Margie Smigel
The Margie Smigel Group, LLC
Principal Broker, #471.000008
(312) 953-1466
Personal service for you
I started my career as a graphic designer and photographer. On the side, I bought and redeveloped a derelict frat house in the Northeastern University neighborhood of Boston. I converted it to a 3-flat, enabling me to live the life of an artist while living free while my tenants paid my bills. I went to The School of the Museum of Fine Arts to pursue making art and discovered that I wanted to be a filmmaker. Moving to Chicago in 1988, I realized that I needed to earn money to finish a film. And that's how my real estate career began. I have created this small brokerage because I want to do business the way I like to do business. I have the time and energy to devote to my clients and transactions without herding a large stable of brokers. And it works.
In 2015, just two years after starting this business, I was named the Top Producer in the Kenwood Neighborhood for the number of transactions I closed. My brokerage was ranked 188 out of 2190 brokerages doing business in Chicago in 2015.
I have been in the real estate business since 1989. In 1999 I created a brokerage with partners that grew so fast and so big, that in 2005 we were named one of the fasted growing business in Inner City America. It was exhilarating to build a business as the real estate market exploded in Chicago. In 2011 I sold my share in the business and concentrated on being available to my aging parents while selling real estate at other brokerages. First I went to a large company where I was one of 850 agents. It felt too impersonal and corporate for me. Then I went to a small boutique, but I soon realized that the brand was just not me. My parents died three weeks apart right before the holidays in 2012. The day after New Year's, I woke up and thought, what now? I realized that the next step for me was to open a small, personalized boutique brokerage that reflected my kind of business. And so I did.
In 2015, just two years after starting this business, I was named the Top Producer in the Kenwood Neighborhood for the number of transactions I closed. My brokerage was ranked 188 out of 2190 brokerages doing business in Chicago in 2015.
I have been in the real estate business since 1989. In 1999 I created a brokerage with partners that grew so fast and so big, that in 2005 we were named one of the fasted growing business in Inner City America. It was exhilarating to build a business as the real estate market exploded in Chicago. In 2011 I sold my share in the business and concentrated on being available to my aging parents while selling real estate at other brokerages. First I went to a large company where I was one of 850 agents. It felt too impersonal and corporate for me. Then I went to a small boutique, but I soon realized that the brand was just not me. My parents died three weeks apart right before the holidays in 2012. The day after New Year's, I woke up and thought, what now? I realized that the next step for me was to open a small, personalized boutique brokerage that reflected my kind of business. And so I did.
Specialties
Residential Properties, Listing Agent, Buying Agent, Relocation
Experience
I have more than 20 years of experience in real estate
Languages
I speak English
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Brokerage
The Margie Smigel Group, LLC
720 S Dearborn St. PH 4
Chicago, IL 60605
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