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

Guaranteed Rate announced that iconic 1970s superstars, the Village People, have signed on to make the mortgage company’s third annual Disco Dash even more funkadelic by bringing down the house as the headliners of the 5K/10K race. Whether you’re

Michael Pierson and Chris Eigel, principals of the prestigious Chicago-area real estate firm Prudential Rubloff Properties, have appointed Ben Gerstman to the position of managing broker of the firm’s Northbrook office located at 1143 Church Street. “Ben is celebrating

Related’s acquisition of debt increases the likelihood of future projects on the Chicago Spire site Related of New York has agreed to buy the discounted debt on the stalled Chicago Spire condominium property, which was supposed to be North

No industry was more affected by the housing slump than construction, but 10 markets in the U.S. have robust construction markets; is Chicago one of them? Though nearly every industry in the U.S. was impacted by the economic downturn,

Magellan Development’s Coast Tower, a 51-story residential building located in Chicago’s New East Side at 345 E. Wacker Drive, reached 50 percent occupancy, topping the leasing rate of all previous buildings in the 28-acre community adjacent to Millennium Park.

Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Indices put up smashing numbers in April, and here in Chicago, the situation was similarly promising. Chicago home prices rose 2.7 percent from March to April in the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices

According to Best Rate Home Loans, many metro areas, including Chicago, Miami and Boston, are outweighing the national market in their offerings of discounts on foreclosed homes. This comes at a time when the economy and housing market are returning

International homebuyers represent a huge opportunity for real estate agents today, though some cities appeal to foreigners more than others. It’s no mystery that foreign homebuyers make up a hefty chunk of business for many real estate professionals today.