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Luxury Living Chicago Realty Earns Finalist Spots in Multiple Categories and Takes Home Executive of the Year at Illinois REjournals Real Estate Awards

Posted on September 1, 2022October 17, 2022 by LLCR Team

Illinois Real Estate Journal recently announced finalists for its 2022 awards program, and Luxury Living Chicago Realty is a finalist in multiple categories. At the live awards ceremony, CEO Aaron Galvin took home the honor of Executive of the Year category. The firm was also a Finalist in the Professional Service Company of the Year category. Learn more about how we earned our finalist nominations by reading below.

Executive of the Year – Aaron Galvin

With established pandemic policies in place and a renewed focus on growth, Aaron Galvin, CEO and Founder of Luxury Living Chicago Realty, took the company to new heights in 2021.

LLCR received multiple awards and recognitions in 2021, including once again being named to the 2021 Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Companies. The company was also named a finalist in two categories for PR Daily’s Content Marketing Awards – “Content Marketing for the Purpose of Lead Generation” and “Thought Leadership Campaign”.

As in past years, Aaron led the way as an innovator and trailblazer, working closely with Chicago’s real estate media and multifamily trade publications and publishing multiple articles featuring real-time insight and teachings.

Additionally, Aaron hosted the Chicago Luxury Apartment Market Update in March. The virtual conference featured industry insights with more than 300 attendees joining in live. Aaron also served as the keynote speaker for his industry peers, which included everyone from developers and property managers to investors.

Expanding into fresh territory, Aaron also has LLCR expanding into building its first co-development and joint venture with Mavrek Development and GW Properties. The property includes 248 Class A luxury apartments, 40,000 square feet of office, and 8,000 square feet of street-level retail on the northeast corner of E Grand Avenue and N St Clair.

Professional Services Company of the Year

Luxury Living Chicago Realty continues to meet and exceed expectations within the industry, hitting multiple milestones in 2021. With 3,000+ apartments in their leasing portfolio, the company remains an authority on marketing and leasing luxury properties in the Chicagoland area. The most notable exclusive leasing assignments include Wolf Point East, Wolf Point West, Logan, Panorama, River City Apartments, Norweta, and One Oak Brook Commons.

By April 2021, exclusive leasing and marketing assignments Norweta, The Jax,and Logan Apartments reached leasing milestones of at least 95% leased.

The company’s Wolf Point East, an iconic apartment tower above the Chicago River, hit 95 percent leased in June 2021, exceeding all leasing metrics throughout the lease-up.

Panorama, a new BlitzLake development in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, hit the 100% leased milestone in July 2021. The 140-unit luxury apartment building began leasing in January of last year.

Holding nearly 35% of the new luxury leasing market share in downtown Chicago, LLCR’s experience and commitment continue to resonate with its consumer base. Additionally, the company continues to launch new leasing projects in the Chicago suburbs and looks forward to ongoing expansion and growth.

Luxury Living Chicago Realty Named Exclusive Marketing and Leasing Provider for VISTA Property’s 741 North Wells in River North

Posted on August 10, 2022August 23, 2022 by LLCR Team

CHICAGO (August 10, 2022) – Developer VISTA Property and its general contractor, Skender, broke ground today on 741 N Wells Street, a new mixed-use multifamily rental building in Chicago’s River North neighborhood. Designed by Antunovich Associates, the 21-story, 201,000-square-foot development will include 168 apartment units, communal tenant amenities and an elegant building lobby. Located prominently at the corner of Chicago Avenue and Wells Street, 741 N Wells is one of the latest new developments going up in River North.

“River North is booming. People want to live and work in dynamic live-work-play neighborhoods that form the heart of downtown Chicago,” said Ark Latt, Chief Development Officer, VISTA Property. “We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Ald. Brian Hopkins and the entire 2^nd Ward to contribute a real estate asset that supports and enhances a strong community.”

The multifamily building will include 50 studios, 101 one-bedrooms and 17 two-bedrooms, as well as a rooftop terrace with pool, meeting facilities, exercise area, bicycle storage and parking for roughly 50 vehicles. The building will include expansive floor-to-ceiling windows on all facades, along with exceptional 9-foot ceiling heights offering unique views for all residents.

“I am incredibly proud of our team and the hard work that has gone into planning and coordinating this project before any shovels hit the ground,” said Justin Brown, President & CEO, Skender. “We’re thrilled to be working with VISTA Property and Antunovich again. This is going to be another impressive building for the neighborhood.”

VISTA Property financed the project with a first mortgage loan from Huntington Bank, and has also engaged Luxury Living Chicago Realty, downtown Chicago’s premier marketing, consulting and residential leasing brokerage firm.

“We are excited to help execute VISTA Property’s first large scale multifamily property in Chicago,” said Aaron Galvin, CEO of Luxury Living. “Having collaborated with VISTA, Antunovich and Skender throughout the development process, we are confident this property will set a new standard for boutique luxury rentals in River North.”

The team of VISTA Property (developer), Skender (general contractor) and Antunovich Associates (architects) recently completed 609 W. Randolph, a fifteen (15) story boutique Class A commercial office building serving as a gateway to Fulton Market.

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About VISTA Property

VISTA Property is a family-owned international private real estate investment firm with a diversified portfolio of commercial, retail, and multifamily investments in urban centers. Core holdings are located in Chicago, New York City, North Carolina, Florida, London with an added focus on expanding into other exciting urban markets. For more information, visit VISTAprop.com.

About Antunovich Associates

Antunovich Associates is an architectural, planning and interior design firm with offices located in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Austin, and Buffalo. Founded in 1990 by Joseph M. Antunovich, FAIA, and employing in excess of 100 design professionals to support projects nationwide, Antunovich Associates is deeply rooted in the belief that creating exceptional buildings is a collaborative process between the client, the builder, and the architect. For more information, visit antunovich.com.

About Skender

Skender is a full-service building contractor and one of the nation’s top 100 construction firms, according to Building Design & Construction. We combine Lean process with high-performing teams to deliver unmatched results and maximum value. Headquartered in Chicago with an office in Indianapolis, Skender serves its clients in the Midwest and across the country. For more information on Skender, visit skender.com.

About Luxury Living Chicago Realty

Founded in 2007, Luxury Living Chicago Realty has unparalleled experience marketing and leasing luxury multifamily properties in Chicago. Our team provides best-in-class customer service with a seamless showing and leasing process. With our extensive knowledge of the Chicago real estate market, our leasing professionals provide invaluable insight. We are able to understand the renter’s needs and priorities and are happy and fulfilled in helping to find the perfect new home. Our passion is to empower people to live their best life. To learn more about Luxury Living Chicago Realty, visit luxurylivingchicago.com.

Luxury Living Chicago Realty Named A Finalist in Two Categories for PR Daily’s 2021 Content Marketing Awards

Posted on December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 by LLCR Team

For the third consecutive year, Luxury Living Chicago has been named a finalist in PR Daily’s Content Marketing Awards, this year placing in two categories. The first category, Content Marketing for the Purpose of Lead Generation, we highlighted our “Consistency as a Key Strategy for Inbound Content Marketing.” and is the third consecutive year we placed as a finalist. The second category we were nominated for is PR Daily’s Thought Leadership Campaign, where we discussed “Providing Clarity in Uncertain Times”.

Submission requirements for PR Daily’s Content Marketing Awards included details about our goals, strategy and tactics, execution, and evaluation in terms of success, results or ROI. A summary of what we included in our submission is as follows.

Lead Generation – Consistency as a Key Strategy for Inbound Content Marketing

Consistent content creation is an essential part of our inbound marketing strategy to build lead generation, which is rooted in three key principles: attracting, engaging, and delighting customers. Along with other success metrics, excellence in these key areas accounts for a significant increase in new leads.

The Luxury Living Chicago Realty site was built to be a resource for anyone looking for an apartment in downtown Chicago. Every week at least three new blog posts are published and shared throughout marketing channels that link back to the website.

Every month our team reviews a list of SERP opportunities, meets with our sales teams to discuss commonly asked questions, and analyzes the top performing content driving traffic to our website.By the end of the award timeframe, the LLCR site ranked in the top 2 Google search results for 288 queries, a number that has continued to increase month over month since the website’s creation in 2016.

Thought Leadership Campaign – Providing Clarity in Uncertain Times

As part of our submission for the Thought Leadership Campaign, Luxury Living Chicago Realty made numerous updates to the LuxuryChicagoApartments.com website that enabled us to address COVID-19 concerns and strategically shift to virtual leasing.

Thought leadership was deployed to generate bylined articles and secure media interviews about how LLCR was continuing to operate safely during the pandemic and to share best practices and key learnings with the real estate industry. From Chicago Agent Magazine to Bisnow to The Real Deal’s, CEO Aaron Galvin worked closely with Chicago’s real estate media and multifamily trade publications to share important data and metrics about Chicago’s luxury apartment market as well as best practices related to marketing and leasing apartments during a pandemic.

Galvin published multiple articles featuring real-time insight and learnings via the Forbes Real Estate Council and Inman.com. In April, How To Lease An Apartment Sight Unseen and How To Improve Remote Leasing Efforts With Video ran with the goal of sharing strategies that had been working for the company. In May, he shared additional insight in the article How To Convert Apartment Website Traffic To Leases, followed by his July submission Apartment Leasing Has Changed For The Better: How To Succeed With Multiple Leasing Options.

On March 3, 2021, Aaron Galvin hosted the Chicago Luxury Apartment Market Update. Months in the making, the goal of the virtual event was to share company data and key learnings from the past year. The event featured a keynote from Galvin, a market report from the company’s Director of Leasing strategy, a candid interview between a luxury renter that moved during the pandemic and her leasing agent and culminated to a panel discussion with some of the biggest names in Chicago real estate. The panel discussion was moderated by Galvin and featured key figures from Hines, Fifield and Related. The virtual event was attended by 300+ industry peers from developers to property managers to investors.

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Being recognized as an organization that is included with a group of notable names in business is both an accomplishment and an honor. All winners for PR Daily’s Content Marketing Awards will be announced in January 2022.

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