association of REALTORSยฎ (NAR) showed a minor dip in existing home sales for about two months, followed by a strong rebound as backlogged transactions closed. In short: a shutdown acts as a โ€œpause,โ€ not a collapse. The marketโ€™s long-term direction remains unchanged. ๐Ÿ  If Youโ€™re in the Middle of a Transaction โ€” Donโ€™t Panic If youโ€™re currently under contract or approaching closing, thereโ€™s no reason to worry. Bankrateโ€™s analyst Jeff Ostrowski notes, โ€œSome deals may close a few days or weeks later than planned, but in most cases, they still go through.โ€ In fact, for buyers and sellers just entering the market, this period can offer unique advantages .Uncertainty often causes some participants to temporarily step back, slightly reducing competition.That means proactive buyers might find better opportunities, and sellers could close faster with motivated parties still in the market. ๐Ÿ’ฌ The Bottom Line: The Market Keeps Moving While a shutdown can delay government-backed loan approvals or flood insurance processing, the housing market itself does not stop .As we saw in 2018, activity rebounds quickly once federal agencies reopen. Rather than a cause for alarm, a shutdown can actually serve as a brief cooling-off period โ€” a chance for prepared buyers and sellers to act strategically while others hesitate. If youโ€™re wondering how a shutdown might affect your transaction โ€” or whether now is a smart time to buy or sell โ€” letโ€™s talk. Chicago Real Estate โ€“ Hansangcheol (ํ•œ์ƒ์ฒ ) ๐Ÿ“ž 773-717-2227 ๐Ÿ“ง ChicagoBDB@gmail.com

  • ์ฃผํƒ์ž์‚ฐ์˜ ํž˜

    ์ตœ๊ทผ ์–ธ๋ก ์—์„œ โ€˜์ง‘๊ฐ’ ํ•˜๋ฝโ€™์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ œ๋ชฉ์ด ์ž์ฃผ ๋ณด๋„๋˜๋ฉด์„œ, ๋‚ด ์ง‘์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋„ ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹Œ์ง€ ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋กœ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์ฃผํƒ ๋ณด์œ ์ž๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋…„ ์ „๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœย  โ€˜์ฃผํƒ ์ž์‚ฐ(Home Equity)โ€™ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผํƒ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ์—์ฟผํ‹ฐ(Equity)์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์ง‘๊ฐ’์ด ์˜ค๋ฅด๋ฉด ์—์ฟผํ‹ฐ๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ง‘๊ฐ’์ด ๋‹ค์†Œ ์กฐ์ •๋˜๋ฉด ์—์ฟผํ‹ฐ ์ƒ์Šน ์†๋„๋„ ์™„ํ™”๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2020~2021๋…„์—๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ๋งค๋ฌผ ๋ถ€์กฑ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ฃผํƒ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ํญ๋“ฑํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์ฃผํƒ ์ž์‚ฐ๋„ ๊ธ‰๊ฒฉํžˆ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ์ƒ์Šน์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์˜์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋“ค์–ด ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋งค๋ฌผ์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒ์Šน์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์™„ํ™”๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ์ด์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์—์ฟผํ‹ฐ ์ƒ์Šน ์†๋„๋„ ์กฐ์ •๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์ž์‚ฐ์ด ์ค„์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋œป์€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์ฃผํƒ ๋ณด์œ ์ž๋Š” โ€˜ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค ์ƒํƒœโ€™์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค Zillow์˜ ์ตœ๊ทผ ํ†ต๊ณ„์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, 2020๋…„ย 3์›” ์ดํ›„ ์ „๊ตญ ํ‰๊ท  ์ฃผํƒ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์€ย  ๋ฌด๋ คย 45% ์ƒ์Šน ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ตœ๊ทผ ์†Œํญ์˜ ํ•˜๋ฝ(-4% ๋‚ด์™ธ)์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, 5๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋ˆ„์ ๋œ ์ƒ์Šน ํญ์— ๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉด ์•„์ฃผ ๋ฏธ๋ฏธํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย  ์ฆ‰, ์–ธ๋ก ์—์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋Š” โ€œ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ํ•˜๋ฝโ€์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ํŠน์ • ์ง€์—ญ์— ๊ตญํ•œ๋œ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ •์ผ ๋ฟ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆย  โ€˜์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ์ˆœ์ด์ต ์ƒํƒœโ€™ ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋œป์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย  ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ์ฃผํƒ๊ธˆ์œต์ฒญ(FHFA)์˜ ์ž๋ฃŒ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญย 50๊ฐœ ์ฃผ ์ „ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์ง€๋‚œย 5๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ฃผํƒ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์ƒ์Šน ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ฃผํƒ ๋ณด์œ ์ž๋“ค์ด ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ž์‚ฐ์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Œ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ์™€ ์ผ๋ฆฌ๋…ธ์ด ์ง€์—ญ๋„ ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ์ดํ›„ ๊พธ์ค€ํ•œ ์ƒ์Šน์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ด์–ด์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ตœ๊ทผ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ์กฐ์ •์ด ์žˆ๋”๋ผ๋„ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์…€๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋†’์€ ์—์ฟผํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ์€ โ€˜์œ„๊ธฐโ€™๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ โ€˜๊ท ํ˜•โ€™์„ ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์ตœ๊ทผ์˜ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์™„ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Realtor.com์˜ ์ˆ˜์„ ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ์ŠคํŠธ ์ œ์ดํฌ ํฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉœ์€ โ€œ์ตœ๊ทผ์˜ ์†Œํญ ํ•˜๋ฝ์€ ์šฐ๋ คํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉฐ, ์ „๊ตญ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ธ‰๋ฝ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋‚ฎ๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, ์ง€๊ธˆ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ๊ณผ์—ด๋œ ์‹œ์žฅ์ด โ€˜๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ๊ท ํ˜•โ€™์„ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•ด ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์…€๋Ÿฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ทธ๋„ ย ์ง‘์„ ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ์ด์ƒ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜์‹  ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ์ด๋ฏธ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์—์ฟผํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ์Œ“์œผ์…จ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ž์‚ฐ์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ƒ์˜ ์ด์ต์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๋‹ค์Œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์˜ ์„ ํƒ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋„“ํ˜€์ฃผ๋Š” ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ž์‚ฐ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย  * ๋” ํฐ ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ โ€˜์—…๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ(move-up)โ€™๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ * ์ž๋…€ ๋…๋ฆฝ ์ดํ›„ โ€˜๋‹ค์šด์‚ฌ์ด์ง•(downsize)โ€™์„ ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ * ํ˜น์€ ํˆฌ์ž์šฉ ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐ์„ ๊ตฌ์ž…ํ•  ๋•Œ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์‹œ์žฅ ํ๋ฆ„์— ๋ถˆ์•ˆํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค, ์ง€๊ธˆ์˜ ๋†’์€ ์—์ฟผํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ์šฉํ• ์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ํ˜„๋ช…ํ•œ ์‹œ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย  ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ๋‹ค์†Œ ์กฐ์ •๋˜๋”๋ผ๋„, ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์ฃผํƒ ๋ณด์œ ์ž๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ์ดํ›„ ์Œ“์•„์˜จ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์—์ฟผํ‹ฐ ๋•๋ถ„์— ๋งค์šฐ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ƒํƒœ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋‚ด ์ง‘์˜ ์‹ค์ œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์œผ์‹œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ „๋ฌธ ๋ฆฌ์–ผํ„ฐ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ถ„์„ํ•ด๋ณด์‹œ๊ธธ ๊ถŒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ข‹์€ ์†Œ์‹์„ ๋“ค์œผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย  โ€˜์‹œ์นด๊ณ  ๋ณต๋•๋ฐฉ ํ•œ์ƒ์ฒ โ€™ย 773-717-2227, [ ChicagoBDB@gmail.com ]

  • ๐Ÿก The Power of Home Equity

    With recent headlines warning about โ€œhome price declines,โ€ many homeowners are wondering whether their property value has dropped too. But data tells a different story โ€” most homeowners today are still in a much stronger financial position than they were just a few years ago.The reason comes down to one key factor: Home Equity. ๐Ÿ“ˆ The Relationship Between Home Prices and Equity When home prices rise, equity grows with them. When prices cool slightly, the pace of equity growth slows โ€” but that doesnโ€™t mean your wealth has disappeared. Between 2020 and 2021, record-low inventory drove an unprecedented price surge, and naturally, homeownersโ€™ equity soared.Now that listings have increased, price growth has moderated โ€” a healthy adjustment, not a collapse. Your equity hasnโ€™t vanished; itโ€™s simply stabilizing after historic gains. ๐Ÿ’ฐ Most Homeowners Are Still in the Positive According to Zillow , the average U.S. home price has risen about 45% since March 2020 .While some areas have seen small pullbacks (around 4%), these dips are minimal compared to the overall gains of the past five years. In short, the โ€œprice declineโ€ the media talks about is mostly a short-term correction in certain areas , not a nationwide downturn. Data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) confirms that home prices have increased across all 50 states over the past five years. That means most homeowners today hold significantly more wealth than before the pandemic. Even in Chicago and throughout Illinois , despite slight recent adjustments, homeowners remain in strong equity positions overall. โš–๏ธ The Market Is Finding Balance, Not in Crisis Experts agree that recent cooling is not a warning sign โ€” itโ€™s a sign of normalization. Realtor.com โ€™s Chief Economist, Jake Krimmel, notes: โ€œRecent price moderation isnโ€™t cause for concern โ€” the chance of a nationwide crash remains very low.โ€ In other words, the market is not falling โ€” itโ€™s simply returning to balance after a period of overheating. ๐Ÿ  What This Means for Sellers If youโ€™ve owned your home for several years, chances are youโ€™ve built up substantial equity .That equity isnโ€™t just a number โ€” itโ€™s a powerful financial resource that can open doors for your next step: Moving up to a larger home Downsizing after children move out Investing in a rental or vacation property Instead of worrying about short-term headlines, focus on how to strategically use your equity to build your next opportunity. ๐Ÿ’ก Final Thoughts Even with modest price adjustments in some markets, most homeowners remain in a very stable position , supported by years of equity growth.If youโ€™d like to know your homeโ€™s current value and how much equity youโ€™ve built, talk to a local real estate professional.You may be pleasantly surprised by how strong your position really is. Chicago Real Estate โ€“ Hansangcheol (ํ•œ์ƒ์ฒ ) ๐Ÿ“ž 773-717-2227 ๐Ÿ“ง ChicagoBDB@gmail.com

  • ์ง‘ ์‚ฌ๊ธฐ์ „, ์ด๊ฒƒ๋“ค์€ ๊ผญ ํ™•์ธํ•ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”

    ์ฃผํƒ์„ย ๊ตฌ๋งคํ• ย ๋•Œย ๋งŽ์€ย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๋ถ„๋“ค์ดย ๊ฐ€์žฅย ๋จผ์ €ย ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š”ย ์œ„ํ—˜ย ์š”์†Œ๋Š”ย โ€˜๊ณฐํŒก์ด(mold)โ€™์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆˆ์—ย ๋ณด์ด๊ธฐ๋„ย ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์—ย ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š”ย ์˜ํ–ฅ๋„ย ์ž˜ย ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธย ์žˆ๊ธฐย ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒย ๊ณฐํŒก์ดย ์™ธ์—๋„ย ๋ˆˆ์—ย ๋ณด์ด์ง€ย ์•Š๋Š”ย ์œ„ํ—˜์ดย ์ง‘ย ์•ˆย ๊ณณ๊ณณ์—ย ์ˆจ์–ดย ์žˆ์„ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ย ๊ทธ์ค‘์—์„œ๋„ย ๊ผญย ์•Œ์•„๋‘์…”์•ผย ํ• ย ์„ธย ๊ฐ€์ง€,ย  ๋‚ฉ(lead) ,ย  ๋ผ๋ˆ(radon) , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ย  ์„๋ฉด(asbestos) ย ๋ฌธ์ œ์—ย ๋Œ€ํ•ดย ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๏ธโƒฃ ๋‚ฉ(Lead) ๋‚ฉ์€ย ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œย ํŽ˜์ธํŠธ, ๋ฐฐ๊ด€, ๋˜๋Š”ย ์ง‘ย ์ฃผ๋ณ€ย ํ† ์–‘์„ย ํ†ตํ•ดย ๋…ธ์ถœ๋ ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.1978๋…„ย ์ด์ „์—ย ์ง€์–ด์ง„ย ์ฃผํƒ์ด๋ผ๋ฉดย ๋‚ฉย ํ•จ์œ ย ํŽ˜์ธํŠธ๊ฐ€ย ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ์„ย ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ดย ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด์˜ย ๊ฒฝ์šฐย ๋‚ฉย ๋…ธ์ถœ์€ย ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌย ์ง€์—ฐ์ด๋‚˜ย ์‹ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ย ์†์ƒ์œผ๋กœย ์ด์–ด์งˆย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์„ฑ์ธ๋„ย ๋‘ํ†ต, ๋ณตํ†ต, ๋นˆํ˜ˆย ๋“ฑ์˜ย ์ฆ์ƒ์„ย ๊ฒช์„ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™˜๊ฒฝย ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ย โ€œํŽ˜์ธํŠธย ์กฐ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹คย ๋”ย ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•œย ๊ฒƒ์€ย ๋ฏธ์„ธํ•œย ๋‚ฉ๊ฐ€๋ฃจโ€๋ผ๊ณ ย ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ˆˆ์—ย ๋ณด์ด์ง€ย ์•Š์•„๋„ย ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒย ํก์ž…๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ย ์„ญ์ทจ๋ ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ๊ธฐย ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธย ํ™ˆย ์ธ์ŠคํŽ™์…˜์—ย ๋‚ฉย ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ย ํฌํ•จ๋˜์ง€ย ์•Š๋Š”ย ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ย ๋งŽ๊ธฐย ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์ „๋ฌธย ๋‚ฉย ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ์ž(Lead Inspector) ๋ฅผย ๋ณ„๋„๋กœย ๊ณ ์šฉํ•˜๋Š”ย ๊ฒƒ์ดย ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ‰๊ท ย ๋น„์šฉ์€ย ์•ฝย 300~700๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌย ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝย ๋‚ฉ์ดย ๊ฒ€์ถœ๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉดย ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œย  ์ „๋ฌธย ์ œ๊ฑฐ์—…์ฒด(Lead Abatement Professional) ์˜ย ๋„์›€์„ย ๋ฐ›์•„์•ผย ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ฉ์€ย ๋‹จ์ˆœย ์ฒญ์†Œ๋กœย ํ•ด๊ฒฐ๋˜์ง€ย ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐ€๋ด‰(encapsulation) ๋˜๋Š”ย ์™„์ „ย ์ œ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ย ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ฉย ์ œ๊ฑฐย ๋น„์šฉ์€ย ํ‰๋ฐฉํ”ผํŠธ๋‹นย ์•ฝย 6~17๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœย ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์˜ย ์ง„๋‹จ๊ณผย ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผย ๋ฐ›๋Š”๋‹ค๋ฉดย ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ย ์œ„ํ—˜์€ย ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆย ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ• ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2๏ธโƒฃ ๋ผ๋ˆ(Radon) ๋ผ๋ˆ์€ย ํ† ์–‘ย ์†ย ์šฐ๋ผ๋Š„์ดย ๋ถ„ํ•ด๋˜๋ฉด์„œย ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š”ย ๋ฌด์ƒ‰ยท๋ฌด์ทจ์˜ย ๋ฐฉ์‚ฌ์„ฑย ๊ฐ€์Šค๋กœ, ์ง‘์˜ย ๊ธฐ์ดˆย ํ‹ˆ์ƒˆ๋‚˜ย ๋ฐฐ๊ด€ย ๊ตฌ๋ฉ์„ย ํ†ตํ•ดย ๋‚ด๋ถ€๋กœย ์Šค๋ฉฐ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์žฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ย ๋…ธ์ถœ๋ ย ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๋น„ํก์—ฐ์ž์—๊ฒŒ์„œย ํ์•”์„ย ์œ ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š”ย ์ฃผ์š”ย ์›์ธ์œผ๋กœย ์•Œ๋ ค์ ธย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋Š”ย โ€œ๋ชจ๋“ ย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๋Š”ย ์ฃผํƒย ๊ตฌ๋งคย ์ „ย ๋ผ๋ˆย ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผย ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œย ๋ฐ›์•„์•ผย ํ•œ๋‹คโ€๊ณ ย ์กฐ์–ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ผ๋ˆย ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ๋Š”ย 75~250๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌย ์ •๋„์˜ย ๋น„์šฉ์œผ๋กœย ์ง„ํ–‰ํ• ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ณดํ†ตย ์ธ์ŠคํŽ™์…˜ย ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์—ย ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ์•ฝย ๋ผ๋ˆย ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ย ๋†’๊ฒŒย ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค๋ฉดย ์ฆ‰์‹œย  ๋ผ๋ˆย ์ €๊ฐย ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€(Radon Mitigation Professional) ์—๊ฒŒย ์ƒ๋‹ด๋ฐ›์•„์•ผย ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์ด๋“ค์€ย  ๊ฐ์••ย ํ™˜๊ธฐย ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ(active depressurization system) ์„ย ์„ค์น˜ํ•ดย ๋ผ๋ˆ์„ย ์™ธ๋ถ€๋กœย ๋ฐฐ์ถœํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ดย ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œย ๋ผ๋ˆย ๋†๋„๋ฅผย 99%๊นŒ์ง€ย ์ค„์ผย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.๋ณดํ†ตย ์„ค์น˜๋น„๋Š”ย 4,000๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌย ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ, ์ฃผํƒ์˜ย ๊ทœ๋ชจ์—ย ๋”ฐ๋ผย ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ผ๋ˆ์€ย ํ•œย ๋ฒˆย ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ๋กœย ๋๋‚˜๋Š”ย ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ย ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„์ ˆ, ์Šต๋„, ๊ตฌ์กฐย ๋ณ€๊ฒฝย ๋“ฑ์—ย ๋”ฐ๋ผย ์ˆ˜์น˜๊ฐ€ย ๋ณ€ํ• ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์œผ๋ฏ€๋กœ,ย  ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์ธย ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง ์ดย ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์š”์ฆ˜์€ย ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํฐ์œผ๋กœย ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ย ๋ผ๋ˆย ์ˆ˜์น˜๋ฅผย ํ™•์ธํ• ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ๋Š”ย ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋“ค๋„ย ๋งŽ์ดย ์ถœ์‹œ๋˜์–ดย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๏ธโƒฃ ์„๋ฉด(Asbestos) ์„๋ฉด์€ย ๋ฏธ์„ธํ•œย ์„ฌ์œ ย ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœย ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํก์ž…ย ์‹œย ํย ์งˆํ™˜๊ณผย ์•”์„ย ์œ ๋ฐœํ• ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ๋Š”ย ์œ„ํ—˜ํ•œย ๋ฌผ์งˆ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆย ์„๋ฉด์—ย ๋…ธ์ถœ๋œย ํ›„ย ์ˆ˜๋…„์ดย ์ง€๋‚˜ย ๋ณ‘์ดย ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š”ย ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ย ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.1978๋…„ย ์ด์ „์—๋Š”ย ๋‹จ์—ด์žฌ, ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅย ํƒ€์ผ, ์ง€๋ถ•์žฌย ๋“ฑย ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œย ๊ฑด์ถ•์ž์žฌ์—ย ๋„๋ฆฌย ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ๋Š”ย ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ย ํ™ˆย ์ธ์ŠคํŽ™์…˜์—ย ์„๋ฉดย ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ย ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ดย ์žˆ์ง€ย ์•Š๊ธฐย ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์ „๋ฌธย  ์„๋ฉดย ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ์ž(Asbestos Inspector) ์—๊ฒŒย ์˜๋ขฐํ•ด์•ผย ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ํ‰๊ท ย ๊ฒ€์‚ฌย ๋น„์šฉ์€ย 1,500ํ‰๋ฐฉํ”ผํŠธย ์ฃผํƒย ๊ธฐ์ค€ย 400~800๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌย ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„๋ฉด์ดย ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋˜๋ฉดย ์ฆ‰์‹œย ํ™˜๊ฒฝย ์ „๋ฌธ๊ธฐ๊ด€์—ย ์—ฐ๋ฝํ•ด์•ผย ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์†์ƒ๋˜์ง€ย ์•Š์€ย ์ƒํƒœ๋ผ๋ฉดย ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœย ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œย ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š”ย ๊ฒƒ์ดย ๋”ย ์•ˆ์ „ํ• ย ์ˆ˜๋„ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒย ์†์ƒ๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ย ๋ถ€์‹๋œย ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š”ย ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œย  ์„๋ฉดย ์ œ๊ฑฐย ์ „๋ฌธ์—…์ฒด ๊ฐ€ย ๋ด‰ํ•ฉ(encapsulation) ๋˜๋Š”ย ์™„์ „ย ์ œ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผย ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ด์•ผย ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„์šฉ์€ย 2,000~10,000๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌย ์ •๋„๋กœย ์ง‘์˜ย ๊ตฌ์กฐ์™€ย ์˜ค์—ผย ์ •๋„์—ย ๋”ฐ๋ผย ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ย โ€œ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœย ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋œย ์„๋ฉด์€ย ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒย ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ• ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๊ณ ย ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, ์„๋ฉดย ์ž์ฒด๋ณด๋‹คย ๊ด€๋ฆฌย ๋ถ€์‹ค์ดย ๋”ย ํฐย ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ผ๋Š”ย ๋œป์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿก ย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๊ฐ€ย ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ด์•ผย ํ• ย ์  ๋งŒ์•ฝย ์ฃผํƒย ์ ๊ฒ€ย ์ค‘ย ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œย ์œ ํ•ดย ๋ฌผ์งˆ์ดย ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด,ย  ๊ฐ€์žฅย ๋จผ์ €ย ์…€๋Ÿฌ์—๊ฒŒย ์ˆ˜์ •ย ๋˜๋Š”ย ๋น„์šฉย ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ย ์š”์ฒญํ• ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋Š”ย ๋ณดํ†ตย 1978๋…„ย ์ด์ „ย ์ฃผํƒ์˜ย ๋‚ฉย ์กด์žฌย ์—ฌ๋ถ€ย ๋“ฑย โ€˜์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ย ์œ„ํ—˜ย ์š”์†Œโ€™๋ฅผย ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œย ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•ด์•ผย ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ผ๋ถ€ย ์ฃผ์—์„œ๋Š”ย ๋ผ๋ˆ์ด๋‚˜ย ์„๋ฉดย ์ •๋ณด๋„ย ๊ณต์‹œย ๋Œ€์ƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒย ์ฃผํƒ์ดย โ€œAs-Is(ํ˜„ย ์ƒํƒœย ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ)โ€ ์กฐ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœย ๋งค๋งค๋˜๋Š”ย ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ๋น„์šฉ์€ย ๊ตฌ๋งค์žย ๋ถ€๋‹ด์ดย ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์ด๋•Œ๋Š”ย  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉย ์กฐ์ •ย ํ˜‘์ƒ ์„ย ์‹œ๋„ํ•ด๋ณด๋Š”ย ๊ฒƒ์ดย ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒย ์…€๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ย ์ด๋ฏธย ์ด๋ฅผย ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ดย ๋‚ฎ์€ย ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœย ๋งค๋ฌผ์„ย ๋‚ด๋†“์•˜์„ย ์ˆ˜๋„ย ์žˆ๊ธฐย ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ํ˜‘์ƒ์€ย ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒย ์ ‘๊ทผํ•ด์•ผย ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญย ์ค‘์š”ํ•œย ๊ฒƒ์€ย  ์œ„ํ—˜ย ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผย ์ •ํ™•ํžˆย ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธย ํ•ด๊ฒฐย ๋น„์šฉ์„ย ๊ณ„์‚ฐํ•œย ๋’ค, ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธย ๊ฒฐ์ • ์„ย ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š”ย ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์ƒํ™ฉ์—ย ๋”ฐ๋ผย ๋งค์ˆ˜๋ฅผย ํฌ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š”ย ๊ฒƒ์ดย ํ˜„๋ช…ํ• ย ์ˆ˜๋„ย ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋กœย ์œ„ํ—˜ย ์š”์ธ์„ย ๊ฐ์•ˆํ•œย ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉย ํ˜‘์ƒ์ดย ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉดย ์ข‹์€ย ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผย ์žก์„ย ์ˆ˜๋„ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿ’ก ย ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๊ฒ‰๋ณด๊ธฐ์—๋Š”ย ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œย ์ง‘์ด๋ผ๋„, ๋ˆˆ์—ย ๋ณด์ด์ง€ย ์•Š๋Š”ย ๋‚ฉยท๋ผ๋ˆยท์„๋ฉด์€ย ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๊ณผย ์žฌ์‚ฐย ๋ชจ๋‘์—ย ํฐย ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ย ์ค„ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œย ์ฃผํƒย ๊ตฌ๋งคย ์ „์—๋Š”ย ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œย ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€์™€ย ํ•จ๊ป˜ย  ์ •๋ฐ€ย ์ ๊ฒ€(inspection) ์„ย ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜์‹œ๊ธธย ๊ถŒํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์กฐ๊ธˆ์˜ย ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉ์ดย ์ˆ˜์ฒœย ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ย ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ๋น„์™€ย ์ˆ˜๋…„์˜ย ํ›„ํšŒ๋ฅผย ๋ง‰์•„์ค„ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ณ ย ํ˜„๋ช…ํ•œย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผย ์›ํ•˜์‹ ๋‹ค๋ฉด, โ€˜์‹œ์นด๊ณ ย ๋ณต๋•๋ฐฉย ํ•œ์ƒ์ฒ โ€™ 773-717-2227,ย  ChicagoBDB@gmail.com ย ์œผ๋กœย ์ƒ๋‹ดํ•ด๋ณด์‹œ๊ธฐย ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  • ๐Ÿก Before Buying a Home, Check for These Hidden Hazards

    When most homebuyers think of risks, mold is usually the first concern that comes to mind. Itโ€™s visible, familiar, and known to affect health.But there are other, less visible dangers that can pose even greater long-term risks to your home and health.Today , letโ€™s look at three major ones every buyer should know about: Lead, Radon, and Asbestos. 1๏ธโƒฃ Lead Lead exposure can come from old paint, plumbing, or even contaminated soil.If a home was built before 1978 , thereโ€™s a high chance it contains lead-based paint.For children, lead exposure can lead to developmental and neurological issues; in adults, it can cause headaches, fatigue, and anemia. Experts warn that โ€œthe invisible lead dust is more dangerous than peeling paint chipsโ€ because itโ€™s easily inhaled or ingested. A standard home inspection does not include lead testing , so itโ€™s best to hire a certified Lead Inspector .The cost usually ranges from $300 to $700 .If lead is found, a Lead Abatement Professional should handle removal or sealing โ€” costs typically range from $6โ€“$17 per square foot. When addressed properly, lead risks can be safely managed. 2๏ธโƒฃ Radon Radon is a colorless, odorless radioactive gas released from soil and rock beneath homes.It seeps inside through foundation cracks or pipe openings and is known to be the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking โ€” and the leading cause among non-smokers. Every buyer should test for radon before purchasing a home. Testing costs about $75โ€“$250 and is often included in a home inspection.If levels are high, contact a Radon Mitigation Professional , who can install an active depressurization system that vents the gas outside, reducing concentrations by up to 99% . Installation typically costs under $4,000 , depending on the homeโ€™s size.Radon should also be checked periodically , as levels can fluctuate with season, humidity, or home renovations.There are now smart devices that let you monitor radon in real time from your phone. 3๏ธโƒฃ Asbestos Asbestos consists of microscopic fibers that can cause severe lung diseases and cancer years after exposure.It was commonly used in insulation, floor tiles, and roofing materials before 1978. Most home inspections donโ€™t include asbestos testing , so youโ€™ll need a certified Asbestos Inspector .A typical test for a 1,500 sq. ft. home costs $400โ€“$800. If asbestos is found, contact an environmental specialist.If materials are intact, itโ€™s often safer to leave them undisturbed and monitor them. However, if the materials are damaged or deteriorating, professional removal or encapsulation is necessary โ€” usually costing $2,000โ€“$10,000 , depending on the level of contamination. Experts note that โ€œwell-managed asbestos can be safe to live withโ€ โ€” itโ€™s neglect, not presence, that poses the greatest risk. ๐Ÿ  What Buyers Should Keep in Mind If hazardous materials are discovered during inspection, you can request the seller to fix the issue or share the cost. Sellers of pre-1978 homes are legally required to disclose known lead hazards , and some states also require radon and asbestos disclosures. If the home is being sold โ€œAs-Isโ€ , repairs may fall on the buyer โ€” in that case, price negotiation can be an effective strategy.However, keep in mind the seller may have already priced the home accordingly.The goal is to balance the cost of remediation with the propertyโ€™s value.In some situations, walking away might be wise โ€” but in others, negotiation could lead to a great opportunity. ๐Ÿ’ก Final Thoughts Even a house that looks perfect can hide invisible dangers like lead, radon, or asbestos that threaten both your health and investment. Before buying, always work with professionals for a thorough inspection .A few hundred dollars spent on prevention can save you thousands in repairs โ€” and years of regret. For safe and confident home buying in the Chicago suburbs, contact: Chicago Real Estate โ€“ Hansangcheol (ํ•œ์ƒ์ฒ ) ๐Ÿ“ž 773-717-2227 ๐Ÿ“ง ChicagoBDB@gmail.com

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    ์ง‘์„ ํŒ๋งคํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋Š” โ€˜๊ณ„์•ฝ์„œ์— ์„œ๋ช…ํ•œ ์ดํ›„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํด๋กœ์ง•๊นŒ์ง€โ€™์˜ ๊ณผ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ์ด ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋ฌด๋‚œํžˆ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•˜์‹œ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋“ค์–ด ์˜ˆ๊ธฐ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ด์œ ๋กœ ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์„ ์ทจ์†Œํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ก€๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ์”ฉ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹คํ–‰ํžˆ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์˜ˆ๋ฐฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ โ€˜์‚ฌ์ „ ์ ๊ฒ€(Pre-Listing Inspection)โ€™์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„์•ฝ ํŒŒ๊ธฐ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ž์ฃผ ์ผ์–ด๋‚ ๊นŒ์š”? ย  ์ตœ๊ทผย Redfin์˜ ์ž๋ฃŒ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ํ˜„์žฌ ํŽœ๋”ฉ ์ƒํƒœ์˜€๋˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ์ค‘ ์•ฝย 15%๊ฐ€ ํด๋กœ์ง•๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์ค‘๋„์— ์ทจ์†Œ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ์ด์ „(2017~2019๋…„ ํ‰๊ท ย 12%)๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๋†’์•„์ง„ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ‰, 7๊ฑด ์ค‘ย 1๊ฑด ์ •๋„๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์‚ฐ๋˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ย 6๊ฑด์€ ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์—†์ด ํด๋กœ์ง•๊นŒ์ง€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜์„œ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ํ•˜์‹ ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ด โ€˜1๊ฑดโ€™์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜๋งˆ์ €๋„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ค„์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย  ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๊ณ„์•ฝ ํŒŒ๊ธฐ์˜ ์ฃผ๋œ ์›์ธ์„ โ€˜์œต์ž ๋ฌธ์ œโ€™๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ”ํ•œ ์ด์œ ๋Š” โ€˜์ ๊ฒ€(Inspection)๊ณผ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ ๋ฌธ์ œโ€™์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย  ์š”์ฆ˜ ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๋ถ„๋“ค์€ ๋†’์€ ์ง‘๊ฐ’๊ณผ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์ด ๋น ๋“ฏํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉด ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์ ‘๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ โ€˜์ž…์ฃผ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ƒํƒœโ€™๋ฅผ ์„ ํ˜ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์ด ๋งŽ์€ ์ง‘์€ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ตœ๊ทผ์—๋Š” ์„ ํƒํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งค๋ฌผ๋„ ๋งŽ์•„, ์…€๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ํ˜‘์กฐ์ ์ด์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๊ณ  ํŒ๋‹จ๋˜๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋งค๋ฌผ๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ฒจ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย  ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด โ€˜์‚ฌ์ „ ์ ๊ฒ€โ€™์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ย  โ€˜์‚ฌ์ „ ์ ๊ฒ€(Pre-Listing Inspection)โ€™์ด๋ž€, ์ง‘์„ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋‚ด๋†“๊ธฐ ์ „์— ์ „๋ฌธ ์ธ์ŠคํŽ™ํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์ ๊ฒ€๋ฐ›๋Š” ์ ˆ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜๋ฌด ์‚ฌํ•ญ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ตœ๊ทผ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ด ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๊ฑฐ์น˜๋Š” ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์ ์  ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฏธ๋ถ€๋™์‚ฐํ˜‘ํšŒ(NAR)๋Š” ์ด ์ ˆ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์›ํ™œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์ „์— ์ฃผ์š” ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์„ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ณด์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์ดํ›„ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๊ฐ€ ์ดํƒˆํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย  ์‚ฌ์ „ ์ ๊ฒ€์€ ์ผ์ข…์˜ โ€˜์˜ˆ๋ฐฉ์ฃผ์‚ฌโ€™๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐฐ๊ด€ ๋ˆ„์ˆ˜, ์ง€๋ถ• ๋ฌธ์ œ, ์ „๊ธฐ ํŒจ๋„ ๋…ธํ›„ ๋“ฑ ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด ์ธก ์ ๊ฒ€์—์„œ ์ง€์ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์กฐ์น˜ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด, ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์ดํ›„์˜ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค์™€ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ค„์ด์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ํด๋กœ์ง• ์ง์ „์˜ ๋Œ๋ฐœ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๊ณ  ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋กœ์„œ ํ˜‘์ƒ๋ ฅ์„ ๋†’์ด์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย  ๋น„์šฉ ๋Œ€๋น„ ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ์š”? ย  ์‚ฌ์ „ ์ ๊ฒ€ ๋น„์šฉ์€ ๋ณดํ†ต ์ˆ˜๋ฐฑ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ, ์ „์ฒด ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์— ๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉด ํฐ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ •๋ณด์™€ ์•ˆ์ •๊ฐ์€ ๊ทธ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ชจ๋“  ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ผญ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€์—ญ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ํ๋ฆ„์ด ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ์ „๋ฌธ ๋ฆฌ์–ผํ„ฐ์™€ ์ƒ์˜ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฆฌ์–ผํ„ฐ๋Š” ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํŒ๋‹จํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋„์™€๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย  * ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ * ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๋“ค์ด ์ค‘์ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋Š” ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€ * ๋ฏฟ์„ ๋งŒํ•œ ์ „๋ฌธ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๊ธฐ * ์ง€์—ญ๋ณ„ ๊ณต์‹œ ์˜๋ฌด(Disclosure) ๋ฒ•๊ทœ๋ฅผ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋„๋ก ์•ˆ๋‚ด ย  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณผ์ •์„ ๊ฑฐ์น˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์ค€๋น„ ๋‹จ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด, ์˜ˆ์ธก ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ธ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย  ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ย  ์ง‘์„ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋‚ด๋†“๊ธฐ ์ „ ๋‹จ ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ค€๋น„๋กœ ํด๋กœ์ง•๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์„ ์ค„์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ํ•ด๋ณด์‹ค ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์ค‘์— ์˜ˆ๊ธฐ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋งž๋‹ฅ๋œจ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค, ์…€๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ฃผ๋„๊ถŒ ์•„๋ž˜์—์„œ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์ ๊ฒ€๊ณผ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ํŽธ์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ํ˜„๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์ „ ์ ๊ฒ€์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์›ํ™œํ•œ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ โ€˜๋ณดํ—˜โ€™์— ๊ฐ€๊น์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย  ํ˜„์žฌ ์ง‘์„ ๋‚ด๋†“์„ ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋ฏฟ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฆฌ์–ผํ„ฐ์™€ ์ƒ์˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ์‚ฌ์ „ ์ ๊ฒ€์ด ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•ด๋ณด์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋๊นŒ์ง€ โ€˜์ค€๋น„๋œ ์…€๋Ÿฌโ€™๋กœ์„œ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋‚˜์„œ์‹œ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ย  โ€˜์‹œ์นด๊ณ  ๋ณต๋•๋ฐฉ ํ•œ์ƒ์ฒ โ€™ย 773-717-2227, [ ChicagoBDB@gmail.com ]( mailto:ChicagoBDB@gmail.com)

  • ๐Ÿ  For a Smoother Closing: The Power of a Pre-Listing Inspection

    When selling a home, the most critical stage is from contract to closing .Most sellers make it through this period without major issues, but recently, more transactions have been falling apart unexpectedly. The good news is that many of these cancellations can be prevented โ€” and the key is one step: a Pre-Listing Inspection . How Often Do Deals Actually Fall Through? According to recent Redfin data, about 15% of pending home sales fail to close , up slightly from pre-pandemic levels (12% between 2017โ€“2019).In other words, roughly 1 in 7 deals falls apart โ€” but the remaining 6 close successfully. With proper preparation, even that one-in-seven risk can be reduced dramatically. While many sellers assume financing is the main reason for cancellations, the most common culprit is actually inspection and repair issues . Todayโ€™s buyers are stretched thin by high prices and interest rates. Unexpected repair costs can quickly cause them to walk away, especially when other listings are available. Homes that need visible work or appear โ€œunreadyโ€ often lose appeal fast. Why a Pre-Listing Inspection Matters A Pre-Listing Inspection means having your home professionally inspected before putting it on the market.It โ€™s not mandatory, but itโ€™s becoming increasingly popular โ€” and for good reason. The National Association of REALTORSยฎ (NAR) notes that this proactive step helps ensure smoother closings. By identifying and addressing major issues ahead of time โ€” or disclosing them transparently โ€” you prevent last-minute surprises that could cause a buyer to back out. Think of it as a preventive shot for your sale.If an inspector finds leaks, roofing issues, or outdated electrical panels before listing, you can make repairs on your terms โ€” not under contract pressure. This minimizes stress, protects your negotiation power, and helps keep the deal on track through closing. Is It Worth the Cost? A professional pre-listing inspection typically costs only a few hundred dollars โ€” a small investment compared to the value of your transaction. The peace of mind and negotiation advantage it offers are well worth it. Of course, not every market requires it equally. Local conditions vary, so itโ€™s best to consult with a trusted local REALTORยฎ. Together, you can decide: Which issues are worth fixing What buyers in your area prioritize Which contractors or repair specialists to contact How to handle disclosure requirements properly This process turns โ€œjust listing a homeโ€ into a well-planned, low-risk transaction . Final Thoughts If one simple step could reduce your chance of a failed closing, wouldnโ€™t it be worth it?Addressing potential issues before listing โ€” instead of reacting during a contract โ€” gives you confidence and control. A Pre-Listing Inspection isnโ€™t just a cost; itโ€™s an insurance policy for a smooth, successful sale. If youโ€™re planning to list your home soon, talk with a reliable local REALTORยฎ about whether this step makes sense for your situation. Enter the market as a prepared, confident seller โ€” from the very first showing to the closing table. Chicago Real Estate โ€“ Hansangcheol (ํ•œ์ƒ์ฒ ) ๐Ÿ“ž 773-717-2227 ๐Ÿ“ง ChicagoBDB@gmail.com

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    ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ย โ€œ์ง€๊ธˆย ์‹œ์žฅ์ดย ์˜ˆ์ „๊ณผย ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹คโ€๋Š”ย ๋ง์„ย ์ˆซ์ž๋กœย ํ™•์ธํ•ดย ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œย 1~2๋…„ย ์‚ฌ์ดย ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ย ์„œ๋ฒ„๋ธŒย ์ „๋ฐ˜์—์„œย ๋งค๋ฌผ์ดย ๋Š˜๊ณ , ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ผ(Days on Market)์ดย ๊ธธ์–ด์ง€๋ฉฐ, ์ผ๋ถ€ย ์ง€์—ญ์€ย ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ย ๋Œ€๋น„ย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ย ์กฐ์ •๋˜๋Š”ย ํ๋ฆ„์ดย ๋šœ๋ ทํ•ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๊ตญ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋„ย ํ™œ์„ฑย ๋งค๋ฌผ์€ย ์ „๋…„ย ๋Œ€๋น„ย ๋‘ย ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜๋กœย ๋Š˜์—ˆ๊ณ (7~9์›”ย ์—ฐ์†ย ์ฆ๊ฐ€), ํŠนํžˆย โ€˜์ƒˆ๋กœย ๋‚˜์˜จย ๋งค๋ฌผโ€™๋ณด๋‹คย โ€˜ํŒ”๋ฆฌ์ง€ย ์•Š๊ณ ย ๋‚จ์•„ย ์žˆ๋Š”ย ํ™œ์„ฑย ๋งค๋ฌผโ€™์ดย ์žฌ๊ณ ย ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผย ์ด๋Œ๊ณ ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”์ด์–ดย ์ž…์žฅ์—์„ ย ์„ ํƒ์ง€๊ฐ€ย ๋„“์–ด์กŒ๊ณ , ์…€๋Ÿฌย ์ž…์žฅ์—์„ ย ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐย โ€˜์ •ํ™•ํ•œย ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉยท์ค€๋น„๋œย ์ปจ๋””์…˜ยท์ง‘์ค‘ย ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…โ€™์ดย ์Šน๋ถ€๋ฅผย ๊ฐ€๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย  ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ย ์„œ๋ฒ„๋ธŒย ํ•ต์‹ฌย ์ง€์—ญย ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์—ย ๋ณด๊ธฐย (2025๋…„ย ๊ฐ€์„ย ๊ธฐ์ค€) Naperville : 60565 ์ง€์—ญย ๊ธฐ์ค€ย ์ค‘๊ฐ„ย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฐ€๋Š”ย ์ „๋…„ย ๋Œ€๋น„ย ์†Œํญย ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒย ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ผ์ดย ๋Š˜๊ณ ย ์žˆ๊ณ , ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌย ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŒ…์—์„œย โ€˜๊ฐ€๊ฒฉย ์กฐ์ •โ†’๊ณ„์•ฝโ€™ ํŒจํ„ด์ดย ๊ด€์ฐฐ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŒ…ย ๋Œ€๋น„ย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ย ๊ฑฐ์˜ย ๋ถ™๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ย ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ย ๋‚ฎ๊ฒŒย ์ฒด๊ฒฐ๋˜๋Š”ย ์ผ€์ด์Šค๊ฐ€ย ๋Š˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย  Glenview : 60026(๊ธ€๋ Œยทํƒ€์›Œ) ๋“ฑย ์„ธ๋ถ€ย ๋งˆ์ผ“์—์„œย ์žฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ย ๋ˆ„์ ๋˜๋ฉฐย ์ผ๋ถ€ย ์ฝ˜๋„/ํƒ€์šดํ™ˆ์€ย ๋งค์ˆ˜์žย ์šฐ์œ„๋กœย ์ ‘์–ด๋“ ย ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์ดย ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€˜์ ์ •๊ฐ€ย ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธโ€™๊ฐ€ย ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ผ์„ย ํ˜„์ €ํžˆย ์ค„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย  Schaumburg : ํƒ€์šดํ™ˆ/์ฝ˜๋„ย ๋งค๋ฌผย ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ย ํ•จ๊ป˜ย ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ผ์ดย ๋Š˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ํ˜„๊ธˆยท์ฝ˜๋ฒค์…”๋„ย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด์˜ย ํ˜‘์ƒ๋ ฅ์ดย ํšŒ๋ณต๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดˆ๊ธฐย ๊ณผ๋Œ€ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ย ๋งค๋ฌผ์€ย ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉย ์ˆ˜์ •์„ย ๊ฑฐ์ณย ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋˜๋Š”ย ๋น„์œจ์ดย ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย  Northbrook : ๋‹จ๋…์ฃผํƒ์€ย ํ•™๊ตฐยท์„ธ๊ทธ๋จผํŠธ๋ณ„๋กœย ์–‘๊ทนํ™”๊ฐ€ย ์ง„ํ–‰ย ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณด์ˆ˜ยท์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๊ฐ€ย ์„ ํ–‰๋œย ๋งค๋ฌผ์€ย ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ, ๋ฐ˜๋ฉดย ๋ฏธ์ˆ˜์„ ย ๋งค๋ฌผ์€ย ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉย ์กฐ์ •ย ํ›„ย ๊ณ„์•ฝ๋˜๋Š”ย ํ๋ฆ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย  Hinsdale : ํ”„๋ผ์ž„ย ์ž…์ง€ย ๋‹จ๋…์€ย ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆย ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ย ํƒ„ํƒ„ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ผ์ดย ์˜ˆ๋…„๋ณด๋‹คย ๊ธธ์–ด์กŒ๊ณ (ํŠนํžˆย ๊ณ ๊ฐ€๋Œ€) ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด์˜ย ์ธ์ŠคํŽ™์…˜ยท์ปจ์„ธ์…˜ย ์š”๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ย ๋Š˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธย ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ย ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์œผ๋กœย ์žก์€ย ๋งค๋ฌผ์˜ย ํšŒ์ „์œจ์ดย ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย  ย  ์ „๊ตญย ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋„ย ์„œ๋ฒ„๋ธŒย ํ๋ฆ„์„ย ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 7~9์›”ย ์—ฐ์†์œผ๋กœย  ํ™œ์„ฑย ๋งค๋ฌผย YoY ๋‘ย ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ย ์ฆ๊ฐ€ (7์›”ย +24.8%, 8์›”ย +20.9%, 9์›”ย +17%), โ€˜์ƒˆย ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŒ…โ€™๋ณด๋‹คย โ€˜๋‚จ์•„ย ์žˆ๋Š”ย ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŒ…โ€™์ดย ๋Š˜์–ดย  ์žฌ๊ณ ย ํšŒ๋ณต์˜ย ์ฃผ์ถ• ์ดย ๋œย ๊ฒƒ์ดย ํŠน์ง•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š”ย โ€œ์ฒ˜์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐย ๋งž๋Š”ย ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉยท๋น ๋ฅธย ์ˆ˜์„ ยท์™„์„ฑ๋„ย ๋†’์€ย ์—ฐ์ถœโ€์˜ย ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ย ํ‚ค์šฐ๊ณ , ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด์—๊ฒŒ๋Š”ย  ํ˜‘์ƒ๋ ฅ๊ณผย ์„ ํƒ์ง€ ๋ฅผย ๋Œ๋ ค์ฃผ๊ณ ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย  ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๋ผ๋ฉดย ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒย ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉดย ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌยท์›”๋‚ฉ์ž…ย ์žฌ๊ณ„์‚ฐ : ์ตœ๊ทผย ๋ช‡ย ๋‹ฌย ์‚ฌ์ดย ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌย ๋ณ€๋™์œผ๋กœย ์›”ย ๋ถ€๋‹ด์ดย ์™„๋งŒํžˆย ๋‚ฎ์•„์ง„ย ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์ดย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ์Šน์ธ(ํ”„๋ฆฌ์–ดํ”„๋กœ๋ฒŒ) ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ย ์ตœ์‹ ํ™”ํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉดย ์„ ํƒ์ง€๊ฐ€ย ๋„“์–ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย  ๋™๋„ค๋ณ„ย ์†๋„ย ์ฐจย ์ฒดํฌ : ๊ฐ™์€ย ์„œ๋ฒ„๋ธŒ๋ผ๋„ย ์„ธ๊ทธ๋จผํŠธ๋งˆ๋‹คย ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ผยทํ˜‘์ƒย ์—ฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ย ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ: ๋‚˜ํŽ˜๋นŒย ๋‹จ๋…๊ณผย ์ƒด๋ฒ„๊ทธย ํƒ€์šดํ™ˆ์€ย ์ „๋žต์ดย ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย  ์ดˆ๊ธฐย ํ˜‘์ƒย ์นด๋“œย ํ™•๋ณด : ์ธ์ŠคํŽ™์…˜ย ์ด์Šˆ(์ง€๋ถ•ยทHVACยท์ฐฝํ˜ธ)์™€ย ๋งˆ๊ฐ๋น„(ํด๋กœ์ง•ย ํฌ๋ ˆ๋”ง)๋ฅผย ํŒจํ‚ค์ง€๋กœย ์ œ์•ˆํ•˜๋ฉดย ์„ฑ์‚ฌ์œจ์ดย ๋†’์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™œ์„ฑย ๋งค๋ฌผ์ดย ๋ˆ„์ ๋œย ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์ผ์ˆ˜๋กย ์œ ํšจํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย  ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋ผ๋ฉดย ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒย ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”ํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค ์ฒซย 14์ผย ์ „๋žต : ์กฐํšŒยท๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์ดย ์ง‘์ค‘๋˜๋Š”ย ์ดˆ๊ธฐย 2์ฃผ์—ย ์Šน๋ถ€๋ฅผย ๋ณด๋ ค๋ฉดย  ์ •ํ™•ํ•œย โ€˜์ฒซย ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉโ€™ ์ดย ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๊ตญ์ ์œผ๋กœย  ์ดˆ๊ธฐย ๊ณผ๋Œ€ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€โ†’์žฅ๊ธฐย ์ฒด๋ฅ˜โ†’๊ฐ€๊ฒฉย ์ธํ•˜ ย ์ˆœ์„œ๋ฅผย ๋ฐŸ๋Š”ย ๋งค๋ฌผ์ดย ๋Š˜๊ณ ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย  ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจย ์ˆ˜์„ ยท์—ฐ์ถœ์˜ย ROI : ์ง€๋ถ•ยท์™ธ์žฅย ํŠธ๋ฆผย ๋ณด์ˆ˜, ์กฐ๋ช…ยท๋„์žฅย ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ, ๋ฌด์ทจ/์ค‘์„ฑย ํ–ฅ๊ธฐย ์—ฐ์ถœย ๋“ฑ์€ย ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ผ์„ย ์ค„์ด๊ณ ย ํ˜‘์ƒย ํญ์„ย ์ขํž™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค(๊ฐ€์„ย ์‹œ์ฆŒย ํšจ๊ณผ).ย  ์ฑ„๋„ย ๋ฏน์Šคย ์—…๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ : ์‚ฌ์ง„ยท์˜์ƒย + ๋‹จ์ง€/ํ•™๊ตฐย ๋ฆฌํฌํŠธย + ์†Œ์…œย ๋ฆด์Šคย ํŒจํ‚ค์ง€๋กœย ์ฒซย ๋…ธ์ถœย ์ž„ํŒฉํŠธ๋ฅผย ํ‚ค์šฐ๋ฉดย โ€˜์ €์žฅยท๊ณต์œ โ€™๊ฐ€ย ๋Š˜์–ดย ์ดˆ๊ธฐย ๋ฌธ์˜๊ฐ€ย ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (์ง€์—ญ๋ณ„ย ์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ผย ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋กœย ํ›„ํ‚น) ์ง€์—ญ๋ณ„ย โ€œ๋น ๋ฅธย ์ฒดํฌ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธโ€ Naperville : ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋œย ์ฃผ๋ฐฉ/์š•์‹คย + ์ง€๋ถ•ยทHVAC ์ ๊ฒ€ย ์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ฅผย ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉดย ์ฒซย ์ฃผย ๋ฌธ์˜๊ฐ€ย ์œ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜๊ฒŒย ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ดˆ๊ธฐย ๋ชฉํ‘œ๊ฐ€๋ฅผย โ€˜์ตœ๊ทผย 30์ผย ์ฒด๊ฒฐ๊ฐ€โ€™ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋กœย ์„ค์ •ํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.ย  Glenview : ์ฝ˜๋„/ํƒ€์šดํ™ˆ์€ย HOA ์ž๋ฃŒย ์ •๋ฆฌ(์ ๋ฆฝ๊ธˆยทํ‰๊ฐ€ย ์˜ˆ์ •ย ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ)์™€ย ์‹ ์†ํ•œย ์ธ์ŠคํŽ™์…˜ย ๋Œ€์‘์ดย ๊ด€๊ฑด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย  Schaumburg : 3๋ฒ ๋“œย ํƒ€์šดํ™ˆย ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ย ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๊ฐ€ย ๋งŽ์€ย ๋™ย ๋ผ์ธ์—…(ํ•™๊ตยท๊ตํ†ต) ๊ฐ•์กฐ์™€ย ํ•จ๊ป˜, ๊ฐ€๋ฒผ์šดย ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅยทํŽ˜์ธํŠธย ๊ต์ฒด์˜ย ์ฒด๊ฐํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ย ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย  Northbrook : ํ•™๊ตฐย ์ˆ˜์š”์ธตย ๋Œ€์ƒย โ€˜์กฐ์šฉํ•œย ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌํŠธโ€™ ์žฅ์ ์„ย ๋น„์ฃผ์–ผ๋กœย ๊ทน๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•œย ๋งค๋ฌผ์€ย ์ปจ์„ธ์…˜ย ํ”Œ๋žœ(์ง€๋ถ•ยท์ฐฝํ˜ธย ํฌ๋ ˆ๋”ง)์„ย ์‚ฌ์ „์—ย ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.ย  Hinsdale : ํ”„๋ผ์ž„ย ์„ธ๊ทธ๋จผํŠธ๋Š”ย  ์ •๋ฐ€ย ๊ฐ์ •๊ฐ€ ๋กœย ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉย ์‹ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผย ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋ฉดย ํ˜‘์ƒย ๊ณต์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ย ์ค„์–ด๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย  ๊ฒฐ๋ก  ์ง€๊ธˆ์˜ย ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ย ์„œ๋ฒ„๋ธŒย ์‹œ์žฅ์€ย  ๋”ย ๋งŽ์€ย ์„ ํƒ์ง€์™€ย ๋”ย ๊ธธ์–ด์ง„ย ํ˜‘์ƒย ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ” ์ดย ๊ณต์กดํ•˜๋Š”ย ๊ตญ๋ฉด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๋Š”ย ๋ฐœํ’ˆ์„ย ํŒ”์ˆ˜๋กย โ€˜๊ฐ€์น˜ย ์žˆ๋Š”ย ๋งค๋ฌผโ€™์„ย ๋งŒ๋‚ ย ํ™•๋ฅ ์ดย ๋†’์•„์ง€๊ณ , ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋Š”ย  ์ดˆ๊ธฐย 2์ฃผย ์ „๋žต ๊ณผย  ์ •ํ™•ํ•œย ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์œผ๋กœย ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆย ๋น ๋ฅธย ํŒ๋งค๋ฅผย ์ด๋Œ์–ด๋‚ผย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋กœย ๋™๋„ค๋ฅผย ์ฝ๊ณ , ์ผ€์ด์Šค๋ณ„๋กœย ์ „๋žต์„ย ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋Š”ย ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๊ฐ€ย ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ๋ฝย ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉดย ๋™๋„ค๋ณ„ย ์ตœ์‹ ย ์ฒด๊ฒฐ๊ฐ€ยท์ฒด๋ฅ˜์ผยท๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์กฐ์ •ย ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋ฅผย ํ•œย ๋ฒˆ์—ย ๋ณด์—ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 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  • ๐Ÿก 2025 Housing Market: A Window of Opportunity for Buyers

    Youโ€™ve probably heard people say, โ€œThe market isnโ€™t what it used to be.โ€Letโ€™s look at the numbers behind that statement. Over the past year or two, inventory has been rising across the Chicago suburbs โ€” and homes are staying on the market longer. In many areas, weโ€™re seeing more price adjustments before contracts , and final sale prices slightly below asking . Nationwide, active inventory has climbed by double digits for three consecutive months (July +24.8%, August +20.9%, September +17%). Whatโ€™s driving this? Not just new listings โ€” but unsold active listings accumulating on the market. For buyers, this means more choices and stronger negotiation power .For sellers, success now hinges on accurate pricing, strong condition, and focused marketing from day one. ๐Ÿ“ Snapshot: Key Chicago Suburban Markets (Fall 2025) Naperville In ZIP 60565, median sale prices are slightly up year-over-year, but days on market are longer. Price reductions followed by quick contracts are increasingly common. Glenview In 60026 (Glen & Tower area), inventory has built up โ€” especially in condos and townhomes, where buyers now have the upper hand. Homes priced right from the start are selling noticeably faster. Schaumburg With more condo/townhome listings on the market, days on market have lengthened. Cash and conventional buyers have regained leverage, and most overlisted homes are selling only after price corrections. Northbrook Single-family homes are showing polarization: updated, move-in-ready homes sell quickly, while dated properties are sitting longer and require price adjustments to move. Hinsdale Prime single-family homes remain in demand, but higher-end listings are taking longer to close. Buyers are negotiating more on inspections and concessions. Conservative starting prices are performing best. ๐Ÿงญ National Data Mirrors Local Trends From July through September, active inventory rose by double digits year-over-year โ€” driven more by unsold listings than new supply. This confirms a market in transition โ€” where precise pricing, timely repairs, and high-quality presentation matter more than ever, giving buyers space to explore and negotiate. ๐Ÿ‘ฅ For Buyers: Smart Moves in Todayโ€™s Market Recalculate Affordability With recent rate shifts, monthly payments have eased slightly. Refresh your pre-approval to expand your range of options. Compare Market Speeds by Neighborhood Days on market and negotiation trends differ even within the same suburb. For instance, Naperville single-family homes move differently than Schaumburg townhomes. Leverage Negotiation Tools Combine inspection repairs (roof, HVAC, windows) and closing credits into one offer โ€” especially effective in high-inventory areas. ๐Ÿ  For Sellers: How to Stand Out Win the First 14 Days Most views and showings happen in the first two weeks โ€” your initial list price is crucial. Homes that start too high often follow the same cycle: overprice โ†’ sit โ†’ reduce โ†’ sell lower. Small Repairs, Big ROI Touch up roofing or trim, refresh lighting and paint, and keep your home neutral and odor-free โ€” small upgrades can shorten days on market. Upgrade Your Marketing Mix Combine photography, video, school/district reports, and social reels to boost visibility. Local market data makes a strong โ€œfirst impression hook.โ€ ๐Ÿ—บ Quick Local Tips Naperville: Updated kitchens/baths + maintenance records (roof/HVAC) drive early inquiries. Price within recent 30-day sold range. Glenview: Prepare HOA documents (reserves, planned assessments) and respond fast to inspection requests. Schaumburg: Demand for 3-bed townhomes remains strong. Highlight location and school zones; minor flooring or paint refresh adds appeal. Northbrook: Emphasize quiet-street advantages with visuals. Pre-plan concessions (roof/window credits) for older homes. Hinsdale: Secure an accurate appraisal for pricing credibility; it strengthens negotiations and builds buyer confidence. ๐Ÿงฉ Bottom Line The current Chicago suburban market blends more inventory with longer negotiations โ€” but also more opportunity on both sides. Buyers who stay active and informed are finding real value.Sellers who nail their first-two-weeks strategy and price precisely are still achieving fast, strong sales. In a market like this, data-driven strategy is everything.If youโ€™d like to see neighborhood-level reports on sale prices, days on market, and price adjustments , reach out today. Chicago Real Estate โ€“ Sangchul Han (ํ•œ์ƒ์ฒ ) ๐Ÿ“ž 773-717-2227 ๐Ÿ“ง ChicagoBDB@gmail.com

  • ๊ฐ€์„ย ์ง‘ย ํŒ๋งค, ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ย ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ย ์ขŒ์šฐํ•œ๋‹ค

    ์ง‘์„ย ํŒ”ย ๋•Œย ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ย ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋Š”ย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๊ฐ€ย  ๋ˆˆ์œผ๋กœย ๋ณด๋Š”ย ๊ฒƒ ์—ย ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒย ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๊ฐ€ย  ์ง‘์—ย ๋“ค์–ด์„œ๋Š”ย ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ย ๋งก๋Š”ย ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ ย ๋˜ํ•œย ์ฒซ์ธ์ƒ์„ย ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š”ย ์ค‘์š”ํ•œย ์š”์†Œ๋ผ๊ณ ย ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์„์€ย ํŠนํžˆย ์—ฐ๋ง์„ย ์•ž๋‘๊ณ ย ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ย ํ™œ๋ฐœํ•œย ๋งค๋งคย ์‹œ์ฆŒ์ด๊ธฐย ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผย ์‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š”ย ์ž‘์€ย ๋””ํ…Œ์ผย ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ย ๋งค๋งคย ์„ฑ์‚ฌ์—ย ํฐย ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผย ๋งŒ๋“คย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์„ย ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ดย ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์—ย ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š”ย ์˜ํ–ฅ ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๋Š”ย ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œย ๋ƒ„์ƒˆ๋ฅผย ๋„˜์–ดย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด์˜ย ๊ฐ์ •์—ย ์ง์ ‘์ ์œผ๋กœย ์ž‘์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œย ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋Š”ย ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ย ์‹œ๊ฐ์ ย ์š”์†Œ๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ย ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒย ๊ฐ์ •์„ย ์ž๊ทนํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ ย ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ„์ ˆ๊ฐย ์žˆ๋Š”ย ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๋Š”ย ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ ย ์•„๋Š‘ํ•œย ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผย ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ดย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๊ฐ€ย ์ง‘์„ย  โ€˜์ง‘์ฒ˜๋Ÿผย ๋А๋ผ๋„๋กโ€™ ย ๋„์™€์ค€๋‹ค๊ณ ย ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆย ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ย ์„œ๋ฒ„๋ธŒย ์ง€์—ญ์˜ย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๋“ค์€ย ๋‚™์—ฝ์ดย ๋ฌผ๋“œ๋Š”ย ๊ณ„์ ˆ์—ย ๊ฐ€์กฑ์ ์ธย ๊ณต๊ฐ„, ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œย ์˜จ๊ธฐ๋ฅผย ๋”์šฑย ์ฐพ๋Š”ย ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ดย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œย ๊ฐ€์„ย ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผย ๋”ํ•ด์ฃผ๋Š”ย ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๋Š”ย ์ง‘์„ย ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์œผ๋กœย ๋ณด์ด๊ฒŒย ํ•˜๋Š”ย ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œย ๋„๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ย ๋ ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด์—๊ฒŒย ํ˜ธ๊ฐ์„ย ์ฃผ๋Š”ย ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์ ์ธย ๊ฐ€์„ย ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ Apple Cinnamon ๊ฐ€์กฑย ๋ชจ์ž„๊ณผย ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œย ๊ธฐ์–ต์„ย ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒย ํ•˜์—ฌย ์ฆ‰๊ฐ์ ์ธย ์นœ๊ทผ๊ฐ์„ย ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ, ๊ณ„ํ”ผย ํ–ฅ์ดย ๊ณผํ•˜๋ฉดย ์˜คํžˆ๋ คย ๋ถˆ์พŒ๊ฐ์„ย ์ค„ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆย ์ ๋‹นํžˆย ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š”ย ๊ฒƒ์ดย ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Vanilla ๋˜๋Š”ย ๊ตฌ์šดย ๋นตยท์ฟ ํ‚คย ํ–ฅ ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด์—๊ฒŒย ํ™˜์˜๋ฐ›๋Š”ย ๋А๋‚Œ์„ย ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ, ์ง‘์„ย ํŽธ์•ˆํ•˜๊ณ ย ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ฒŒย ๋А๋ผ๋„๋กย ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœย ์˜คํ”ˆํ•˜์šฐ์Šคย ์ „์—ย ์ฟ ํ‚ค๋ฅผย ๊ตฌ์šฐ๋ฉดย ์ง‘ย ์•ˆ์ดย ํ›จ์”ฌย ๋”ย ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์œผ๋กœย ๋А๊ปด์ง€๊ณคย ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Pumpkin Spice ๊ณ„์ ˆ์ ย ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•จ๊ณผย ์ถ•์ œย ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผย ์ž๊ทนํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ, ํ–ฅ์ดย ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๋ฉดย ๋‘ํ†ต์„ย ์œ ๋ฐœํ• ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์œผ๋ฏ€๋กœย ์€์€ํ•˜๊ฒŒย ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š”ย ๊ฒƒ์ดย ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Crisp Linen ๋˜๋Š”ย Fall Rain ๊น”๋”ํ•˜๊ณ ย ์ƒˆย ์ถœ๋ฐœ์„ย ์—ฐ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š”ย ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๋กœ, ์˜คํ”ˆํ•˜์šฐ์Šค์—์„œย ์ง‘์„ย ๊นจ๋—ํ•˜๊ณ ย ์‹ ์„ ํ•˜๊ฒŒย ๋А๋ผ๋„๋กย ๋งŒ๋“ญ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Cedarwood, Sandalwood ์•ˆ์ •๊ฐ๊ณผย ๊ณ ๊ธ‰์Šค๋Ÿฌ์›€์„ย ์ฃผ๋Š”ย ๋‚˜๋ฌดย ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ, ๊นŠ์ดย ์žˆ๋Š”ย ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผย ์›ํ•˜๋Š”ย ๊ฒฝ์šฐย ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ย ์˜คํžˆ๋ คย ๋…์ดย ๋ ย ๋•Œ ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ๋ฅผย ์‚ฌ์šฉํ• ย ๋•Œย ๊ฐ€์žฅย ์ฃผ์˜ํ•ด์•ผย ํ• ย ์ ์€ย  ๊ณผ๋„ํ•จ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ˆ๋ฌดย ๊ฐ•ํ•œย ํ–ฅ์€ย ์˜คํžˆ๋ คย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด์—๊ฒŒย โ€œ์ง‘ย ์•ˆ์˜ย ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผย ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ๊ณ ย ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๋Š”ย ์˜์‹ฌ์„ย ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผํ‚ฌย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœย ์–ด๋–คย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๋Š”ย ์ง‘์—ย ๋“ค์–ด์„œ์ž๋งˆ์žย ๊ฐ•ํ•œย ํ–ฅ์—ย ๋ถˆํŽธํ•จ์„ย ๋А๋ผ๊ณ ย ์ง‘ย ์•ˆ์˜ย ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผย ์ฐพ์œผ๋ คย ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š”ย ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋„ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œย ๋ฐฉ๋งˆ๋‹คย ์„œ๋กœย ๋‹ค๋ฅธย ํ–ฅ์„ย ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š”ย ๊ฒƒ๋„ย ํ”ผํ•ด์•ผย ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ผ๋ฒค๋”์™€ย ์†”ํ–ฅ์ดย ์„ž์ด๋ฉดย ํ˜ผ๋ž€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šดย ์ธ์ƒ์„ย ์ค„ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹คย ์ค‘์š”ํ•œย ๊ฒƒ์€ย  ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธย ์ฒญ์†Œ์™€ย ํ™˜๊ธฐ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ, ์นดํŽซ, ์ปคํŠผ, ๊ฐ€๊ตฌย ๋“ฑ์„ย ์ฒ ์ €ํžˆย ์ฒญ์†Œํ•˜๊ณ ย ํ™˜๊ธฐ์‹œํ‚จย ํ›„, ์€์€ํ•œย ํ–ฅ์„ย ๋”ํ•˜๋Š”ย ๊ฒƒ์ดย ๊ฐ€์žฅย ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๋ก  ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๋Š”ย ์ง‘์—ย ๋“ค์–ด์„œ๋Š”ย ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ย ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆย ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋‚˜ย ํฌ๊ธฐ๋งŒย ๋ณด๋Š”ย ๊ฒƒ์ดย ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผย  ๋А๋‚Œ ์„ย ์ฐพ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธย ๋А๋‚Œ์„ย ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ฃผ๋Š”ย ๊ฐ€์žฅย ๋น ๋ฅธย ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•ย ์ค‘ย ํ•˜๋‚˜๊ฐ€ย ๋ฐ”๋กœย  ํ–ฅ๊ธฐ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์„ย ๋งค๋งคย ์‹œ์ฆŒ์—ย ์ง‘์„ย ๋‚ด๋†“์œผ์‹ ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ž‘์€ย ๋””ํ…Œ์ผ์ดย ํฐย ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผย ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค๋Š”ย ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ย ๊ผญย ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜์‹œ๊ธธย ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ย ์„œ๋ฒ„๋ธŒย ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œย ์ง‘์„ย ํŒŒ์‹คย ๊ณ„ํš์ด๋ผ๋ฉด, ์–ด๋–คย ์ค€๋น„๊ฐ€ย ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด์—๊ฒŒย ๊ฐ€์žฅย ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œย ์ธ์ƒ์„ย ์ค„ย ์ˆ˜ย ์žˆ์„์ง€ย ์ง€๊ธˆย ๋ฐ”๋กœย ์ƒ๋‹ดํ•ดย ๋ณด์‹œ๊ธธย ๊ถŒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ย ๋ณต๋•๋ฐฉย ํ•œ์ƒ์ฒ  ๐Ÿ“žย 773-717-2227 ๐Ÿ“งย  ChicagoBDB@gmail.com

  • ๐Ÿ‚ Fall Home Selling: The Scent That Sells

    When selling a home, most sellers focus on what buyers see . But experts say what buyers smell when they first walk in can be just as powerful. Fall is the final stretch of the active home-selling season, and during this time, the smallest details โ€” including scent โ€” can make the biggest difference in whether your home sells quickly or lingers on the market. How Fall Scents Influence Buyers Scent works on emotion faster than visuals. Seasonal, cozy aromas help buyers feel at home the moment they step inside. In the Chicago suburbs especially, as the leaves turn and the weather cools, buyers are drawn to spaces that feel warm, inviting, and family-oriented . The right fragrance can quietly enhance that feeling. Best Fall Scents for Home Showings โ€ข Apple Cinnamon โ€“ Evokes warmth and family gatherings. Use lightly to avoid an overpowering cinnamon note. โ€ข Vanilla or Freshly Baked Cookies โ€“ Creates a welcoming, homey atmosphere. Baking a small batch of cookies before an open house is a timeless trick. โ€ข Pumpkin Spice โ€“ Reminds buyers of fall festivities and comfort. Keep it subtle โ€” too strong can cause headaches. โ€ข Crisp Linen or Fall Rain โ€“ Suggests cleanliness and a fresh start โ€” perfect for showcasing a well-kept home. โ€ข Cedarwood or Sandalwood โ€“ Adds depth, calmness, and a hint of sophistication to the space. When Scents Backfire The biggest mistake sellers make is using too much scent . Overpowering fragrances can make buyers suspicious โ€” they might think youโ€™re masking odors or hiding an issue. Also, avoid mixing too many fragrances in different rooms. Lavender in one space and pine in another can feel confusing. The foundation of a good scent strategy is a clean, well-ventilated home โ€” fragrance should enhance, not conceal. The Bottom Line Buyers donโ€™t just see your home โ€” they feel it. And one of the quickest ways to create that emotional connection is through scent. If youโ€™re planning to sell this fall, remember: small details like fragrance can make a big difference. Ready to prepare your home for the Chicago suburban market? Letโ€™s talk about what makes your home unforgettable. Chicago Real Estate โ€“ Hansangcheol (ํ•œ์ƒ์ฒ ) ๐Ÿ“ž 773-717-2227 ๐Ÿ“ง ChicagoBDB@gmail.com

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