Final Walk Through: A Chicagoland Real Estate Podcast Bill White

Bill White is joined this week by loan officer Kevin Napoleon of Key Mortgage Services. Kevin takes us through his unique background and the experience of surviving the housing crash of 2008 and beyond. Bill also offers a market update through mid-June.

The market is back and Baird & Warner's Glen Ellyn office is in full swing. Bill is re-joined by his Sales Support Manager, Jenny Thiede, as they discuss what turned out to be a record-breaking month for Baird & Warner's Glen Ellyn office. Jenny is now a homeowner, and brings her perspective as to what her experience was like as a successfully-closed first-time homebuyer during the pandemic.

Now that we are in late May 2020, Bill updates the audience regarding the current real estate market in both his local market and Chicagoland. How are written sales in May compared to 2019? How did April finish up? What is buyer traffic like? How is the luxury market? What are the hottest price points?

This week Bill White is joined by Sarah Pelton, Baird & Warner's Vice President of Learning and Development. Sarah shares the best advice she ever learned in real estate and walks us through the key principles she tries to instill in both new and experienced brokers as they develop their skills throughout many different types of real estate markets.

Host Bill White is joined by his father, Bill White Sr, during this week's episode. Bill Sr talks about the evolution in real estate since he started in 1983 and how he has continued to thrive into the 2020's. Both revisit humorous stories from working together from 2003 - 2012 as they take a walk down memory lane. Bill Sr gives his best advice for those new to the industry and discusses what he is doing to continue to innovate during an always-changing real estate market.

It's mid-April 2020 and host Bill White, sales manager of Baird & Warner's Glen Ellyn office, is joined by Jack McKinney, Senior Director at Cushman & Wakefield. Jack and Bill discuss how the projections of Chicago's 2020 commercial real estate market were turned on their head by COVID-19 as well as Jack's most memorable commercial real estate showings and his experience working for the San Francisco 49ers. Episode 3 also marks the return of Baird & Warner Glen Ellyn sales support manager Jenny Thiede and her current perspective on the local real estate market as she is a prospective home buyer during these Shelter in Place times.