Desiree Mertz

The Crowe Real Estate Team
The Crowe Team
Real Estate Agent Desiree Mertz View Listings
Lincoln Park
2526 North Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60614

Desiree Mertz

The Crowe Real Estate Team
The Crowe Team

We are a mother daughter duo team serving the City of Chicago, North Shore & Western Suburbs. We are experienced with first time buyers, move up buyers, foreclosure/short sale properties, estate sales, older homes, horse properties, luxury properties, condos, town homes, buyers & sellers. With 20+ years of real estate expertise and having sold over 800 homes, we passionately believe that people want to be served-not sold. Our backgrounds have taught us to be patient in explaining things…in listening…and in doing a great deal of preparation. Our business has the heart of a teacher not a salesman.

Buying or selling a home doesn't come with a manual, our job is to guide you. Our success is due to a keen ability to coordinate the details of today’s sophisticated-sometimes complicated transactions. We specialize in strong negotiation skills, pricing strategy, client advocacy, communication, and extremely high levels of availability and responsiveness. Our experience and drive are continuously validated by being ranked in the top 1% of our company’s agents for both volume and units and our testimonials from past clients.

We have an extensive network of real estate professionals and vendors in every field to make sure you have the absolute best resources supporting you from beginning to end. This brings a unique competitive edge to every real estate transaction for our clients. We are laser focused on creating an outstanding, seamless, hassle free, and successful experience for all our clients. We go the extra mile for your satisfaction and would be happy to listen to you and make a plan to answer your real estate needs.

About Us:

My journey started when I was a child, helping my mom Kelly build her real estate career in the early days. I would create flyers, stuff mailboxes, basically slave labor hehe. I graduated from Northern Illinois University with a business degree and launched into technology sales for 10 years before transitioning full time to real estate. I grew up in the western suburbs and have lived in Chicago for over 8 years in various neighborhoods. In between, I had a few years living in Atlanta and Dallas. It is an exciting ride coming from my background in sales and being able to work side by side with my mom.

Kelly grew up in Geneseo, IL on a farm. She was a substitute teacher in and around Naperville schools at the junior high and high school level, co-taught Kindergarten at Montessori, taught preschool at Kensington School in St. Charles, and was a stay-at-home mom for 10 years raising 3 daughters. Kelly has been a full-time professional Realtor since 1999 and in the many testimonials her clients have provided, they used the following adjectives: honest, compassionate, knowledgeable, available, and tough negotiator. Her professional reputation is built on successful relationships with clients who utilized her extensive market knowledge, transaction skills, marketing expertise, high tech skills, communication, and client confidentiality.

Neighborhoods and Communities We Serve:

Western Suburbs: Kane, DuPage, Kendall, and DeKalb county with emphasis in Algonquin, Aurora, Bartlett, Batavia, DeKalb, Elburn, Elgin, Geneva, Naperville, Downers Grove, North Aurora, South Elgin, St. Charles, Sugar Grove, Sycamore, Wayne, West Chicago, Wheaton, Yorkville, Oak Park.

City of Chicago & North Shore Suburbs (Evanston, Wilmette, Winnetka)

My Hobbies:

Horseback riding, exercising-Pilates/Yoga/P.volve/Barre, traveling, cooking, podcasts, all things beauty/style & healthy living, true crime, Sofar Sounds, interior design, reading

My Residences and Work:

Hometown: St. Charles, IL

Technology sales for 10 years

I have lived in Atlanta, Dallas, and many neighborhoods of Chicago including: Lincoln Park, River North, South Loop, and Logan Square

Licensed Realtor from 2019 to present

Fun fact: my passion is horses

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Testimonials

Ron Cinkus

Kelly did a fantastic job in marketing my property and following up with all agents who showed the property. She handled all the negotiations and presented the best offer to me for approval. She was always available to me, and answered any questions I had regarding the sale of my property.

Betty Welbel

Kelly was a great agent to work with. She is extremely personable, pleasant, and always willing to help us with our needs. If she didn't know an answer to a question, she would find it asap, and get back to us right away. Kelly is very knowledgeable. We really enjoyed working with her!!

Connie Sterkowicz

I meet Kelly though another realtor, she was very professional, friendly , Happy person that gave me a few tips such as clean out closet half way, clean everything off floor in every closet, I started packing the Min she left one room at a time doing everything she suggested. The showings started and the offers started pouring in sold in three days! Kelly didn’t just stop there, she wa...

Leah Duron

Kelly was wonderful to work with and has continued to offer her services to our family since our big move. She and her team are an excellent choice.

Emily K

Kelly helped us buy our first home. I couldn't have hoped for someone better. I recommend her to everyone at any opportunity I get.

Lisa Kraus

Kelly was the best realtor that I’ve worked with. She was amazing.

Nicole Rodgers

Kelly worked with me on and off for a few years before finding the perfect home. She listened to my needs and kept looking for something to fit them. When I finally found my house, my closing and wrap up were easy and not as stressful as I thought, but that was largely to do with her part. Five years later, I am still in love with my house and it has been able to grow perfectly with my l...

Michael Weinberger

Wonderful experience. She helped me find the perfect place.

Joana Tejada

The Crowe Team is exactly the support you need when purchasing a new home! They are responsive, transparent and enjoyable to work with during such an important journey. I would highly recommend.

Paul Fahey

Kelly and her team identified the parts of the property that would market well. She stayed on top of all the activities required between signing a contract and closing and help resolve problems before they could become delays.

Thomas Nisler

Kelly is one of the hardest working agents I've experienced, and I've dealt with about a dozen over my career. She took the time to understand the properties pluses, and minuses, and how to overcome possible obstacles. She's honest and forthright, something that can't always be said for people in the real estate game. I would highly recommend her.

Grant Razee

Kelly has to be the friendliest, most knowledgeable and aggressive realtor in the Fox Valley. Not only does she know homes, but each of the neighborhoods. She was extremely helpful in negotiating the entire process. I will use her again for all real estate transactions.

Barbara McNamara

We did our research in picking a realtor and it REALLY paid off! Kelly was on top of every aspect of our home search and purchase process. Kelly was fast to respond to our inquires, knowledgeable about the areas we were interested in (we were shopping from out of state), and made it a point to accommodate our travel schedules. Kelly is also an awesome negotiator and was super helpful wal...

My Listings

$30,000
1212 N La Salle Drive, Chicago, IL 60610
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$30,000
1212 N La Salle Drive, Chicago, IL 60610
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$30,000
1212 N La Salle Drive, Chicago, IL 60610
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$30,000
1212 N La Salle Drive, Chicago, IL 60610
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$18,500,000
  • 6 Beds
  • 5 Full Baths
  • 2 Partial Baths
  • 13,400 sqft
915 N Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60610
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$375,000
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  • 3 Beds
  • 1 Full Baths
2019 W Chase Avenue, Chicago, IL 60645
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$45,000
9416 3rd Avenue, Cary, IL 60013
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$350,000
4524 S Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60653
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$205,000
  • 4 Beds
  • 2 Full Baths
  • 1,175 sqft
12233 S Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60643
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$925,000
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  • 9 Beds
  • 4 Full Baths
, Chicago, IL 60647
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$279,900
  • 4 Beds
  • 2 Full Baths
  • 1 Partial Baths
  • 1,500 sqft
9610 S Wallace Street, Chicago, IL 60628
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$4,650.00
  • 4 Beds
  • 3 Full Baths
  • 1 Partial Baths
  • 2,742 sqft
10723 Clocktower Drive, Countryside, IL 60525
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$3,250,000
  • 5 Beds
  • 4 Full Baths
  • 3 Partial Baths
  • 5,700 sqft
1842 N Wolcott Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622
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$1,100,000
  • 4 Beds
  • 3 Full Baths
  • 2 Partial Baths
  • 5,774 sqft
  • 0.29 Acreage
861 Crescent Boulevard, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
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$457,000
  • 5 Beds
  • 2 Full Baths
  • 1,394 sqft
2821 N Merrimac Avenue, Chicago, IL 60634
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$925,000
  • 5 Beds
  • 2 Full Baths
3404 N Albany Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618
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$599,900
  • 5 Beds
  • 3 Full Baths
4026 N Kimball Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618
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$70,000
  • 0.68 Acreage
Lot 106 Sec 1-33-6 Country Club Lane, Morris, IL 60450
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$285,000
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  • 2 Beds
  • 2 Full Baths
  • 1,364 sqft
330 Highwood Avenue, Highwood, IL 60040
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$2,750,000
  • 6 Beds
  • 3 Full Baths
  • 1 Partial Baths
  • 6,000 sqft
1030 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60202
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$229,900
  • 3 Beds
  • 1 Full Baths
  • 1 Partial Baths
12538 S Justine Street, Calumet Park, IL 60827
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$240,000
  • 3 Beds
  • 2 Full Baths
12529 S Loomis Street, Calumet Park, IL 60827
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$500,000
  • 4 Beds
  • 2 Full Baths
  • 928 sqft
2159 N Parkside Avenue, Chicago, IL 60639
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$1,750,000
  • 5 Beds
  • 4 Full Baths
  • 1 Partial Baths
  • 3,980 sqft
2908 N Seeley Avenue, Chicago, IL 60618
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