Mortgage rates are at their highest levels in years, but how are they impacting the decisions of potential homebuyers? A new Trulia survey explains. Well, it was fun while it lasted! After falling for a sustained, seemingly endless length

CoreLogic’s National Foreclosure Report for May offered another dose of positivity for housing, with foreclosure inventory down by nearly a third. The U.S. foreclosure markets continued to improve in May, according to the latest National Foreclosure Report from CoreLogic.

More than 70 percent of metro areas in the U.S. are now a proud part of the NAHB’s Improving Markets Index, according to the association’s latest tally. A total of 255 metropolitan areas were featured in the July Improving

Kale Realty, which specializes in both residential and commercial sales, leasing and property management, announced that it has hired its 200th agent. In addition, this is the company’s 62nd year serving Chicago. The company is also known as the

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicagoland’s multiple listing service (MLS), has announced that its CEO, Russ Bergeron, will be featured as a panel member at the 2013 Inman Real Estate Connect Conference in San Francisco. MRED has also been

Michael Golden and Thaddeus Wong, co-founders of Chicago real estate firm @properties, were named winners of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2013 Award in the Midwest, in the Services category. The awards were presented at a

Chicago’s MRED MLS members now have access to more robust listings data with Move’s FIND application. Move’s FIND Application, a tool that allows MLSs to provide members with quick and easy access to Multiple Listing Services data, is now

While most people were watching the fireworks on the Fourth of July, real estate broker Gary Dailey was stopping a robbery. Dailey was walking near Oak Street Beach to meet up with his girlfriend, when he came across a large

Redfin’s Real-Time Fastest Markets Report offers an interesting glimpse at what housing markets are seeing the most activity. Is Chicago among them? Housing demand lessened somewhat nationwide in May, according to the latest Real-Time Fastest Markets Report from Redfin,

After finally bottoming, asking prices in Chicagoland are on a seriously promising trajectory, according to the latest Trulia Price Monitor. Asking prices in Chicagoland bounced back in a major way in June, increasing 8.4 percent year-over-year and 5.4 percent

A seven-bedroom French provincial home on Sheridan Road  in Winnetka sold for $12.7 million last month, the highest-priced home sale in Chicago so far this year. The 15,000-square-foot lakefront home was built in 2010, and has 137 feet of

May was yet another month of double-digit home price increases, according to the latest Home Price Index from CoreLogic. Home prices in the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI) increased 12.2 percent year-over-year in May, the largest such increase since

Related Realty has officially opened its doors to its newest office on 350 West Hubbard Street. President of Related Realty, David Wolf commented on the new office space. “Now that we’re up and running with a talented team of

United Real Estate, a fast-growing urban-centric real estate and franchise operation company, today announced its achievement of reaching 100 agents in the United Real Estate Chicago office, only one year after its grand opening. United Real Estate has been

The housing market is moving towards recovery with U.S. home prices increasing, found FNC in its latest study of the market. U.S. home prices are continuing to climb in April, as stated by the most recent FNC Residential Price

Housing prices have been uniformly increasing the last year, but a new Trulia study finds that city markets have the edge on their suburban competitors. City or suburbs? It’s one of the prevailing questions in real estate today, whether