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Buy your Champaign-Urbana area home with a team beside you.

Finding homes online is easy. Choosing the right home, understanding value, writing a strong offer, coordinating inspections, working through financing, and getting safely to closing is where experienced guidance matters.

The AroundCU team helps buyers compare options, avoid surprises, and move through the process with confidence.

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What we help you do

Understand the market

We help you compare price, condition, location, days on market, and competing homes so you can make decisions based on context instead of pressure.

Find the right fit

We listen for what matters most: budget, commute, schools, space, lifestyle, timing, and the tradeoffs you are willing to make.

Get to closing

We help coordinate lenders, inspections, negotiations, deadlines, paperwork, and the details between your first showing and the keys to your new home.

Start with the home search

Browse the 600 homes currently available in the Champaign area, filter by the criteria that matter to you, and use the map-based search to explore what is available.

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Buyer tools and resources

Set a default search destinationSee how far homes are from work, school, or another regular destination. Home buying FAQAnswers to common questions about Realtors, the MLS, inspections, timing, and financing. What is dual agency?A clear explanation of what happens when one agent is involved with both buyer and seller. Mortgage payment calculatorEstimate principal and interest on a fixed-rate mortgage. Steps to finding your perfect homeHow we help you move from wish list to accepted offer. Rent vs. ownThink through whether now is the right time to buy. Area informationUseful links for Champaign-Urbana life, maps, services, and local resources.

Buying a home is one of the most important purchase decisions you will make. Contact us and we can talk through your goals, timing, search criteria, and next steps.

I'm in the mortgage business, so I knew I wanted a good Realtor for my first home purchase and Mariya's name was the only name on my list! As expected, she was professional, knowledgeable, kind, efficient, and patient with all our first-time home buyer questions as well as all my behind-the-scene's knowledge. And listening to her saved us over $5,000 in the purchase price of our new home. I could not have asked for better!

- Angela and Tim H.