We buy houses in the north and northwest suburbs.

What we see most

The dominant story in northwest Cook is the original owner who bought new in 1968 and stayed. The house is structurally sound, mechanically ancient, and cosmetically forty years behind. Those houses sell well once renovated and very poorly as is, which is a wide enough spread that a cash sale and a listing produce genuinely different outcomes. We will run both numbers for you.

Evanston and Skokie run older and denser, with more masonry, more two flats, and municipal requirements that resemble the city more than the suburbs. Evanston in particular has its own transfer tax and inspection expectations worth planning around.

Elgin and the Kane County side spans a wide range, from historic housing near the river to postwar subdivisions, and it has more tenant occupied single family than people expect.

Taxes and township reassessment

Northwest Cook townships reassess on the triennial cycle, and a reassessment year can move a monthly payment enough to shrink a retail buyer's approval mid deal. If you are weighing a listing against a cash sale and your township is in a reassessment year, that risk belongs in the comparison.

Cities and villages we buy in

• Des Plaines
• Mount Prospect
• Arlington Heights
• Palatine
• Rolling Meadows
• Schaumburg
• Hoffman Estates
• Streamwood
• Hanover Park
• Bartlett
• Elk Grove Village
• Wheeling
• Buffalo Grove
• Prospect Heights
• Park Ridge
• Niles
• Morton Grove
• Skokie
• Evanston
• Lincolnwood
• Glenview
• Northbrook
• Wilmette
• Elgin
• South Elgin
• Carpentersville
• East Dundee
• Barrington
• Mundelein
• Libertyville
• Waukegan
• Gurnee
• Round Lake