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

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) has named Chris Lambrou, its director of special projects/R&D, its first chair of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) Internet Tracking Workgroup. RESO specializes in obtaining data standards and processes accepted by real estate

Transit Future recently unveiled a plan to extend the Brown line to connect with the Blue line as part of a campaign to renovate and update Chicago’s transit system. The plan would extend the Brown line at Kimball through Elston to

Home prices were up again in July, according to a new report from CoreLogic. Year-over-year, home prices, including distressed sales, jumped 6.9 percent nationwide, while excluding distressed prices increased 6.7 percent. The price increases reflect an overall strengthening of

Commuters waste dozens of hours and thousands of dollars due to Chicago’s traffic problems Chicago is home to many things: beautiful architecture; a glorious lakefront; and, according to new research, some of the worst traffic in the U.S. The latest study

Real Trends has named BairdWarner.com one of the top real estate websites in the country out of 750 companies. Baird and Warner was ranked out of eight categories, and the site came in at No. 2 in the “Best Property