Cheryl Waldstein offers top-notch service to her buyers and sellers. With her eyes and ears on the market, she previews homes and reports detailed observations to her buyers, saving them time and energy in their home search. With sellers, she applies her market-tested approach to make the home buyer-ready. Beautifully composed marketing, expert negotiating, and clear, consistent communication throughout the transaction have been the hallmarks of Cheryl's success. Cheryl offices out of @properties in Glencoe, and makes it a point to become an expert in any area important to her clients. Her most common areas of service on the North Shore include Glencoe, Winnetka, Wilmette, Highland Park, Deerfield, Northbrook, Glenview and Lake Forest. In the city she is well versed in Old Town, Lincoln Park, River North, West Loop, and Lakeview.
Starting with her first visit, Cheryl views your home as if she were your buyer, with a critical eye that works in your favor. She strategizes with you how to best prepare your home for the market and has great insight into what appeals to today's buyers. She collaborates with you to show your home in its best light, be most appealing and thereby fetch the highest market price. Her up-to-the-minute market knowledge combined with twenty years of residential real estate experience make her a winning choice for buyers and sellers wishing to realize their real estate dreams. With a positive outlook, creative energy, and business savvy she guides her clients through the process, from initial meeting to closing.
Cheryl knows it is never too early for buyers to gain market knowledge. "Previewing listings and visiting homes, even if buyers aren't quite ready to move, is a great way to gain market insight. They will know when they have found "the one" and in today's inventory-thin market, a well-prepared buyer is the best buyer. Cheryl offers personalized luxury service to every buyer and lives by her philosophy, "It's Your Move!" She loves orienting buyers to various communities, caravanning to special sites within a neighborhood--parks, trails, the beach, schools for example. When you find your home, Cheryl negotiates wholeheartedly on your behalf, and once agreeable terms are reached, Cheryl helps advance you through the subsequent stages of attorney review and inspection to ensure the smoothest transaction possible, from accepted offer to successful close.
"It's Your Move!" Cheryl's client-centered business approach focuses on what works best for her sellers and buyers, their wishes, and their timing. "Years ago, I had a wonderful client who hired me to list her home. After a couple of weeks, she felt like the time was not right to sell. 'This is your livelihood, but this is our life,' the seller said. That rang so true to me," Cheryl says. She keeps this in mind, always remembering that the work of helping someone buy or sell a home is about their life, their family, their home.
Cheryl has spent much of her life on the North Shore. She has lived in Glencoe, Wilmette and Highland Park, where she and her husband raised three daughters, now in their 30's and living on their own. When her daughters were young and her husband's job required relocating their young family to St Louis, she developed a great understanding of the challenges facing families who relocate. Cheryl loves her work as a real estate broker. When she's not spending time with wonderful clients, she enjoys hiking and biking on the Green Bay Trail, taking the North Branch Trail to the Botanic Gardens near her Highland Park home, picnicking at Ravinia Festival during the summer, and cooking and baking for family and friends who often seem to end up on her screened porch, her favorite room in her home. In 2019, she self-published a cookbook memoir called, "My Bossy Baker."
