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RE/MAX Northern Illinois Honors Residential Top 20 Agents, Teams

The RE/MAX Northern Illinois real estate network recently honored its associates whose 2010 residential sales achievements earned them spots in its year-end Residential Top 20 award

Maintaining List Price

LeapRE ranked the top 100 brokerages in their ability to break the trend – these are the top brokerages who, on average, sold homes for a price closest to the list price, despite having been on the market for

RE/MAX Signature Closes One Thousand Transactions

RE/MAX Signature of Chicago becomes Chicago’s Number one RE/MAX office in transaction volume after their record breaking

How Managing Brokers Can Build a Great Team

How can you make sure you’re hiring the cream of the crop? How can you assemble a team of top producers to put your brokerage at the top of its game? Look for agents with these 10 qualities:

Managing Brokers: Putting in Overtime

By Elizabeth SanFilippo A Real Estate Attorney as a Managing Broker When managing broker and real estate attorney Dan Macahon left RE/MAX a few months ago to start his own independent company, Lake Homes Unlimited, real estate agent Pat

MRED Enters Exclusive Agreement With CoreLogic

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) and CoreLogic announced on June 16 that the two companies entered into an exclusive agreement to participate in CoreLogic’s Partner InfoNet analytics program. MRED, a regional MLS representing 13 Realtor associations and nearly 40,000

Stein and Shipka, Developers of Walton on the Park, Face Battles Over Earnest Money

Luxury Gold Coast condominium project developers, Ronald Shipka Sr. and Richard Stein, recently handed over the reins of their Walton on the Park project (located at One West Walton Street) to Dart Container Corp., but they are not handing

One Superior Place Under New Management

Riverstone Residential Group has acquired management of One Superior Place, a high-rise property in the River North area of downtown

Home Listing Report Shows Lake Forest as Most Expensive Market

Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC released their Home Listing Report (HLR) on June 15. The snapshot survey is of listing prices for four-bedroom, two-bathroom houses in more than 2,300 North American

Historic Six North Michigan Wins Good Neighbor Award

Six North Michigan won a 2011 Good Neighbor Award from the Chicago Association of

HUD Awards Nearly $1.5 Million in Grants to Illinois Counties

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded nearly $1.5 million to Greene County ($130,573), Henry County ($176,493), Knox County ($240,000), Peoria ($240,000), Rock Island ($225,000) and Rockford ($480,000) Housing

“Home Alone” House Reduces Price

The Winnetka house where Home Alone was filmed has been on the market for about a month, recently dropping their price to $2,175 million, according to

Unconventional, Practical Home Designs Gain Popularity

Home designs have taken a turn from the aesthetically pleasing to the practical. Home designs that are unconventional and geared towards a practical purpose, such as “green” homes, are gaining popularity with homeowners and builders

Economist Compares Condo Prices to Home Prices – Condos Fare Slightly Better

With widespread speculation on falling home prices, where the housing market is going from here, and how to maintain the foreclosure backlog, a limited amount of data focuses on the downtown condo market. According to Paul Dales, senior U.S.

Paul Wells Wins Eagle Award

Paul Wells, broker/owner of RE/MAX of Barrington and RE/MAX Now, was awarded the Eagle Award at the RE/MAX Northern Illinois 34th annual awards ceremony. The Eagle Award had not been awarded for over a

The Real Estate Industry Mourns the Loss of Doug Ayers

Doug Ayers, president and CEO of Koenig & Strey Real Living, passed away June 10 at the age of 50, after fighting a heroic battle with cancer. Ayers was beloved and admired by colleagues at Koenig & Strey, and

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