A top national nonbank lender and vision of loanDepot, imortgage, announced the appointment of two senior executives, Mary Bane and Jim Weir. Mary Bane joins the company as vice president. Prior to this role, she served six years at

Curbed Chicago recently made a list of the top 10 most expensive residential buildings in Chicago based off of at least two publicly listed sales that were made in 2015. Which buildings made the cut for the top five spots?

The major Realtor associations have all released their final set of statistics for 2015, and as usual, have provided considerable insights into how the year’s housing market ultimately shaped up. After looking through those various reports, we’ve isolated the

New research finds that millionaire ranks grew strongly in 2015 There were nearly 211,000 millionaire households in the Chicagoland area through the middle of 2015, up 4.6 percent from the same period in 2014. Millionaire households now account for 6 percent

Earlier this week, we reported that Winnetka in the suburbs and Lincoln Park in the city saw the most luxury home sales in December, according to numbers pulled for our monthly Real Data series. Were those markets on top for

Deerfield was recently ranked as the best Chicagoland city for families in a study by WalletHub.com. Analysts from the website compared cities across the state by 21 key indicators of ideal family conditions, including median family income and housing affordability.

Earlier this week, we reported that Rolling Meadows and the Loop were the fastest-selling neighborhoods in Chicagoland’s suburban and city housing markets, respectively, for the month of December. We’ve widened our focus to report on the markets that had

In our latest Real Data report, we have the agents who closed December’s top deals Click on the tabs below to see the top single-family, condo and townhome closings in Chicagoland’s housing market in December: Single Family Condo Townhome Single

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage announced Judi Sanchez as its new managing broker of the Libertyville office. Sanchez has 15 years of experience in real estate, and has been a managing broker since 2004. She currently serves on the Mainstreet Organization

In November, all-cash sales came back after an extended decline After a long period of steady decline, all-cash sales in Chicagoland’s housing market returned with a vengeance in Nov. 2015, rising 44 percent from where they were a year ago, according

Our REAL DATA 2015 reports look at, among other things, the top-producing agents in Chicagoland based on total sales volume. Which Chicagoland agents saw the biggest year-over-year gains in their business in 2015? We took a deeper look at the market trends

Click on the tabs below to adjust between the city and suburban markets that saw the most luxury sales in December, in terms of sales for homes priced $1 million and above. Stay tuned for later this week, when we’ll

Click on the tabs below to adjust between the city and suburban markets where homes sold the fastest in December, in terms of average days from listing to closing. Stay tuned for later this week, when we’ll report on  Chicagoland

Nearly 957,000 renters in the Chicagoland housing market struggle with the cost of housing, according to a new report from the Joint Center of Housing Studies at Harvard University. Titled “America’s Rental Housing,” the center’s report examined how low

After five years of waiting, the city has taken its first steps in redeveloping Cabrini-Green It was 2011 when the Chicago Housing Authority concluded its teardown of the infamous Cabrini-Green public housing development on the city’s North Side, and

How did the local rent markets close out the year? The Chicagoland rental market may have finally fallen back to earth in 2015, according to new analysis from Reis. For the 12-month period ending in December, Chicagoland rents rose