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

Since 2014, home prices have been in what CoreLogic Chief Economist Frank Nothaft recently described as a “sweet spot,” consecutively rising between 5 and 6 percent for 15 months. According to the research group’s newest report, home prices rose

Chicago continues foreign investment boom through 2015 More foreign money has been spent on real estate in 2015 in Chicago than any year prior, according to a Crain’s Chicago Business report. In total, $3.27 billion dollars have been spent on

The latest analysis from Dodge Data provided an encouraging assessment of new construction in Chicagoland According to the latest numbers from Dodge Data & Analytics, residential construction spending in the Chicagoland housing market totaled $397 million in November, and

Wolf Point owners, the AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust (BIT), Hines and Magellan Development Group announced today that the companies’ luxury apartment tower along the Chicago River in Chicago’s River North neighborhood, Wolf Point West, will open this month. Wolf Point

Chicago has the third most-affordable hot job market, according to a resource set up by Indeed and realtor.com. Fifty-nine percent of homes in Chicago were considered affordable. The sites set out to determine which major metro areas had both a