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Champaign-Urbana real estate guidance from a local team that pays attention.

Welcome to AroundCU. We help buyers and sellers understand the local market, make thoughtful decisions, and move through the real estate process with fewer surprises.

We hope you are enjoying your Thursday afternoon.

Search homes for sale Talk with us

427 homes currently available in the Champaign County search. Use the map-based search to explore price, location, beds, baths, and more.

How is the market doing?

That is one of the questions we hear most often. The answer depends on price range, location, condition, timing, and the specific home, but we keep an eye on current MLS Grid data so the conversation starts with real numbers.

For a simple snapshot, here is what has happened with three-bedroom homes since June 20^th:

363 three-bedroom homes listed for sale.

$269,010 average original list price for those new listings, trimmed to reduce outlier noise.

$248,299 average sale price for the 277 three-bedroom homes that closed in the same period.

Those closed homes originally listed for an average of $253,798. That list-to-sale relationship is useful context, but every home still needs its own pricing conversation.

What can we help you do?

Find a homeSearch active listings on a map, filter by the criteria that matter to you, and pick up where you left off when you come back. Buy with confidenceUnderstand value, compare tradeoffs, coordinate inspections and financing, and get safely to closing. Sell with a planGet thoughtful pricing, preparation, marketing, showing feedback, negotiation help, and contract-to-close coordination.

Why AroundCU?

Our website is one example of how we try to earn your business: practical local information, useful tools, and ongoing improvements instead of generic promises. The same approach carries into our work with clients. We explain what we are seeing, help you understand your options, and stay involved through the details.

We have helped buyers and sellers with $107.4 million in transactions over the last 19 years, and we would love the opportunity to earn your business.

Meet the team Read testimonials

Mariya Vandivort & Ron Fields
AroundCU Real Estate Company
(217) 239-7125

In the process of buying a house, my wife and I had many realtors to choose from including friends and acquaintances. I decided it was best to find someone unbiased in the process and after living in Chicago for 3 years, the best place to start was Yelp. Unfortunately, not many people in Champaign use Yelp but Mariya had 8 reviews (all 5 star) compared to maybe 1 for any other realtor. This indicated to me that many of the people that chose her were savvy and non-local consumers that had a great experience with her.

After reading reviews and looking at her website, I liked her military background which I thought would make her a good negotiator, one of the most important things in my mind with buying a house. She did not disappoint and was always calm and collected.

Mariya is very knowledgeable about the buying process. She has a great website that makes it easy to follow houses that come on the market. She takes photos of each showing to help you remember the house and important concepts to consider. As a matter of fact, I have a colleague who used a different realtor and when I showed him Mariya's website and what it allowed us to do, he was pretty impressed and wished his realtor had that capability.

I recommend her highly and will definitely use her again should it be selling or buying a house.

- Jeff and Kendra S.