Nationally, home-price growth topped 1% for the first time in 2026.

Single-family home sales were up 4.8% year over year, while attached home sales rose 1.8%. 

The same trends were seen in the city of Chicago and across Illinois. 

Nationally, home sales in the 51 metro areas surveyed by REMAX showed measured growth of 8.9% month over month and 7.8% year over year, REMAX said. 

The hearing will determine whether Zillow can continue enforcing its ban on MRED’s listing feed while its lawsuit against Compass and MRED proceeds toward trial. 

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Nationally, the median list price slipped 2.4%, marking the eighth month in a row of declines. 

The bill focuses on increasing housing supply, easing development barriers, expanding financing options and supporting a wider range of housing needs across the country.

S&P Dow Jones Indices noted that inflation outpaced national home-price appreciation for the 11th month in a row. 

Home sales in the 51 metro areas surveyed by REMAX rose 7.9% month over month and slid 0.5% year over year. 

Saul Pinela is the top-transacting Latino mortgage originator in Chicagoland, according to the annual Top 250 ranking from the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals.

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Inventory rose 3.3% month over month and 0.6% year over year to 1.55 million homes, which equals a 4.5-month supply of unsold inventory, NAR said. 

Jesus Perez is the top-transacting Latino agent in Chicagoland, according to the annual Top 250 Latino Agents ranking from the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals.

Nationwide, it takes six years to break even on homeownership, down from an all-time high of 8.4 years in 2023.

The median sales price of new homes sold in April rose 8% to $422,500 from $391,100 in March, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported.