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| Laura Ellis |
CHICAGO, IL — Baird &
Warner, Chicagoland's largest locally owned independent residential real estate
services company, has announced a new partnership with Deerfield, Ill.-based
The Jacobs Companies as the exclusive sales and marketing firm for the
prominent North Shore homebuilder.
Founded in 1935, The
Jacobs Companies is a fourth-generation luxury homebuilder that has served the
North Shore area for 82 years. Currently, the builder has several new custom
homes available for immediate delivery, as well as five new-home communities on
the North Shore, which offer single-family homes, townhomes and rowhomes,
including communities tailored for empty nesters.
“Builders and developers,
predominantly in the city, have long tapped Baird & Warner to help give
them an edge in high-end development sales, so we’re excited to bring our same
level of service and expertise to an acclaimed builder like The Jacobs
Companies,” said Laura Ellis,
president of residential sales and executive vice president of Baird &
Warner. “Developers and builders understand that choosing an established
brokerage like Baird & Warner to handle sales makes it easier for them to
grow their business by doing what they do best – build homes.”
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| Keith Jacobs |
The new partnership will
not be the first time Baird & Warner has worked with The Jacobs Companies.
A specialist in North Shore sales, Baird & Warner broker Karen Skurie was
enlisted by the homebuilder last year to help sell some of its inventory.
Skurie was so successful, The Jacobs Companies wanted to explore working with
Baird & Warner on a full-time basis.
“As a family-owned
homebuilder, we can relate on a number of levels to the way Baird & Warner
does business,” said Keith Jacobs,
president and CEO of The Jacobs Companies. “Collectively, Baird & Warner
and The Jacobs Companies have about 250 years of real estate tradition, and
it’s that synergy in our roots and mission that made this such a natural fit.
“Baird & Warner may be
a large firm, but it’s also a boutique brokerage with deep knowledge of the
North Shore, and that resonates with the buyers of our homes,” continued
Jacobs.
“First through working
with Karen, and then when we met the whole team, we were impressed each step of
the way with the resources they brought to the table. Baird & Warner
brokers have highly effective marketing tools at their fingertips that will
allow us to reach buyers from the immediate area and beyond, showing them
everything our communities have to offer.”
Baird & Warner has
immediately started representing The Jacobs Companies communities – including
Taylor Junction in Deerfield; Heritage, 2100 St. Johns and Hidden Oak, all
three of which are in Highland Park; and Gateway in Northbrook. Plans also are
underway to have a sales office for the builder’s communities within Baird
& Warner’s Highland Park office at 1920 Sheridan Road.
For more information on
The Jacobs Companies, visit www.thejacobscompanies.net, and for more
information on Baird & Warner, visit www.bairdwarner.com.
For a complete copy of the company’s news release,
please contact:
Kim Manning,
kmanning@taylorjohnson.com, (312) 267-4527
Rebecca Boykin,
rboykin@taylorjohnson.com, (312) 267-4523