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Areas of Practice

Residential & Commercial Real Estate

Buying or selling property is one of the biggest financial decisions of your life. We guide you through it from contract to closing.

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Buying & Selling

Experience That Protects Your Investment

A real estate deal moves fast. From the moment an offer is signed, the clock starts on attorney review, inspections, financing, title, and closing, and every step has deadlines and fine print that can cost you real money. In Illinois, the attorney review period is your best chance to fix a bad deal before it becomes a binding one.

That is why it matters to have an attorney who knows the laws, knows the process, and has navigated it for hundreds of transactions. We negotiate the contract in your favor, resolve inspection disputes, make sure the title work is done properly, and untangle the complications that can derail a closing, so yours stays on track.

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What We Handle

Contracts, Title, and Complicated Closings

Every transaction we take runs through the same careful hands, contract negotiation and attorney review, earnest money and contingency protection, coordination with your lender, examination of the title commitment, and clearing the liens, survey issues, and defects that surface along the way.

Most closings are routine. The ones that are not, an estate selling an inherited home, a missing heir on title, a seller in foreclosure, a deal collapsing the week of closing, are where experience earns its keep. We have seen it, and we have closed it.

Who We Represent

Residential and Commercial Clients

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Residential

Single-family homes, condos, two-flats, and multi-unit buildings across Chicago and the suburbs. Whether you are a first-time buyer or selling the family home of forty years, we represent you, not the deal, from the first signature to the keys changing hands.

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Commercial

Storefronts, mixed-use buildings, investment properties, and small-business purchases and sales. Commercial deals carry their own contracts, due diligence, and financing structures, and we guide owners and investors through all of it with the same start-to-finish attention.

Start to Finish

Selling? We Get You Top Dollar

From start to finish, we work with a trusted network of real estate agents who can list your house, market it properly, and bring serious buyers to the table. We know these neighborhoods, what they're worth, and what they're becoming, and we make sure you get top dollar for your property.

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You're Better Off with Balanoff

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