Coldwell Banker recently named Deborah Benavides the Relocation Operations Manager for its Central U.S. region. In this position, Benavides will manage the operations of the Coldwell Banker Relocation Service Center in Deerfield, Ill. and support the relocation efforts in the Chicago, Milwaukee,

Home prices in Chicagoland are growing, albeit at a slow rate. Chicagoland home prices posted lukewarm numbers in the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, which looked at data from Dec. 2014 to Jan. 2015. From December to January, Chicagoland

Nancy Nagy, Michael Pierson and Chris Eigel, CEO, President and Chairman Emeritus of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty, respectively, accepted an award for the No. 3 brokerage in the nation on behalf of the firm and its agents at

Debbie Wood was recently named the new manager of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage’s Lakeview office. As manager, Wood will oversee 100 real estate agents and assist with managing daily activities at the office. With 13 years of experience as

Leading Real Estate Brokerage Owned by Same Family for Five Generations Baird & Warner kicked off its 160th year in business on March 28, 2015. Founded in 1855, Baird & Warner has been a family-owned company for five generations

Housing affordability is a major problem, and new research has added an additional wrinkle to the crisis. Housing affordability (especially in the new home market) may be worsening nationwide, but it has nothing on the affordability squeeze facing renters

What was the deal with our local new construction marketplace last month? February proved a lackluster month for residential new construction in the Chicagoland area, according to new numbers from Dodge Data & Analytics. For the month, residential construction

The RE/MAX Northern Illinois real estate network recently honored its associates whose 2014 residential sales achievements earned them coveted spots in its year-end Residential Top 20. Each year, the network gives special recognition to its Top 20 individual residential

Everyone should be concerned about rising levels of inequality – especially residential real estate professionals. The Brookings Institution just updated its data metrics on inequality in the U.S.’ largest metro areas, and the results are – to put it

On Sunday, Feb. 22, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices KoenigRubloff Realty Group held a pet adoption event at its Schaumburg office. Chicagoland Dog Rescue, a foster based dog rescue in Schaumburg, and the KoenigRubloff Cares Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports local

Clayton Jirak, a real estate agent with Redfin, has been selected from a distinguished pool of candidates as one of 50 finalists for Realtor magazine’s 30 Under 30 contest, class of 2015. Jirak, who specializes in the North Side

In the nine-county Chicago Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area, home sales in February totaled 5,611, a decrease of 1.3 percent from Feb. 2014, according to the latest analysis from the Illinois Association of Realtors. Though still a decrease, February’s sales activity

The single-family home market for new construction has trended towards affluence, and so has the rental market. The last couple months, we’ve been reporting with regularity on how our nation’s issues with inequality have manifested themselves in new construction,

Sure, negative equity has improved overall, but what of properties on the lower-end of price spectrum? Though 25.1 percent of mortgage properties in Chicagoland remain in negative equity, that pales in comparison to the 41.5 percent of properties in

Fortune Magazine recently published its annual list of the most admired companies in the world, and Berkshire Hathaway found itself ranked as the third most admired company, just below Apple and Google. As part of the Berkshire Hathaway family

Homeowners are benefiting from rising home prices that improve equity, but that doesn’t mean negative equity still isn’t a problem. Equity continued building in the fourth quarter of 2014, CoreLogic’s newest report concluded, showing that by year’s end, 1.2