Builders Digital Experience, Inc. (BDX), a joint venture between Move, Inc. and Builder Homesite, Inc., announced this month a unique partnership with nine multiple listing services – including Chicagoland’s Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) – to provide new home

After weeks of voting and hundreds upon hundreds of votes cast, we have our nominees for the 2013 Agents’ Choice Awards. Stay tuned for our Nov. 4 Agents’ Choice issue, where we will announce the winners!     Here

Builder confidence had been on a tear recently, but new data from the NAHB suggests a cooling off period. Builder confidence for the newly built, single-family home market stumbled a bit in October, with the National Association of Home

There are many ways that homeowners can improve their residences, but what projects are the most popular? Home improvement projects are among the key tenets of homeownership. You purchase a home, renovate certain aspects of it, and then, several

What are Vampire REOs and Zombie Foreclosures? And what problems do they pose for the housing market? Last week, we reported on the latest National Foreclosure Report from CoreLogic, and the news was uniformly good: foreclosure inventory was down a

The U.S. prides itself for its strong middle class, but how many options does that middle class have for housing in the nation’s largest cities? Homeownership has long been a cornerstone of the modern American Dream, the ultimate symbol

Housing affordability has been on the decline this year, but by how much? And what will affordability look like when rates increase? It’s been an interesting year in the world of housing affordability. Record low mortgage rates and competitively

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicagoland’s multiple listing service (MLS), announced today that several of its representatives will be attending the 2013 Council of Multiple Listing Services (CMLS) Conference taking place this week in Boise, Idaho. CMLS is the

Foreclosures are a persistent problem in Chicago’s housing market, but not in all the city’s neighborhoods. Every month, CoreLogic and RealtyTrac release new data on foreclosures in the nation’s housing market, and every month, Chicago is near the top

The Illinois Association of Realtors (IAR) recently installed its 2014 leadership, which includes a new president, president-elect and treasurer. Phil Chiles, a broker associate with the Real Estate Group in Springfield, will lead the IAR as its president in

The nation’s foreclosure markets have been showing considerable improvement in 2013, but did that trend continue in August? The good news continued for the nation’s foreclosure markets, according to CoreLogic’s latest National Foreclosure Report, with foreclosure inventory, completed foreclosures

Consumer sentiment on the housing market has gone nowhere but up in the last few months, but does the latest survey from Fannie Mae suggest a slowdown? Baby, we had a great run. Though consumer confidence on the housing

The nation’s rental markets have been quite hot in the post-boom housing market; did that trend continue into the third quarter? There have been two distinct memes in the housing market since 2008, both involving the nation’s rental market.

The Baird & Warner Good Will Network donated $50,000 to Chicagoland charities this month. This grant is in addition to a nearly $60,000 contribution that Baird & Warner made earlier this year to a number of other Chicago area

Asking prices may have slowed nationwide in September, but here in Chicago, prices put up strong numbers on both yearly and quarterly measures. Asking prices in Chicagoland’s housing market were up a robust 14.5 percent year-over-year in September, along

Strong school districts are often a top selling point for certain neighborhoods, but how do they translate to the median price of the area? It’s gotta be among the most common of questions that real estate agents receive –