The statistics are hardly encouraging: student debt has more than tripled in the last 10 years; its serious delinquency rate is higher than any other form of debt, including mortgages and credit cards; it now totals $1.37 trillion, and

Chicago is already among the six most walkable cities in the U.S., and new research finds that the Windy City’s current construction boom will only boost the city’s walkability further. According to a report from Redfin, a whopping 89 percent of

New home construction in the Chicagoland area is now at its highest level in seven years, according to a new report from Metrostudy. The firm’s analysis, though, extended far beyond that headline-grabbing statistic, and below, we’ve spotlighted the report’s

In our new Real Data report, we’ve detailed the agents who closed July’s top home sales throughout Chicagoland. Click on the tabs below to adjust between the single-family, condo, and townhome markets: Single Family Condo Townhome Single Family Sales Price Property

Highland Park was Chicagoland’s top luxury housing market in the second quarter, according to new research from Redfin. Within Highland Park’s luxury market, the average sales price was $2.16 million in Q2, a 41.2 percent increase over Q2 2015;

Last week, we reported on 2016’s top agents by year-to-date growth – agents whose 2016 business has grown the most over 2015. Now, we’re taking a similarly deep look at Chicagoland’s real estate offices, and which ones have grown their

JD Power today named its annual home buyer/seller satisfaction award recipients, and in all four real estate consumer categories – first-time buyers, first-time sellers, repeat buyers, repeat sellers – Century 21 was the top pick; though, the brokerage tied once with

How do the housing markets compare among Chicagoland’s top-performing schools? And how do those scores look when the schools are separated by the home prices of their respective markets? Courtesy of a detailed analysis from RealtyTrac, we have charted

Which Chicagoland agents have seen the biggest year-over-year gains in their business so far in 2016? We took a deeper look at the market trends and put together the following chart, which shows the 20 agents who rose the most in the

On June 23, 2016, citizens of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. In the wake of the decision, the British pound fell to a 31-year low against the U.S. dollar, the euro dropped one percent, and U.S.

Americans are deeply pessimistic about economic mobility. By an overwhelming margin, they believe it is harder today to secure a middle-class lifestyle than it was for past generations. And a large majority continue to see the housing market in

Home sellers in the Chicagoland housing market have seen some of the most modest returns in the nation, according to the Q2 2016 U.S. Home Sales Report from RealtyTrac. Basing its analysis on publicly recorded sales deeds from more than 900 counties

See our chart below for the top-selling Chicago neighborhoods in the first half of 2016, according to research from Redfin. To adjust between total home sales and the single-family/condo markets, click on the tabs. Total Home Sales Single-Family Home Sales

By the end of 2016, the Department of Energy estimates 1 million homes will be equipped with a solar energy system. And still there is no definitive way to value those systems in appraisals. A new report from the

See our chart below for the top-selling suburban housing markets in Chicagoland in the first half of 2016, according to research from Redfin. To adjust between total home sales and the single-family/condo markets, click on the tabs. Total Home

In January, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a division of the Treasury Department, announced two Geographic Targeting Orders, or GTOs, to monitor all cash luxury transactions in both Manhattan and Miami. The purpose was to help authorities identify possible