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The Southside Builders Association (SBA), a trade organization of smaller and medium-sized developers who build on Chicago’s South Side, was founded nearly two years ago. The Southside Builders Association meets monthly over lunch to discuss business and regulatory matters.

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By David Seiders, Chief Economist, National Association of Home Builders Growth of U.S. economic output (real gross domestic product) has slowed from the above-trend rates recorded earlier in the expansion, although overall GDP growth has held up reasonably well

By Ginger Downs, IOM, CAE, Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Association of Realtors With a focus on retail, office and the apartment market, much good news stemmed from CommercialForum’s recent Forecast for Chicago’s Commercial Real Estate Market. The panel consisted

By David Seiders, Chief Economist, National Association of Home Builders Growth of U.S. economic output (real gross domestic product) has slowed from the above-trend rates recorded earlier in the expansion, although overall GDP growth has held up reasonably well

By Ginger Downs, IOM, CAE, Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Association of Realtors With a focus on retail, office and the apartment market, much good news stemmed from CommercialForum’s recent Forecast for Chicago’s Commercial Real Estate Market. The panel consisted

“These low interest rates are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Anyone standing on the sidelines will miss out,” Dr. Lawrence Yun, Ph.D., managing director and senior economist for the National Association of Realtors said at the Chicago Association of Realtors 2007

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By Kim Velsey The Belgravia Group’s office is filled with photographs and sculptures — one of the more visible marks of its founder, David Ruttenberg. “He was an avid art collector, a patron of photography,” says Alan Lev, president

BY GINGER DOWNS, IOM, CAE Chief Executive Officer Chicago Association of Realtors Are more condominiums on the drawing board for Chicago? Will 2007 be noted as the year interest rates went up? Will condo-hotels flourish? How much are rents