Clare Sells Homes, Inc.

Clare and her team were amazing! Clare’s knowledge and understanding of the housing market in our neighborhood was spot on. She was thorough and detailed helping us understand the selling process for first-time sellers. Her and her team made the staging and selling process smooth and effortless. In addition to selling our condo, found us our dream home just in time to welcome our newest addition to our family. She worked around our schedule and made sure our daughter always had snacks during our search for a new home. Overall, Clare was amazing! We highly recommend her for anyone looking to sell or buy a new home!

I am a licensed real estate broker and have referred Clare to clients for her extraordinary sales and staging skills when I am not available. This review is for a single-family home that needed her vision and her sales skills to lead the transformation of this rather plain house into an exciting, trendy home. She knows what the buying public wants and then gives it to them. She's a natural seller with a great design sense. You get two professionals in one when you hire Clare.

My wife and I hired Clare Spartz to help us sell our condo. She was fantastic! We met with her early on in the process to tour our home. Clare gave us respectful but frank advice and (wisely) encouraged us to remove clutter and furniture that didn’t make our condo look its best. Clare then partially staged the condo with pieces of furniture and accessories which made the space bright, open, and beautiful. This drew potential buyers to our condo and helped it outshine other similar units in the neighborhood which were also on the market. When we did get an offer, Clare offered sound advice and wise recommendations to secure the best terms possible, and saw the transaction through to the end. We have every intention of working with her again in the future and would recommend her without qualification.

Clare is better than the best. I am confident that our condo would not have sold without the beautiful staging and Clare's vision. When we considered listing we were nervous. Our condo was in a building with all renters and another more desirable unit was going to hit the market at the same time. Clare took one look at our condo and had a vision of how beautiful it could be. That vision gave us a contract for more than listing price in ONE DAY and the other unit that went for sale never sold, even after dropping the price below our original listing. The other unit was slightly larger and had a view of the city. The difference between the two listings was CLARE! Staging sold our condo and we could not be happier. Five stars is not enough for the experience we had.

Clare is awesome and her staging skill sells homes!. Clare is a Realtor, but also does staging. Ordinarily, she does not do staging for other agents, however, she did it as a special favor for my seller and me. The home was totally transformed and I am confident it would still be on the market without her assistance. The furnishings she provided were lovely and well coordinated. I would recommend her for any home in need of some sophisticated styling and especially vacant homes begging for great furnishings!

Clare was so amazing in helping me purchase a house and selling my house. Clare and her team made my home so warm and inviting with the updates and staging that we were quickly able to sell I will highly recommend her and will be using her in the future.

Clare was recommended to us when we sold our condo in the city (UK Village / Humboldt Park neighborhood). She was amazing to work with! At our initial meeting, she presented information about our market and options for selling, while also having an amazing demeanor! She took such personal steps to maximize the appeal of our place. We already liked our condo, but she really helped us fall in love with it again, as well as detailing how she could help potential buyers fall in love with it, as well. Clare did a great job staging our home, and even provided pieces from her personal collection to help with the process. Overall, she was an absolute pleasure to work with and we couldn't recommend her enough!!

Clare was with me through some truly big life transitions. After my children had all left home, her expert advice and discerning eye assured that I got the top price when selling my home in the suburbs. She joined me in my adventure into the city and helped me find the perfect condominium to rent for my trial run. She made sure I didn't compromise. When I was positive that I'd found the perfect neighborhood, she dropped everything to help me find the perfect home to purchase.

Clare did an incredible job staging and selling my beautiful downtown Chicago loft in record time! And for a record sale price! Her vision for updating and maximizing my space made all the difference. Clare did all the heavy lifting of the planning and organizing while I frantically decluttered my 20 years accumulation of ‘stuff’. With 150+ people coming through in less than 3 days and 10+ offers (and I wasn’t even in town!), I couldn’t have been happier!

I did not have an appt to tour Clare's listing, in fact she was on her way out to another appt, I asked if I could see the home, she graciously invited me in & allowed me to take my time to tour the property. She was not only knowledgeable about the property but also about the neighborhood. Clare's staging of the home spotlighted the home's layout that appealed to me. Her attention to detail increased natural light with updated finishes all while staying neutral for a broad appeal.

When we showed Clare our house, she was very excited by it's potential because the market was very hot in our neighborhood. She went through the house and made a list of improvements to make. She showed us the local comps and told us we could sell for much more than we expected if we fix it up first. We made the recommended repairs and she staged the house beautifully. We put the house on the market at the high end of her recommendation. In the end, the house was sold in less than a month at just slightly below our asking price! I don't think we would have made nearly as much off our sale if it wasn't for Clare.

Clare (w/ flair!) tackled my property sale with absolute aplomb! Her creativity, resourcefulness, energy, determination and knowledge of the market served me very well - several times over in the marketing, sale, lease and sale again of this property! We finally sold it in July 2017 - but after many unexpected twists and turns that Clare handled magnificently. In the toughest market (2009), I had listed the property for sale, droves came through but mistakenly thought it was a fire sale and were making bids on furniture that was not for sale. At Clare's suggestion, we staged it and Clare had it under contract within 3 weeks for the best $/sq ft in the building (ever!) and in the neighborhood at that time. When Buyer's financing fell through, after I had moved out, we pivoted and listed it for rent. Clare found fantastic renters for me (in Chicago as ex pats) that stayed nearly two years. After renting the property for another six years to the same tenants, I decided to sell. But over time the tenants had accumulated much and hadn't cleaned much. It didn't have quite the same sparkle it had in 2009. Clare bravely worked with my tenants to identify what they could move to a storage locker, (just for the interim, e.g. tents, camping coolers, volumes and volumes of books, extra chairs and desks, golf clubs, etc.) all of which tenants had been stacking in the bathtub and other places in make shift storage shelving. Tenants kindly allowed me to pay and move it to a storage facility two blocks away and I had the unit cleaned. Fortunately, Clare is organized and was able to re-purpose the pictures from 2009 of the staged home, which brought in droves of people ( who were not expecting the tenants clutter). So it stood a bit longer than anyone wanted, but not for want of showings or offers! Ultimately, working together, we were able to reduce the clutter further, clean again, and found the right buyer at the right price at the right time. Everyone was thrilled!