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),

What is the state of new construction in Chicagoland, as the market creeps towards recovery? New construction in the 10-county Chicagoland area stumbled somewhat in 2015’s first quarter, with new home sales falling 4.2 percent from 2014 to 1,047

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage recently promoted Chris Haran to vice president of field operations. In his new role, Haran is responsible for overall strategic initiatives and field operations for the Coldwell Banker local operating company in the Chicagoland, Northwest Indiana,

March represents another month of home price appreciation, according to CoreLogic. CoreLogic released its March Home Price Index (HPI) today, and the findings reflected a continued strengthening of prices nationwide. Including distressed sales, national home prices rose 5.9 percent in

This year is shaping up to be a transformative one for new construction in Chicagoland. After several years in the shadows, it seems that Chicagoland’s new construction marketplace is finally returning to prominence. According to the latest analysis from

Chicago’s luxury market may have done well in 2014 – indeed, according to the RE/MAX Luxury Report on Metro Chicago, sales of homes priced at $1 million or higher in Cook and the collar counties increased by 7 percent