Christine Chase has been recognized as the 2012 Realtor of the year by the organization, Realtors (MORe). The recipient of the award is selected using a list of criteria that includes local, sate and national Realtor association service, community

Trulia has just announced a partnership with Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) to directly syndicate more than 100,000 MRED listings in Chicago, northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin and northwest Indiana through its site. MRED is the largest MLS in the country based on listing

Michael Jordan listed his longtime residence in Highland Park earlier today, putting the nine-bedroom, 15-bath, five-fireplace property on the market for $29 million. A secluded compound with three levels and more than 56,000 square feet of livable space, the

Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Index for the 20-City Composite fell 1.1 percent from November to December, capping off a 3.8 percent decline in the fourth quarter of 2011 and 4.0 percent year-over-year decline that pushed the rate

Calling all developers and builders: if you have a new construction property, it needs to be in Chicago Agent‘s new construction grid in our New Construction

How did existing-home sales look in January? Is Quicken Loans preparing to take the stand in the nation’s highest court? And could Illinois become even more smoke free? We look at the week’s top news (Feb. 20 – Feb.

What if, at the click of a mouse, you could tell your clients the exact distance from their prospective new home to their work, schools, the train, the grocery store and even the gym? Midwest Real Estate Data announced that

American writer/journalist and iconic man of male bravado, Ernest Hemingway’s childhood home in Oak Park where he spent a great deal of time on various literary attempts, has been put on the market for $525K. The house, built in

Baird and Warner have announced that they have added two senior sales management professionals to their roster of brokers. Penny Sirott, formerly of Coldwell Banker, and Richard Murawski, from Koeing & Strey, specialize in real estate in the Chicagoland

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokeragerecognizes Nancy Gibson as top agent of Northbrook for the ninth year in a row, and the fourth highest producing agent within the entire Chicago North Shore region. Gibson has achieved this success through closing 55

Year-over-year homes in Illinois increased 16.1 percent in January to 6,435 homes, the strongest showing for the embattled housing market since 2007, according to data released today by the Illinois Association of Realtors (IAR). Loretta Alonzo, the president of IAR,

When the Smoke Free Illinois Act took effect Jan. 1, 2008, public places and places of employment throughout the state were required to be smoke-free inside and within 15 feet of entrances, exits, windows that open and ventilation intakes. The

The saga continues in the ever-complicating fight between the city of Chicago and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) over a vacant housing ordinance the city passed in October to combat plummeting home values and rising crime rates through charging servicers

How affordable have homes become? How did residential construction begin the year? And how will foreclosures react to the mortgage settlement? We survey the week’s top news in real estate (Feb. 13 to Feb. 17) by the

By Chelsea Lameira Although there has been some controversy and negative feedback around the acquisition of four Keller Williams offices by Coldwell Banker, several agents describe the transition from Keller Williams to Coldwell Banker as a positive experience. Former

Chris Eigel and Michael Pierson of Chicago real estate firm Prudential Rubloff Properties  are proud to announce that Elizabeth Jakaitis is the newest member of the Lake Forest sales team. Jakaitis has been recognized among the top 5 percent of