About
Jeff Kropp
Realtor
About Jeff Kropp
A native of Naperville, Illinois, Jeff earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. After that, he obtained a law degree from DePaul College of Law, finishing in the top 15% of his class. In 2001, Jeff left his law firm DLA Piper to pursue his passion for real estate by opening his own small independent realty brokerage. Jeff has worked and lived on the Northside of Chicago since 1993.
Jeff’s Credentials:
- IL Law License
- IL Managing Broker License
- IL Mortgage Loan Officer License
Jeff’s Unique Skills
His experience as a top-notch lawyer helped him develop unique and vital skills that help his clients save time and money:
- Attention to detail
- Loyalty
- Confidentiality (airtight- similar to the attorney-client privilege you hear about)
- Empathy
- Advanced negotiation skills and strategies
- Organization
- Managing expectations
- Patience to slowly walk his clients through ups and downs of stressful and important experience
- Strict adherence to the highest code of ethics only attorneys follow
- Your friend, ally and advocate in all things related to real estate
Jeff’s Extensive Experience
For over 25 years of experience, Jeff has helped almost 500 clients navigate the wild west of Chicago’s city and suburban realty market. His name is well-known and respected, and he has earned many awards including Angies’ List SuperService Awards and Top 10% Sales Award for Chicago Association of Realtors. Jeff knows the area well, having worked with most of the top realty brokerages and done sales in nearly every condo building on the Northside. In all, Jeff has $500 million in sales and home loans under his belt.
The types of properties Jeff has dealt with include:
- Single Family Homes
- Condominiums
- Land
- Commercial Property
- Apartment Buildings
What To Expect When You Hire Jeff
Jeff provides his clients with very personal attention and service not found from a larger brokerage. You can expect calls and texts to be returned promptly. You can expect that I will put myself in your shoes, but with my extensive experience, so you can reach your goals.
For Buyers:
- If you are buying, a free consultation (via Zoom, phone or in-person) to learn more about your goals, set expectations, review the buying process from A to Z, cover the timelines, and review the current market of the area you are interested in.
- My team will then arrange tours of homes you are interested in, including off market listings, and add our valued and objective opinion on those homes (including any flaws we observe).
- If you need financing, we can approve you for a home loan instantly and go over ballpark payments and loan options.
- When we find a winner, helping you put together a reasonable offer based on the market conditions and your time frame.
- Making my time-tested team of inspectors, real estate lawyers, and contractors available to you.
- Navigate the whole home buying process to the finish line- Your Closing.
For Sellers:
- Meet you in your property to provide a free opinion on home value and any renovations or repairs that make sense to get most money from your sale.
- List your home in the local MLS along with over 250 realty websites to maximize your home’s exposure.
- Provide access to any prospective buyers and solicit their feedback after the showing, to share with you.
- Advise you on whether any changes to your listing would make sense based on market time and feedback.
- Arrange open houses if needed.
- Share details of your home to our in-house list of potential buyers via emails and social media posts.
Jeff’s Commitment To You
I pledge to put myself in your shoes, with your goals, budget and dreams, and apply my unique skill and expertise to make it all happen. I will adhere to the highest level of ethics in my representation: absolute confidentiality, honesty and integrity.
What Jeff’s Clients Say:
I couldn’t be happier with my experience buying my first home. Jeff’s guidance through the entire process was exceptional. He was great at pointing out the good and bad while looking at homes, and helped steer us away from making mistakes when my partner and I were wearing rose tinted glasses. Everyone he referred us to work with were great and his experience was invaluable when making offers and negotiating. We are so happy with our new home and Jeff was a huge part of getting us in it. Jeff is great at what he does.
Jeff is great! As a buyer during a sellers market and a pandemic, he made the experience of buying our first home as pleasant as possible. Jeff was calming and reassuring throughout this stressful time. He’s really good at pointing out issues while viewing properties. We love our new home! We highly recommend Jeff!
Jeff helped me buy my first house. I had no idea what to do, so he was a godsend as he was very thorough and reassuring through the whole process. He very carefully listened to my concerns and was extremely accommodating to my very particular demands on how I wanted to go about looking for a home.
He negotiated hard for us, getting us a house well below listing price in a historically strong seller’s market where there were no houses even available to buy!
From start to finish, he was really great, and I felt like I had a very experienced and knowledgeable expert on my side. He was my go to guy whenever problems arose, and with him managing everything from home shopping to closing, it saved me a ton of stress. I highly recommend him.
When our landlord sold the property we had been living in for over 5 years, Jeff Kropp came in and saved the day. As a first time home buyer, I had no idea what I was doing. Jeff explained each step along the way and the whole process was a lot easier than I thought it would be. First he helped us define what we needed, and what our budget was. Then he helped us choose some properties to see. We ended up picking the very first one we visited even though we saw several more.
Once we had our property picked out, he helped with the offer and negotiation. We got an extra fridge, and a kitchen island, and closing cost credit to make things easier. He also helped us pick the right home inspector, and attorney and helped with our mortgage. For first time home buyers who don’t know what to do, Jeff’s your guy! I highly recommend the Home Buyer Agents.
Jeff was a great agent! He provided valuable insight in terms of prices to bid, and helped narrow down our search in a useful way. Negotiations went better than we expected due to his advice.
He helped explain everything as we went along, and made sure we understood what the next steps were so there weren’t any surprises. He even helped us get in to look at a few locations we were interested in that had difficult buyers which I’m sure were not easy to set up. He wasn’t afraid to get his hands dirty and do some work on our behalf.