What Chicago neighborhoods ended 2014 with a bang? Yesterday, we reported that Aurora was Chicagoland’s top-selling suburban housing market in Dec. 2014; what neighborhood in the city proper came out on top in the holiday season? To find out, we dug

Pending home sales took a step back in December, but remain well above 2013 levels. The National Association of Realtors released its newest Pending Home Sales Index today, finding that despite persistently low interest rates, December pending home sales

Last week, we reported that home sales in Chicagoland closed out 2014 on a disappointing note; what suburban markets, though, saw the most home sales activity in December? To find out, we dug through fresh numbers from Redfin’s Market Tracker,

We’re all waiting for Chicagoland’s housing inventory situation to improve…but that has yet to happen. The inventory situation in Chicagoland continued to worsen in 2014, according to new numbers from realtor.com. Per realtor.com’s analysis, inventory in Chicagoland dropped by

New home sales may have disappointed in 2014, but median sales price was an entirely different matter. December may have capped off a lackluster year of sales for newly built single-family homes, but when it came to the median

For a successful 2015, does Chicago need more building? The Windy City finished out the year with a whimper, as our own Peter Ricci reported last week, which wasn’t a wholly unexpected result, but some were surprised to see

Home prices in the Chicagoland area did not set the indices on fire in the latest Case-Shiller. Home prices in the Chicagoland area continued to moderate in November, falling 1.1 percent from October but rising a modest 2.0 percent

Everyone knows that lending standards today are relatively restrictive by historic standards, but are they loosening up at all as housing and the economy improve? To find out, we took an exclusive look at CoreLogic’s Housing Credit Index (HCI),

It was the same old narrative for the 2014 housing market in December, according to fresh analysis. Home sales in the nine-county Chicagoland totaled 7,971 in December, a 3.7 percent decline from Dec. 2013’s 8,278 sales, according to the

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Using data provided by CoreLogic, we look closer at the foreclosure and serious delinquency rates of the last two years. Last week, we reviewed CoreLogic’s latest foreclosure report, which provided a brief snapshot of national and local foreclosure levels

Chicago will be home to one of the nation’s busiest real estate markets, according to analysis from Redfin. Andersonville is poised to be one of the hottest real estate markets in the U.S., according to a special report from Redfin.

Here is an undeniably positive development in the housing recovery. Distressed home sales – such as the one in our photo above – were the most visible result of the housing downturn, a true sign of the unfortunate times.

Chicago Agent magazine released the numbers and ranks the top 20 agents and brokerage offices in Chicagoland’s six counties in its Real Data online issue. Chicagoland’s top five residential real estate offices closed over $4,550,000,000 in 2014, showing an

Foreign home sales have been a big deal in the U.S., but could the strengthening economic climate change that? Foreign real estate has been a big deal in the U.S. during the housing recovery, and the numbers speak for themselves

Few housing markets will perform better than Chicagoland in 2015, according to new analysis. The year of 2015 will be a good one for real estate in the Chicagoland area, according to the latest Market Report from research firm