The La Grange office of  Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage recently hosted its Annual Chili Cook-Off to benefit the Coldwell Banker Charitable Foundation. Founded in 2007, the charity  supports 22 local housing-related causes that directly benefit the needs of the

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage announced The Shake Agency will be joining its Oak Lawn office. All associates from The Shake Agency will continue to serve their residential and commercial clientele as Coldwell Banker associates. Bruce Shake, owner and principal

Home sales in the nine-county Chicago area posted big increases in March, signaling a bright start to the spring selling season. Counting single family and condos, sales for March were up 23.8 percent from a year ago to totaled

The tear-down, a controversial, boom-era construction strategy, may be making a return to the North Shore – and it’s not returning quietly. According to an extensive article by Trib Local, the tear-down is often associated with a controversial, transformative process

Clare at Watertower was bought at a bankruptcy auction by Harrison, New York-based company, Senior Care Development LLC. Senior Care bid $53.5 million in cash and agreed to take liability for the over $57 million in resident deposits that

@properties and 10 North Shore real estate brokers are joining forces in a merger with well-established Chambers Cross & Associates, a Winnetka-based boutique real estate firm with deep roots in Winnetka. @properties will be able to help Chambers Cross

The Chicago Association of Realtor (CAR) election results have been officially  posted, elections took place at the Board of Directors meeting to determine the new, President Eelct 2012-13, CAR Treasurer 2012-13, NAR Directors 2013-14 and IAR Directors for

As of May 1, Fannie Mae servicers will begin making payments for Chicago’s vacant property ordinance, though they will do so under protest. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fannie servicers will be required to include

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), a Chicagoland mulitple listing service (MLS) has announced that they will be providing multiple listing services to the members of Kankakee-Iroquois-Ford Association of Realtors (KIFAR). MRED is now the service provider for twelve different real

Foreclosure activity was down in the latest foreclosure report from RealtyTrac, which covered foreclosure filings, default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions for the first quarter of 2012. The total properties in these catergories is reported to be 572,928 properties during

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury just released the Obama Administration’s Housing Scorecard for March, showing improvement in some areas from previous months. Raphael Bostic, an assistant secretary for

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By Lani Rosales, AGBeat RealSupport CEO and President Carrie Gable set out to put real estate assistants in agents’ offices without taking up an extra desk, making the process completely virtual. What separates RealSupport, founded in 2000, in the

Longtime Chicago Realtor Jim Kinney will be the Illinois Association of Realtor’s (IAR) treasurer in 2013, a role that will allow him full access to all the advocacy, education and outreach efforts of the association. Kinney, whose works as the vice

  For the second consecutive year Karen Marposon, of Weichert, Realtors-Kingsland Properties in Naperville, has been named the top agent of all Weichert, Realtors offices in 36 states. The ‘Pinnacle Award’ is the highest honor given to associates by

The main thrust of housing’s spring selling season is just around the corner, and in 2012, homebuying may be helped from a most unlikely source – rental rates. In the post-boom housing economy, renting has ascended to its most