After weeks of voting and more than 48,000 votes cast, we finally announced the winners of our 2015 Agents’ Choice Awards last night at our party at beautiful OneEleven Wacker. See below for the complete list of winners! Rookie of the

Baird & Warner recently announced the winners of their ‘160 Years of Giving Back’ contest. Sixteen local Chicagoland nonprofits each received a $10,000 grant, with the total company donation being over $160,000. Recipients were hand-picked by the public to celebrate Baird

The Illinois Association of Realtors’ Board of Directors voted unanimously to change the name of the organization at its Fall Business Meeting. The change would switch from the name from IAR, which the association has used since 1973, to

Winnetka, Hinsdale and Lake Forest are among Chicagoland’s top luxury housing markets. We recently reported on both the top-selling and most competitive suburban housing markets in Chicagoland, with such markets as Naperville, Aurora, Lake Zurich and Villa Park earning

Recovery continues as foreclosure levels dropped yet again in August. National foreclosure inventory fell 25.2 percent year-over-year and completed foreclosures dropped 20.1 percent, according to a new report from CoreLogic. The latest decline in foreclosures is only the latest step

Where in the Chicagoland area is the competition for housing the fiercest? The other week, we reported that Naperville, Aurora and Joliet were once again the top-selling suburbs in the Chicagoland area. That news was hardly surprising, given that

Click on the tabs below to see the top single-family, condo and townhome closings in Chicagoland’s housing market in September: Single Family Condo Townhome Single Family Sales Price Property Agent Brokerage $5,500,000 1870 North Orchard Street, Chicago Emily Sachs Wong

The iconic building has hit the selling block, and the possibilities are many Tribune Tower, the 1925 gothic skyscraper that has been the longtime home of the Chicago Tribune, is now for sale, according to an announcement from Tribune Media. The company,

Mike Drews was installed as the 2016 president of the Illinois Association of Realtors on Oct. 6 at the Illinois Association of Realtors Inaugural Gala. He is a broker-associate with Charles B. Doss & Co. in Aurora. Drews has been active

Chicago holds a majority of zombie foreclosures, vacant homes Despite a 43 percent national drop of “zombie” foreclosures, they still remain a problem in several parts of the country, according to a RealtyTrac study. The study, which was looking at “zombie” foreclosures

What neighborhoods, in Chicago’s competitive housing market, are seeing the most activity? The other week, we reported that with 266 home sales in August, the Near North Side was once again Chicago’s top-selling neighborhood, with Lincoln Park, the West Loop and Lakeview

Chicago is the No. 5 luxury housing market in the country for homes $1 million and up, according to the new Coldwell Banker Previews International Luxury Market Report. The report analyzed which U.S. cities had the highest number of luxury

A new plan has been approved for the old Cabrini-Green site. What will be the impact on area housing? A recent court ruling has accelerated the new mixed-income housing development in Cabrini Green. Hundreds of public housing units will be constructed

The rental market in Chicago has been red-hot for some time now, but is it finally tapering off? And what would that mean for homeownership? The average rent in Chicago’s housing market is $1,145, and the area’s rental growth is

Sales continued their strong march forward in August, as CoreLogic reported both year-over-year and month-to-month increases. While the extent of home price gains varied often and sometimes greatly from metro to metro in August, the national direction has remained

With 247 closed transactions in 2014, Mary Wallace of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage’s Oak Lawn Office was ranked No. 35 in the 2015 REAL Trends/Wall Street Journals – Top Thousand Real Estate Agent list. Wallace also ranked third in Illinois by