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GREAT EXPECTATIONS NORTH SHORE REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS BELIEVE THE 2022 MARKET WILL PICK UP WHERE IT LEFT OFF IN 2021, BUT THERE ARE FACTORS THAT COULD MAKE IT UNPREDICTABLE.

Story on PG 8 This home at 744 Prospect Avenue in Winnetka was sold in September 2021 by @properties agent Jena Radnay. It is one of many luxury homes sold during the blockbuster 2021 market.

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JEFF FOLKER 847.504.6182

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Award-winning agent with aBA of Architecture, 20+ years in corporate sales & consulting, Master of Banking & Finance, Stonier, Wharton, practiced architecture for 20 years.

2-term member of LF District 67 School Board. U of Penn. 25 years in Comm. Bank & Mang.

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LFC PARTNERS WELCOMES JENNIFER MOWER Jennifer Camino Mower was born and raised in Lake Forest and moved back 18 years ago from Chicago with her husband to raise their three children.

Jennifer has a passion for interior design, antiques and accessory hunting and her incredible community. She has been involved with the Lake Forest Chapter of Infant Welfare Society of Chicago since 2004 having worked on the past 9 Showhouse & Gardens, co-chairing two and serving as President from 2017-2020. She has also served on the Lake Forest Junior Garden Club, the Northwestern Memorial Lake Forest Hospital Women’s Board and various committees within the Lake Forest School Districts.

Jennifer received a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Resource Management from Boston College and spent many years working with boards in development for not-for-profits in Chicago. She has worked at Anna’s Warehouse & Marketplace in Highwood for over a decade, where she enjoys helping people curate beautiful furnishings for their homes in addition to helping many within the community organize, stage and repurpose their treasures.

With her natural propensity for personable customer service, friendly demeanor and effective relationship building skills coupled with her enthusiasm for Lake Forest and the Northshore, she is excited to join our team.

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$83+ MILLION IN SOLD & PENDING HOMES IN 2O21* THANK YOU FOR MAKING 2021 SUCH A WONDERFUL YEAR *MRED, LLC, based on closed sales data , 1/1/2021-12/31/2021 **Buyer Represented ***Buyer & Seller Represented

SOLD

SOLD

SOLD

SOLD

SOLD

SOLD

395 GREEN BAY **

316 SUNSET **

720 BROADSMOORE

330 N MAYFLOWER

901 SPRING

100 PEMBROKE

$5,000,000

$3,775,000

$2,825,000

$2,600,000

$2,450,000

$2,300,000

LAKE FOREST

SOLD

WINNETKA

SOLD

LAKE FOREST

SOLD

LAKE FOREST

LAKE FOREST

SOLD

SOLD

SOLD

905 ILLINOIS

1280 KENNICOTT **

254 BUTLER

W30857010 HIGHWAY **

920 HAWTHORNE

$2,300,000

$2,225,000

$2,017,500

$2,000,000

$1,950,000

LAKE FOREST

SOLD

LAKE FOREST

SOLD

LAKE FOREST

SOLD

MUKWONGO, WI

LAKE FOREST

SOLD

SOLD

975 ARMOUR

847 N. MCKINLEY ***

500 MCCORMICK

914 NORTHWOODS **

$1,575,000

$1,480,000

$1,420,000

$1,400,000

$1,375,000

LAKE FOREST

LAKE FOREST

LAKE FOREST

845 WALDEN LAKE FOREST

$1,625,000

SOLD

603 MAPLE LAKE BLUFF

LAKE FOREST

DEERFIELD

SOLD

1300 LOCH

LAKE FOREST

$1,250,000

SOLD

SOLD

SOLD

103 INDIAN RIDGE

5892 PARTRIDGE

472 E. ILLINOIS **

1875 SURREY **

1770 PARLIAMENT

1591 WEDGEWOOD LAKE

$1,235,000

$1,140,000

$1,125,000

$1,085,000

$840,000

$830,000

METTAWA

SOLD

LONG GROVE

SOLD

44 HOLABIRD LOOP

504 TORREY PINES **

$750,000

$730,000

HIGHWOOD

SOLD

VERNON HILLS

SOLD

SOLD

LAKE FOREST

SOLD

LAKE FOREST

584 WHARTON

$690,000

$650,000

SOLD

LAKE FOREST

SOLD

SOLD

5 W. LOUIS

LAKE FOREST

SOLD

LAKE FOREST

SOLD

FOREST

SOLD

1732 ERIC **

558 RIVERSHIRE

$615,000

$565,000

LIBERTYVILLE

LINCOLNSHIRE

SOLD

THIS REPRESENTS ONLY SOME OF OUR 2021 SALES...

560 STOCKBRIDGE

2286 SARAZEN

245 CRESCENT KNOLL**

290 LEONARD WOOD

815 SAFFFORD **

$560,000

$555,000

$495,000

$440,000

$403,000

LAKE FOREST

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GREEN OAKS

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cheers to the new year!

T H A N K YO U T O M Y C L I E N T S FOR A SUCCESSFUL 2021!

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IN SOLD AND UNDER CONTRACT**

CHICAGO MAGAZINE***

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We are proud to support our clients in making informed decisions about the buying and selling process.

How can we help you make your next move this year?

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NEWS GREAT EXPECTATIONS

From PG 1

BY MITCH HURST THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

Real estate brokers don’t like to predict the future. Maybe it’s a bit of superstition, combined with having been in the trenches and watching markets behave in strange ways.

If you’d have told brokers in early Spring 2020, that the last half of 2020 and all of 2021 the market would go gangbusters, they’d have looked at you as if you sported two heads.

But it never hurts to try to gain some insight into the market from those who know it best. To kick off the new year, The North Shore Weekend surveyed a number of brokers who work on the North Shore about their expectations for the 2022 market.

While optimism remains high, there are factors—the threat of rising interest rates, new strains of the coronavirus—that could slow it down.

“There's great momentum from 2021 carrying over to 2022,” says Laura Fitzpatrick, Senior Broker with @properties in Wilmette. “There's still an incredible demand from buyers moving up from the city and moving in from out of state.”

Fitzpatrick says that while demand re-

Right now, Fitzpatrick says, a lot of the inventory is being listed by people who aren’t remaining in the area.

“The challenge is how do you move within your own market? If you're selling in a high market, you're buying in the same market, and if you have nowhere to go, it's kind of a wash,” she says. “I'm seeing the most success from sellers who are selling high and then moving to other cities that are still very affordable.”

All towns and villages across the North Shore were hot during 2021, including Winnetka. This property at 1304 Trap Lane, which was listed by Jena Radnay of @properties, closed in November.

mains through the roof, the ongoing challenge as we transition into a new year is inventory, which is the lowest it’s been in decades. Until the inventory opens up, it’s tricky for buyers to find a home, and they need to be patient. But she’s seeing signs of more sellers on the horizon.

“I know that a lot of sellers are keeping an eye on what their neighbor’s house has been selling for,” she says. “They’re following the real estate websites and as prices continue to increase it becomes more appealing to them.”

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Another challenge in 2022 could be rising interest rates.

“I think eventually as the interest rates trend up, we will see a bit of a slowdown, but we are not sure when that will happen,” says Fitzpatrick. “I know that is driving a lot of the buyer demand right now; locking in those rates.”

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NEWS haven’t given up.

“I am still feeling a lot of demand and working with many buyers who didn't find what they were looking for in 2021,” Lenzke says. “There are a number of people who I'm working with who are gearing up to enter the market next year, so I'm feeling that there will be a good amount of demand.”

Inventory will come back, Lenzke says.

It’s just a matter of when and how much.

And weather could be a factor.

“I anticipate we will have houses coming on. I don't know to what degree and when it will start,” she says. “I have noticed that if we have a mild winter, the spring market can get started earlier. So, it has been relatively mild thus far and if this continues, I expect that we will see some sellers coming to market earlier.”

Lenzke remains optimistic that 2022 will look a lot like 2021, especially because she doesn’t see many shifts in market trends soon. People still retire, have more kids, and have kids go off to college, all factors that might motivate them to move on.

“There's so many factors that we all don't know about just in our world, but from the people who I'm working with, I think there's still a lot of excitement and energy around this North Shore market,” Lenzke says.

Jamie Roth, a broker with Engel & Völkers in Highland Park, says the new strain of the coronavirus has him feeling it’s 2020 all over again.

“I don't see this rush of people listing their homes, and actually I have sellers who are sitting on the sidelines waiting to see what happens with Omicron,” Roth says.

“There are people who are going to be uncomfortable having people walk through their homes again. No one has a crystal ball, but everything seems to indicate it’s going to be very similar to 2020,” Howard Meyers, who founded The Meyers Group with his wife, Susan, in Winnetka, isn’t fond of prognostication but says the market in 2022 looks more like 2021.

“I would never try to predict the future,” Meyers says. “However, when I look at the Continued on PG 10

This home at 196 Park Avenue in Glencoe will be hitting the market next week. Listed by Gloria Matlin of Compass.

Lake Forest saw plenty of movement in the luxury market this year. This home at 13675 Lucky Lake Drive is listed by @properties agent Joanna Koperski.

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mechanics of the current market and how things are unfolding, and in my conversations with other agents, it appears that many of the same mechanics which have created this current situation of very, very unprecedented low inventory and increasingly large demand will continue in place for the short-term at least and maybe the long-term.”

But Meyers agrees the COVID-related circumstances seem to still be in place, and that continues to deepen the desire for people to leave congested areas and look for more outdoor space, keeping pricing steady.

“I always want to preface that within all markets, things can change in a flash,” he says. “At the same time, because of the ratio of buyers to sellers, I suspect that supply and demand circumstances will not provide the environment that will promote falling prices, which is a concern to some.”

While the general consensus among real estate professionals (and buyers, for sure)

This new private North Shore listing on Lake Michigan is being represented by Annie Royster Lenzke and Jean Royster of the Dawn McKenna Group, Coldwell Banker.

Private Listings Network. Buyers’ agents got wind she was going to list them, one of them a $6 million sale. She says it’s indicative that even during a traditionally slow time, the market is moving into the new year with momentum “That was my last closing—on Christmas Eve—which was great, but I still have a lot of buyers out there who are just desperately looking to move and really want to be on the North Shore and it’s at all price points,” she says. “They ask me, ‘Am I getting anything?’”

Like other brokers, Matlin says she’s getting fewer calls from sellers because they’re worried they won’t find a place to go. That’s going to be the challenge of 2022.

“I'm hoping things loosen up a little bit with the rates going up. I think that's going to really push us, People are going to want to buy while rates are still good,” Matlin says. “If we can get some listings, we will have a spectacular year, just like 2021.”

Coming soon on the Private Listing Network is 41 South Deere Park in Highland Park. Listed

by Jamie Roth of Engel & Völkers.

is that the North Shore market the past 18 months has been unprecedented, Meyers agrees but views it more as a catch up than a bubble.

“I'm reading national stories about— particularly first-time buyers—being priced out of the market,” he says. “I'm not

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sure that's happening here yet because the Chicago-area market is the last, I believe, of the 25 largest metropolitan areas in the country to get back to 2007 prices. I think that happened approximately a year ago.”

Gloria Matlin sold two properties in December that never even made it to the

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NORTH SHORE FOODIE

STIRRED, NOT SHAKEN

AMERICAN JOURNALIST AND CULTURAL CRITIC H. L. MENCKEN FAMOUSLY ONCE SAID, “MARTINIS ARE THE ONLY AMERICAN INVENTION AS PERFECT AS A SONNET.” IN CELEBRATION OF THE NEW YEAR AHEAD—WE DIVE INTO THE MAKINGS OF A CLASSIC MARTINI.

BY WENDY FRANZEN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND

Those who take their cocktails seriously agree that James Bond was on the wrong side of the glass: martinis should be stirred, not shaken. When shaken, a martini can become over-diluted and foggy, marring the taste and its crystal-clear beauty. Serving guests an icy-cold martini is essential, and to achieve this without shaking, one should chill the ingredients, cocktail shaker, and glass. Stirring with a bar spoon until the shaker is frosty and hand-numbingly cold is another key to success. How one garnishes is personal preference, so having both olives and strips of freshly peeled lemon zest for a twist is thoughtful when entertaining.

But the directives stop here. When the first martinis were mixed in the 19th century, they leaned toward a 50/50 split—vermouth and gin in equal balance—and a dash of orange bitters were added for good measure. It has been an evolution from wet to dry over a century and a half, and this recipe falls in the middle. Asking a guest, “how do you take it?” is appropriate. But let us be clear—gin is the only spirit one should offer.

Let us raise a well-chilled glass to this new year, giving thanks for family, friends, and the classic All-American martini.

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY WENDY FRANZEN

THE CLASSIC MARTINI Serves one

Chill the ingredients, shaker, and glass for a perfectly cold cocktail. You can chill the glass and shaker by filling with ice and allowing to sit until cold, discarding all residual water and melting ice before making the cocktail.

Ingredients

• 3 ounces chilled London dry gin • 1 ounce chilled dry vermouth • 1 lemon, peel cut into strips with a vegetable peeler or paring knife • Queen or Manzanilla olives from the olive bar Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add gin and vermouth, and stir constantly for 30 seconds, or until shaker is frosty and extremely cold. Strain into a chilled martini or coupe glass. Garnish with a lemon twist: twist a strip of peel over the glass to release oils, then run along the rim and add to the glass. Alternatively, garnish with three olives.

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Wishing all my friends and clients a Happy and Healthy New Year!

Being a real estate advisor is much more about helping people move on with their lives and capturing their dreams than it is about sales volume or statistics.

Thanks to you, it’s been an amazingly successful year on all fronts. Cheers!

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SUNDAY BEST BEFORE LOOKING AHEAD TO 2022, LET’S LOOK BACK—AND SAVOR AGAIN SOME OF THE MEMORABLE QUOTES THAT GRACED OUR “SUNDAY BREAKFAST” PAGES IN 2021.

BY BILL MCLEAN ILLUSTRATIONS BY BARRY BLITT

Interesting and unique insights—along with occasional funny comments—never get old.

Our “Sunday Breakfast” subjects spoke volumes in 2021. We learned. We contemplated.

We laughed.

It’s a good time to revisit quotes that appeared on this page: “Our studentathletes focused on what they had instead of what they didn’t have, and they felt thankful.

Don’t look for a pity party here, because you’ll never find one. We’re resilient, on a number of levels, and patient.

We remain hopeful and positive.”

—Loyola Academy President for Athletics and Fitness Genevieve Atwood, on Ramblers’ response to the onset of the pandemic.

far with my clothing line (Minor Details). But I’m fearless. I’m a risk-taker. And I go with my gut, immediately, when I make significant decisions. It’s funny—it takes me more time to decide which pair of shoes I want to buy than it takes me to make the biggest decisions in my life.” —Chicagoan Dina Lewis, a business owner.

“Beauty hasn’t changed.

What was beautiful, what was ideal, to

“The way he spoke, he lured you. He

Dina Lewis

“I’ve been blessed. took you on a journey I’ve learned so much with his oral tradition, evfrom both of my kids (MiDena Dodd Perry ery time. I’d hear him tell the chael and George). It’s been a privilege to be their mother. They’re my same story 15 different ways; no matter what darkness and my light, my everything, my mo- he changed, or added, he made it entertaining. tivation.” —Glenview @properties broker Con- I couldn’t wait to hear the story a 16th time.”

—Lake Forest High School New Media teacher nie Dornan, a week before Mother’s Day. Steve Douglass, on his late grandfather Jack.

“Go to a regatta or go to a prom? The choice “I can’t think of better towns to be in than for me was always clear—go to a regatta.” — New Trier High School graduate and USA Sail- in Northbrook and Highland Park. I mean, ing Team member Maggie Shea, who competed who wouldn’t want to give back to communities that treat you as well as those two do? at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

The entire North Shore is a wonderful, caring “I believe through healing my own body area. When you need something, anything, the that my gift to the community is to share my North Shore is there for us.” —Nick Drivas, journey to inspire them to heal their own bod- owner of restaurants Grill House (Northbrook) ies in whatever way or fashion they deem ap- and Backyard Grill (Highland Park). propriate.” —Lake Forest resident Dena Dodd “You want stories? I have stories. I love tellPerry, an integrative health coach and certified ing stories. So much so I could talk food cold.” yoga instructor.

—Kenilworth resident and Chicago-based Adorn “People are shocked that I’ve made it this Bar & Restaurant Chef Jonathon Sawyer.

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“I loved all sports at New Trier High School.

And I was the girls basketball color analyst for the high school radio station. Hey, I had inside information, thanks to Coach ( John) Schneiter making us scrimmage his team.” —NTHS boys tennis coach and alumnus Tad Eckert, recalling his days as a Trevians netter (the late Schneiter also served as NT’s boys tennis coach).

“Fast forward to 9/11, and people recognized how tough the job (policeman) is and often showed their appreciation for what we do. There’s still considerable respect for police officers. There’s a silent majority out there. A lot of us would like that majority to be more vocal.” —First-year Northbrook Chief of Police Christopher Kennedy.

“Someone came up to me recently and said, ‘Oh, you’re the one who likes out-of-focus flowers.’ I’m that guy. I’m mostly interested in color and composition. I believe soft images, particularly of flowers and plants, give people relief from everyday chaos.

They have healing properties.” —Lake Bluff resident and photographer Phillip Ross.

“Doing what I do has put me near numerous Hollywood types and politicians and other famous folks. I’ve cooked alongside so many interesting people through the years. To be able to tell a joke and hear Carol Burnett laugh at it … what a memory. So was hearing that Aretha Franklin liked my peach cobbler.”

—Pastry chef and Riverwoods resident Gale Gand, who hosted the Food Network series S w e e t Dreams for eight years.

“ Pe o ple, now people in ancient more than John Grunsfeld times is the same to peoever, want ple today. I love beauty. I love a home that feels beautiful things. We should all seek to leave comfortable, organized, and tidy. They want this world more beautiful than it was when we to come home and feel calm and patient. entered it.” —Dr. Steven Bloch, Highland Park You’d never feel anywhere near that if you plastic surgeon and owner of Body by Bloch. have to face piles and chaos as soon as you “It was absolutely magical up there. I loved enter your house.” —Glenview authors/blogger being in space. I loved being in a spacesuit. I Jessica Litman, also known as The Organized remember taking the time to look back at Mama.

Earth and admiring the spectacular surroundings, and then feeling my heart drop. I was as relaxed as ever.” —Former astronaut and 1976 Highland Park High School graduate John Grunsfeld.

“Yes, one’s vision is certainly important, bit it’s not if that person is surrounded by committed, passionate colleagues. My answer to that question (“What’s your vision?”), every time, is, “The vision needs to be a shared one.” —Lake Forest Country Day Head of School Joy Hurd.

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“My biggest inspiration has been my father (Timm T. Martin). He hustles, he dreams, and he turns passions into businesses. Such a go-getter, my father. He’s my real-life superhero. He’s all about, ‘Work hard to either create your dream or to create a dream for someone else.’ ” —Northbrook native and business co-owner Paige Iseminger, who, with husband Ryne, launched the ready-to-go canned spirit Freshie, an organic tequila seltzer, a little more than a year ago.

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CHEERS TO THE NEW YEAR! Looking for guidance in the 2022 market?

We can help.

We’ll make you feel at home.

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176 Riverside, Northfield* SO

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338 E Center, Lake Bluff

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2015 Greenwood, Wilmette* **Brokermetrics team closed sales 01/01/2021-12/21/2021

3116 Old Glenview, Wilmette

2044 Claridge, Northbrook SO

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1925 Lake, #319, Wilmette SO

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2900 Kingston, Buffalo Grove*

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929 Oxford, Wilmette*

1910 Elmwood, Wilmette*

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