MRED has raised its fine for agents who do not enter their listings into the MLS within 72 hours, pending an exemption from the seller. Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicagoland’s MLS, has raised its fine for not entering

Wintrust Financial Corp. agreed to buy the parent of Diamond Bancorp Inc., which has branches in Chicago, Schaumburg, Elmhurst and Northbrook. According to The Chicago Tribune, Schuamburg-based Diamond Bank, which has around $165 million in assets, was losing money as of

The nation’s foreclosure markets continued to improve in June, according to the latest report from CoreLogic. CoreLogic’s National Foreclosure Report for June brought further good news to the housing recovery, with foreclosure inventory and completed foreclosures both showing encouraging

Prudential Rubloff brokers were among the REAL Trends inaugural ranking of the Best Real Estate Agents in America. Others who made it to the list were agents from Coldwell Banker and RE/MAX. The study ranks the most productive agents

Midwest Real Estate Data LLC (MRED) announced today that it has executed an agreement with Realtors Property Resource, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Association of Realtors to integrate MRED’s licensed MLS data with RPR’s national property database and

Chicagoland’s housing recovery has been picking up steam in recent months, but some markets have been performing better than others. What are the busiest housing markets in the city and suburban markets of the Chicagoland area? To answer that

The May Case-Shiller was the best news yet for Chicago’s housing market, with home prices in the city putting up some of the best numbers in the nation. May’s Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report from Standard & Poor’s offered

Related Midwest is buying up big patches of Streeterville, according to a recent article by Crain’s Chicago Business. The company recently bought the defaulted loan on the failed Chicago Spire Project at the end of June, and its new 500-unit apartment

In terms of traffic and contract growth, DuPage County is among the top 5 new construction markets in the nation. DuPage County is one of the top 5 new construction markets in 2013, according to data from Metrostudy. Analyzing

The first half of 2013 produced a significant increase in luxury home sales in Chicago. RE/MAX conducted its Luxury Report on Chicago Real Estate by implementing a bimonthly analysis of city home sales at $1 million plus. Here are

The news was good for housing inventory in Monday’s existing-home sales report from NAR, but has the situation improved at all here at home? Housing inventory nationwide increased just under 2 percent from May to June, rising to a

Chicago’s own @properties began to build on its leading market share in the first half of 2013, and midway through the second quarter landed another major achievement- becoming the largest independent real estate brokerage firm in Illinois for the

After a meeting Monday night, the Evanston City Council rejected a proposal turn the historic Harley Clarke mansion into a boutique hotel. A previous Chicago Agent article mentioned that James Pritzker’s company, Tawani Enterprises, proposed to purchase the mansion and

June was a strong home for home sales in both the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburban markets, according to new research. In the nine-county Chicago Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (PMSA), home sales (single-family and condominiums) in June

Prudential Real Estate, an HSF Affiliates LLC company, have announced that the Prudential Real Estate affiliate network ranked highest for customer satisfaction in three of the four segments included in J.D. Power and Associates’ annual Home Buyer/Seller Satisfaction Study.

The City of Evanston is considering selling the historic Harley Clarke mansion and 2.5 acres of lakefront property for $1.2 million to James Pritzker’s Tawani Enterprises. Tawani is proposing to turn the property into a 57-room boutique hotel and