Homebuyers feel the heat with real estate minibooms

With their first child due in August, Jason and Megan Komenda knew last fall that they wanted out of their one-bedroom Lincoln Square condo with shared laundry three floors below their unit. The couple weren’t novices in the real estate market — between them, they’d bought three condos before they began house hunting last fall. “At the time, I thought that it was a buyers’ market,” said Jason Komenda, a 38-year-old accountant. “I didn’t feel like I had to be so aggressive.” But the Komendas found themselves in “extreme panic” last month, with their condo all but sold and no … Reported by Chicago S-T 50 minutes ago.