What Chicagoland suburbs saw the most home sales in April? April was a good month for home sales in suburban Chicago, with sales rising 12.8 percent year-over-year. Some suburban markets, though, performed better than others, and utilizing numbers from the

According to the newly released REALTrends 500 report, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage ranked as the top company in sales volume and transaction sides among Chicagoland’s residential real estate companies in 2014. Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage closed $8,781,296,000 in sales volume

David Weekley Homes will soon begin building 48 homes in The Enclave at the Grove, a community located 20 miles from downtown Chicago in Glenview. The privately-held homebuilder recently closed on the 21-acre property and development is currently under

Chicagoland housing sales and prices up in April Spring was in the air for the Chicagoland housing market in April, with sales rising 7.4 percent year-over-year and median price jumping 10.5 percent, according to the latest market report from the Illinois Association of

For the fourth consecutive year, Pangea Properties is recognized for its attempts to rehabilitate rental communities in Chicago’s South and West Sides with the 2015 Good Neighbor Awards. This award is given by the Chicago Association of REALTORS®, which

Karen Ranquist, a broker at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group’s Lincoln Park Clybourn office, will represent the real estate industry as she walks the runway at The Style Session charity benefit. The event will benefit the Step Up Women’s

@properties, the largest independent real estate brokerage firm in Illinois, announced that it has formed a partnership with local technology startup TurboAppeal. The merger will simplify and improve the property tax appeals process for @properties’ clients while offering TurboAppeal

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage announced that Realtor Kelly Janowiak is now affiliated with their Park Ridge office. Janowiak comes to Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage with 14 successful years of real estate experience. A top-producing agent specializing in residential properties

Housing in Chicago’s city market is doing quite well, but what neighborhoods are particularly competitive? Good news abounded in the latest Real Time Housing Market Tracker from Redfin, which offered an exhaustive overview of Chicago’s housing market in April.

Despite an influx of investors to the market, cash sales continue to dwindle throughout the nation. It is a new market for traditional buyers, despite a recent report of surging investor activity, as once again cash sales fell in

A recent study ranked Winnetka near the top in terms of wealth and affluence Winnetka is the second-richest city in America, according to a new analysis from 24/7 Wall St. In its study, which looked at a number of economic

A new report from CoreLogic shows foreclosures are falling across the nation, mostly The nation’s foreclosure inventory is in decline, falling 25.7 percent year-over-year in March, which represents a continued effort to regain the market normalcy enjoyed in pre-crisis

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage recently announced that Realtor Rohit Badola is now affiliated with their Gold Coast office. Badola comes to Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage with two years of real estate experience and 20 years as an engineer. He

Agent Publishing, the country’s dominant hyper-local B2B real estate media company, has announced John Thomas, 50, has joined the firm as editor-in-chief and vice president of content strategy. Most recently, Thomas was director of editorial content for Chicago-based Groupon

What suburban markets in Chicagoland are the most competitive? Last week, we reported on the top-selling suburbs in Chicagoland, and how Aurora and Naperville were once again at the top of the hill. Such a list, though, is heavily

Privlo’s entrance into the Illinois mortgage market means good news for the self-employed. In Chicago, 12.6 percent of conventional mortgage loan applicants are denied. It’s an exceedingly high figure (one of the most significant in the country, in fact),