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SIZZLING START THE NEW YEAR IS USUALLY A SLOW PERIOD FOR THE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS, BUT MANY NORTH SHORE REALTORS PREDICT THE HOTTEST JANUARY MARKET ON RECORD.
A stunning home at 24 Canterbury Court in Wilmette (soon to be listed by Compass' Meg + Katie Group in Winnetka) features showroom interiors and magnificent outdoor patios. BY MITCH HURST THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
The pandemic changed everything about 2020 and will continue to impact our lives in the new year ahead. However, one positive side effect of this new reality was a robust residential real estate market that saw North Shore properties literally flying off the market.
And while January is notoriously known as a slow time of year for real estate sales, many local realtors and brokers are expecting January 2021 to be one of the busiest ever. "We think this January will be different and we are actually listing houses sooner than we normally would. We usually shoot for the beginning of February for the spring market," says Meg McGuinness of Meg + Katie Group, with the Compass office in Winnetka. "We're
going to have a few properties go on right after the first of the year." A primary factor impacting current market conditions is that with so many houses being scooped up last year, there's very little inventory available to serve the continuing demand. "Part of it is because with such low inventory, not only are we working with a lot of buyers, we see a lot of other buyers out there. Continued on PG 7
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and realtors to prepare for the busy February season, this year they're hitting the ground running. "Usually in January we’re prepping for the after-Super Bowl February market, but this year is different," says Joanna Koperski, a broker with @properties in Lake
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So, we know there's demand and they're not just tire kickers," says McGuinness. "They're serious buyers." Katie Hauser, McGuinness's partner in the Meg + Katie Group, says that at some point late in the year buyers stopped writing offers because there simply wasn't enough inventory to show. "Buyers are looking and have been looking but with our inventory so low, they haven't bought," Hauser says. "Prices kind of spiked but now they're evening out a bit, and these buyers are still looking. We have a buyer client who went under contract on December 19, and they'd been looking for a while. So, people are serious and they're very market savvy." All of these things present unprecedented opportunities for sellers, especially if they can get their homes on the market early in the year while demand remains high. "We believe in being the first in the market, whether it's the market that starts in January or the market that starts in February," Hauser says. "It's really just a matter of paying attention to the buyers that are out there. The advantage is you're not competing with a bunch of other houses."
Francie Pinkwater, a realtor and Founding Advisor to Engel & Völkers Chicago North Shore, sees some additional reasons that might drive buyers and sellers into the market earlier in the year than usual. "I think this January will be different as there is a pent-up anticipation that the market is going to be great. People who have been stuck inside are anxious to get out ahead of the crowds, so to speak," Pinkwater says. "January
A 5 bedroom home at 14945 Creekside Path in Libertyville (listed by Joanna Koperski of @properties) features a prime location near the downtown Metra. contingencies." While this is the time of year many sellers might think about taking their homes off the market, some realtors have encouraged clients to rethink that decision. "Many sellers always want to take their homes off the market for the holidays as it is an inconvenience to have showings with decorations and a full house," says Noah Levy, a broker
A designer-owned property at 345 Auburn Avenue in Winnetka (to be listed by Compass' Meg + Katie Group in Winnetka) is filled with beautiful updates and custom touches.
Forest. "It’s going to be a busy market starting right away in January." Koperski says one underappreciated factor that's driving the early 2021 market is expanded awareness of the opportunities on the North Shore for families— especially those coming from the city—as they continue to crave bigger spaces. "Though the primary motivator for families moving up to the North Shore is the search for extra space that properties here provide, both inside and out, an important factor remains the realization that these North Shore towns are not so distant as previously thought, especially with the convenient current option of remote work arrangements," says Koperski. "Add to that the attraction of large homes and expansive gardens, with a final financial bonus of unbeatable interest rates and reasonable market pricing, and the result is an inviting cocktail of the best reasons to move to the North Shore."
Hauser and McGuinness provide as much data as possible to sellers, include trends on buyer demand, and work with them to decide the best possible timing to list their homes. "There are a lot of homes that are in price ranges that will still have a lot of competition," Hauser says. "We have one particular house right now that has zero competition in the private listing and zero competition on the regular market, so we're putting that on in the beginning of January. It really does depend on the competition." McGuinness's advice for buyers is to come as prepared as possible and be flexible. With many homes receiving multiple offers, sellers are in a position to be selective. "We make sure our buyers have a pre-approval letter because with such low inventory, they need to be ready to pull the trigger quickly," McGuinness says. "For us to submit the strongest offer, we make sure they're pre-approved, and we also make sure they have some flexibility with their closing date. We recommend they don't have any house sale or house closing
Lounge in luxury at 24 Canterbury Court in Wilmette (also featured on the cover and soon to be listed by Compass' Meg + Katie Group in Winnetka).
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with Engel & Völkers North Shore in Winnetka. "We actually have encouraged our current sellers to keep their homes on the market because of the continued buyer activity, and just put two of our listings under contract very close to the list price." Levy emphasizes that low inventory does not mean buyers are lowering their standards when it comes to their home purchases. There's still the need to update homes to get them ready—and to keep them ready— for listing and showing. "First impressions are paramount. It's key to make sure your home looks the best it can prior to hitting the market, so don't rush the process just to get your home on the market," Levy says. "The goal is to neutralize your home, so don't take it personally when it comes to suggestions and making an investment in prepping your home for sale. Once your home hits the market, make sure it stays in show-ready condition and that it will be available for in person or virtual showings." While January always offers time for brokers
is now going to become our early spring, which is usually late February or March. The mortgage rates are at an all-time low and people are ready to take advantage of them as no one knows what will happen under the new administration." Winnetka Compass broker Gloria Matlin has some concerns that a post-holiday spike in COVID-19 cases could affect the market early next year, but it doesn't change her view that earlier is better. "I think young buyers want more open space and freedom in the suburbs," Matlin says. "I believe sellers should absolutely get ready to go now. Lack of inventory proves next year will start out as a seller's market." And despite the Midwest's notorious winter chill, not even the weather can get in the way. "Buyers have spent a lot of time in their homes, and they know what they need," Hauser says. "I don't think the weather's going to be a huge factor."
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HOPPIN’ JOHN BLACK-EYED PEAS WITH RICE, GREENS AND CORNBREAD BRING A HELPING OF GOOD LUCK FOR THE NEW YEAR AHEAD. We could all use a little good luck to kick off the new year—platefuls of it, in fact. Good thing eating “lucky” on New Year’s Day is a worldwide tradition. Because so many people link prosperity with luck, if it looks like money—coin-shaped legumes and breads, green greens, silvery fish—you can bet somebody’s eating it on New Year’s Day. In America’s Southern states, black-eyed peas are the lucky-food favorite. Cooked up with pork (or smoked turkey necks) and served over rice with greens, the peas become Hoppin’ John, downhome delicious, and lucky good.
INGREDIENTS For Hoppin' John 1 16-ounce bag black-eyed peas, picked over and rinsed to remove any impurities 2 large white onions 2 smoked ham hocks OR 2 smoked turkey necks 6 cups low-sodium chicken or turkey stock 1 teaspoon fresh cracked pepper 1 head of garlic 2 tablespoons olive oil (or canola oil) A few slices of ham or cooked bacon (optional) For Rice Follow package instructions to prepare your favorite long-grained rice. For the Greens 1 10-ounce bag mature spinach, kale, mustard greens or collards rinsed well 3 cloves garlic 2 tablespoons oil Dash of vinegar (I like balsamic) Dash of red pepper (I like to use Aleppo pepper--pungent, but less spicy then red pepper flakes) For the cornbread 1 10-inch cast iron skillet 1 10-inch round of parchment paper 1 ½ cups medium-grind, stone-ground cornmeal 2 Tbsp. dry milk powder 1 ½ cups cake flour 2 tsp baking powder ½ tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 1 cup whole milk ½ fresh lemon to make 2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice 2 large eggs ¼ cup honey 2 Tbsp molasses (I use Grandma’s brand original, unsulfured) 3 Tbsp melted butter OR melted bacon fat, plus 1 tablespoon soft butter to grease cast-iron skillet Garnish Vinegar-based hot sauce Snipped scallions or finely diced white onion
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RECIPE AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY MONICA KASS ROGERS METHOD Make Hoppin' John: Soak the beans in 4 cups of water overnight in the refrigerator. Drain the water. Place the soaked beans in a pot and add one of the large onions (quartered into chunks), and the ham hocks or turkey necks. Add the turkey or chicken broth. Heat to boiling; immediately reduce heat to maintain a low simmer and cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour until beans are tender but not mushy. Pluck out the ham hocks and onion; set aside to cool. Make the mix-in for Hoppin’ John: Dice the remaining onion and entire head of garlic (about eight cloves). Warm the oil in a heavy-gauge saute pan over medium-low heat. Add the onion and garlic and saute for three minutes. Add 1/2 cup of water or chicken broth to the mixture and cook until soft. Remove to a bowl. Wipe out the saute pan. Once the onion and ham hocks from the bean pot are cool enough to handle, remove the meat from the ham hocks and dice along with the bean pot onion and add them to the onion and garlic mixture you reserved in the bowl. Add extra diced ham or bacon if desired. Season lightly
with pepper. Stir back into the beans. Set aside, from the skillet. Peel off and discard the parchment paper from the bottom of the cake. Invert keeping warm. cake a second time onto a serving platter, or cutMake Cornbread: Position baking rack to center ting board. Slice and serve hot with butter and of oven. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large molasses or honey. bowl, combine cornmeal with dry milk power. Measure cake flour, baking powder, soda and salt Make the greens and rice: Prepare rice according into a flour sifter; sift into the cornmeal/dry milk to package ingredients. While rice is cooking, premixture and stir all dry ingredients with a fork pare greens. Remove and discard all of the ribs and or whisk until evenly mixed. In a separate bowl, stems from the greens. Cut greens into ribbons. combine milk with lemon juice; allow to rest for Heat the oil in heavy saute pan with garlic cloves two minutes to thicken. Whisk eggs into the until the oil shimmers. Remove and discard the lemon-milk; stir in honey, molasses and melted garlic cloves. Add all of the greens by handfuls to fat. Using a fork, stir wet ingredients into the the pan and toss/stir until the greens are cooked dry just until combined, and no molasses streaks through but not completely limp. (You may wish to cook mustard and collard greens longer. Spinach remain. Set aside. Cut a round of parchment-paper to fit into the and kale may be finished sooner.) Season to taste bottom of 10-inch skillet. Grease the sides of the with a dash of vinegar and pepper. Note: Typical skillet and the parchment paper well with but- red pepper flakes are a nice addition, but I love ter. Spoon batter into skillet. Bake in 350 degree Aleppo pepper here—pungent but a bit less firey. oven for 35 minutes until golden brown. Remove Serve: For each serving, mound rice in bowls, from oven. Slide a knife around the inside rim of ladle Hoppin’ John over rice, top with greens. the skillet to loosen cake from sides of the pan. Garnish with snipped scallions or finely diced Invert cornbread cake onto a plate to remove it white onion, and hot sauce. Serve with cornbread.
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HOME RUN LOYOLA ACADEMY HIT IT OUT OF THE PARK WHEN IT NAMED WILMETTE RESIDENT GENEVIEVE ATWOOD ITS VP FOR ATHLETICS AND FITNESS. BY BILL MCLEAN ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT
Not Patrick Mahomes. Not Aaron Rodgers. Not even a Chicago Bear. Brian Atwood dressed up as recent Loyola Academy graduate Matthew Mangan for Halloween 2020. Mangan—now a University of Dayton freshman tight end—is Atwood’s favorite football player, meaning the 7-year-old received chocolate treats and candy corn instead of delectable passes while wearing Mangan’s maroon-and-gold No. 88 jersey on October 31. “Coach John Holecek helped me with the uniform,” Genevieve Atwood, Brian’s mother, says, referring to Loyola Academy’s varsity football coach. “It was a little too big. “We had to tuck it in.” A better fit? Genevieve Atwood and the position of vice president for athletics and fitness that she holds at Loyola Academy. The pairing of the versatile professional with a multilayered occupation continues to look and feel right, sort of like Atwood’s hand in the broken-in catcher’s mitt she wore comfortably to secure pitches when she played softball at Woodlands Academy in Lake Forest. The director of admissions at the Wilmette-based Jesuit college preparatory high school from 2008 to 2018 and an employee at Loyola Academy since 2004, Atwood, 49, landed the full-time athletics post in February 2019. The former three-sport prep athlete and Loyola Academy cross country/track/lacrosse coach had served as the school’s interim VP for athletics and fitness for about six months after predecessor Patrick Mahoney’s resignation. Holecek, a two-time Class 8A state championship football coach, lauded Atwood for her efforts and leadership and insisted that she vie for the permanent position at the top of Loyola Academy’s Athletics Department. “I got into education because being in a classroom was an attraction,” says Atwood, a former teacher at St. Mary of the Woods School in Chicago, Northbrook Junior High School, and Loyola Academy. “Seeing students develop from the first day of school to the last day excited me. Now I get to watch our athletes develop, not only in sports but also as young men and women. I’ve been so impressed with our athletes during the pandemic. Our athletes in sports that were allowed to participate in the fall were grateful for the opportunity, but they also showed empathy toward those on campus whose seasons were postponed.” Concerns about the pandemic ended Loyola Academy’s boys basketball season in mid-March, after it had reached a Class 4A sectional final against Evanston Township High School in Arlington Heights.The news devastated Brian Atwood—and not just because Mangan was a member of that team, too. Genevieve’s youngest of three children, along with all in Rambler Nation, knew his favorite hoop-
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sters had a legitimate shot at capturing state hardware for the first time in program history. “It was disappointing for many, at first; we’re all human,” Genevieve says. “Our program had earned the right to play in that big game, with thoughts of playing more games in the playoffs. Think about athletes: They’re used to rising to the occasion, to facing obstacles and overcoming them. But our Jesuit education provided a great platform for accepting the pandemic. Something greater was at work when we had to give up a basketball game. “Our student-athletes,” she adds, “focused on what they had instead of what they didn’t have, and they felt thankful. They became fully aware of the illnesses and deaths, of the sacrifices people w e re
making—sacrifices that you couldn’t compare to canceled games or postponed seasons. Don’t look for a pity party around here, because you’ll never find one. We’re resilient, on a number of levels, and patient. We remain hopeful and positive.” Atwood grew up in a large family in Glencoe and attended Sacred Heart School in Winnetka before enrolling at Woodlands Academy. One of Jim and Barbara Baisley’s seven children, Genevieve earned three varsity letters in both basketball and softball, and she suited up for one season in volleyball. As a power forward, Atwood helped a Woodlands Wildcats basketball squad upset Class A opponents during a deep playoff run. Her husband, Bob, caught for Michigan State University baseball teams. Brian Atwood and the couple’s other two children, Mark, 11, and Maeve, 10, are active in a slew of sports and activities. Maeve is an Irish dance performer. While growing up on the North Shore, Genevieve relished every chance to compete against her brothers in a range of sports. A Wilmette resident since 2008, she has been a regular New Trier Aquatics masters
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swimmer for years, working out with teammates up to three early mornings a week in Loyola Academy’s pool at the John D. Norcross ’54 Aquatic Center.
Our student-athletes focused on what they had instead of what they didn’t have, and they felt thankful. Don’t look for a pity party around here, because you’ll never find one. We’re resilient, on a number of levels, and patient. We remain hopeful and positive.
“I was into sports in high school more for the experiences than I was for anything else,” says Atwood, whose brother Jamie Baisley captained an Indiana University football team as a middle linebacker, and whose nephew Jimmy Murray plays center for the New York Jets. Niece Hope Baisley is a senior defender for the women’s soccer team at Fordham University in New York. Genevieve was Mr. and Mrs. Baisley’s fourth daughter to attend St. Mary College in South Bend, Indiana, where she majored in English and minored in political science before earning her master’s degree in education at DePaul University. For four summers, beginning in 2000, Atwood taught English at Loyola Academy before welcoming her students at Northbrook Junior High School students in the fall. “I was drawn to the Catholic school setting at that time in my career,” Atwood says. “That was a huge attraction for me.” Atwood applied for an opening in Loyola Academy’s English Department and got hired. One position led to another and to another and to several others. She also worked in the school’s O’Shaughnessy Center, which provides a structured, nurturing academic support system to promote lifelong independent learning and literacy. Atwood served as an assistant dean of student life as well, in addition to guiding athletes in three sports and heading the academy’s Admissions Department. “I had not anticipated having the opportunity to be Loyola’s VP for athletics and fitness,” Atwood admits. “But, once I started doing it, my thinking became the thinking I’d had in every position at Loyola. That is, ‘Do your job, work hard, and hope good things will happen.’ I enjoy challenges. I enjoy challenging myself. And the best part is getting to do this while working with great people—Loyola Academy students, coaches, and administrators, as well as the wonderful families in our community.” THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
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