Yesterday, as we confirmed in a post, respected Baird & Warner agent Robert John Anderson passed away suddenly in his home. “Robert John was one of the most passionate real estate professionals that I have ever met,” Steve Baird,

Our city’s rental markets have performed quite well in recent years, and 2014 seems to be no exception. The average rent in Chicagoland in 2014’s third quarter was $1,110, a 1 percent increase from the second quarter and a

How does the down payment in Chicagoland compare with other metro areas? According to analysis from LendingTree, the average down payment in Chicagoland is 16.28 percent of the mortgage, which comes out to $47,370. How does this compare with

It has been confirmed that Robert John Anderson, a well-respected Baird & Warner agent, has passed away. Richard Druker, senior vice president and managing broker of Baird & Warner, confirmed the news in an email to Baird & Warner’s

Construction is the residential sphere is keeping pace in Chicagoland in 2014 According to the latest numbers from the Census Bureau, residential construction spending in August was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $351.7 billion, down 0.1 percent

Chicagoland foreclosures remain above national rates, but down significantly from 2013. In January 2013, Chicagoland foreclosure and 90-plus day delinquency rates were nearly double what they are today, confirmed CoreLogic in its latest report. Over the past 18 months,

The term “bubble” gets thrown around often nowadays, but the data does not support such statements. The great housing bubble of 2001 to 2008 was a mammoth economic event, one that pulled the housing market through a verifiable roller

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicagoland’s multiple listing service (MLS), is participating with the Chicago section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and other technology companies at Hack Chicago 2014, a hackathon event promoting the City

Anne Hartnett, co-founder of Agent Publishing, has been nominated as one of Folio’s Top Women in Media. Folio is a multi-channel resource for the magazine and online media industry that uses digital media, print and events to help media

Belgravia Realty Group, a well respected, Chicago-based brokerage firm that is part of the Belgravia Group, Ltd. family of companies, recently announced the addition of Pamela Moran to their sales team. Moran’s passion for real estate began in 1997

As demolition of the A. Finkl & Sons Co. steel mill kicks off within the next two months, real estate developers interested in the property are bound to challenge the industrial corridor’s planned manufacturing district (PMD). In the 1980s,

As of Aug. 4, Florida and Illinois have entered an agreement to permit mutual recognition of real estate licensure in both states. This reciprocal agreement allows agents in Illinois to do business in Florida and vice versa. Illinois agents who

Of Chicagoland’s many neighborhoods, which ones saw the most home sales in August? Last week, we reported on the top-selling suburbs in the Chicagoland area in August, and courtesy once again of data from Redfin, we’re back with the

@properties, the largest residential brokerage firm in the city of Chicago and the largest independent real estate firm in Illinois, is continuing its rapid expansion throughout Chicagoland with the opening of an office in Barrington. This marks the firm’s

American homeowners are finding that rising home prices are helping them reclaim some of the equity lost during the housing crisis, CoreLogic reports. The value of homes, since the bursting of the housing bubble in 2007, have been struggling

Of Chicagoland’s many distinguished suburbs, which ones saw the most home sales in August? Earlier this week, we reported that August was a rough month for home sales in Chicagoland, with transactions falling by 13.3 percent from the year