What Chicagoland neighborhoods saw the most home sales in August? Home sales in the city of Chicago may have been up 6.3 percent in August, according to statistics from the Illinois Association of Realtors, but as with every month, those sales were spread out

Yesterday, Chicago City Clerk Susana Mendoza proposed an all-access parking pass that would give real estate agents access to restricted neighborhood parking zones during the day and early evening. According to a report in Crain’s, the pass would cost

According to a recent survey from Charles Schwab, native Chicagoans picked Naperville as the place they would most like to call home. Over 1,000 Chicago residents between the ages 21 to 75 years old were polled on their most

What Chicagoland suburbs saw the most home sales in August? Home sales in suburban Chicago rose 4.3 percent in August, according to statistics from the Mainstreet Organization of Realtors. Of Chicagoland’s many municipalities, though, which ones saw the most

Developer Crescent Heights and architect Rafael Viñoly unveiled plans Tuesday for a 76-story tower at 113 E. Roosevelt Road in the South Loop. This project would mark Crescent Heights’ first Chicago project, and would be built in phases, possibly

Illinois has the fifth least fair tax system in the country. That was one of the findings in WalletHub’s application of a nationally representative survey to rank which states had the most and least fair tax systems. The survey

As the summer homebuying season winds to a close, Chicagoland’s housing market cools its jets Home sales in the nine-county Chicagoland area totaled 10,854 in August, a 2.8 percent increase from a year ago, according to new numbers from

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Mike Long, a real estate professional of 17 years, has joined Naperville-based john greene Realtor as a broker. “It’s exciting for me to join a firm that has one of the most impeccable reputations working in the same neighborhoods

David Weekly Homes recently hosted a Back to School Drive that benefited the Walter and Connie Payton Foundation. The organization helps abused, neglected and underprivileged children in Illinois. David Weekly Homes’ CARE program is a volunteer project that partners team members,

Since last year, more than one million homes have found their way out of negative equity, a report from CoreLogic revealed. Since the second quarter of 2014, when 5.4 million homes, or 10.9 percent of all residential mortgages, were underwater, strong

Sterling Bay is on the brink of acquiring A. Finkl and Sons steel mill in Lincoln Park, according to a recent article in Crain’s. It’s expected that the Chicago developer could spend $1 billion dollars on the deal, which will make this

Click on the tabs below to see the top single-family, condo and townhome closings in Chicagoland’s housing market in August Single Family Condo Townhome Single Family Sales Price Property Agent Office $4,689,900 473 W Superior, Chicago Laura Rubin Baird &

Coldwell Bankers Residential Brokerage had announced that it has obtained the assets of Chicago Apartment Finders, a rental search site with five locations: Lakeview, Edgewater, Bucktown/Wicker Park, Downtown and Hyde Park. Fran Broude, president of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Chicago,

The “brain drain problem” is anything but a problem The Chicago-Naperville-Elgin area saw a 32.5 percent gain in people aged above 25 with bachelor’s degrees or higher, according to a new study by the Manhattan Institute. That is also

Foreclosures continued losing market share in July, as inventory declined 27.9 percent from the same time last year, with completed foreclosures dropping 24.4 percent, according to CoreLogic’s latest report. Foreclosure inventory represented 1.2 percent of all mortgaged homes in