Chicago’s West Loop: Formerly a warehouse district with factories and businesses, Chicago’s West Loop now offers a trendy atmosphere with a multitude of spacious lofts — and has recently signaled new development activity. Jason Beckstrom, agent with Conlon: A Real Estate Company, and Barry Schwartz, mortgage advisor with PERL Mortgage, discuss real estate and financial trends in Chicago’s west loop neighborhood.

For more information on development in the West Loop, visit the West Loop Community Organization website at WestLoop.org.

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PERL is proud to congratulate Dean Vlamis and Barry Schwartz, recently named Top 100 Producers in the country by the Scotsman Guide.

From the Scotsman Guide’s site:

This is the first year Scotsman Guide has ranked the nation’s top-producing mortgage professionals. We knew we wanted the nation’s most-comprehensive list of broker volume — the tightest, most-solid, most-accurate, fail-safe, most intensely verified ranking in the mortgage industry.

The guide ranks loan officers by total dollar volume in 2009, as well as loans closed, FHA volume, purchase volume, refinance volume, and overall volume gain from 2008-2009.

Here’s the complete list of online rankings.

Congrats to Dean and Barry – Your Lenders for Life!

Lincoln Park, River West and Rogers Park: Ryan Stavros, agent with Jameson Real Estate, joins Barry Schwartz, mortgage consultant at PERL Mortgage, to discuss trends in inventory and sales prices in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, River West and Rogers Park neighborhoods.

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Last week, current Federal Reserve Board Chair Ben Bernanke was reconfirmed for another four years by the United States Senate in a 70-30 vote. Who is Ben Bernanke, and what exactly does the Fed chair do? PERL Mortgage Advisor and top 200 producer Barry Schwartz explains the role of the Fed and its current leadership.

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If you search the words “Credit Repair” on Google, you’re likely to find nearly 21,000,000 results. So how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? PERL Mortgage Adviser and top 200 producer Barry Schwartz explains the concept of credit repair and offers real world solutions and steps to evaluate and improve credit ratings.

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