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Camins Tomasz Kritt and GVA Chicago Announce Merger

Chicago-area commercial real estate companies, Camins Tomasz Kritt and GVA Chicago, have announced a merger to become CTK Chicago

Poll: Using Portable Devices

With all the changes and improvements that happen regularly regarding technological devices and applications for phones and tablets, many Realtors have started to embrace technology and incorporate certain mediums into their everyday use. In particular, the iPad seems to

Weekend RE

It seems that downtown Chicago isn’t just for office buildings anymore. According to Curbed.com, the population in the Loop downtown area has nearly tripled to more than 20,000 over the last

Chicago: Top-Searched Market in January on Realtor.com

Realtor.com has released web traffic data and other figures for its site during the month of

Optimal Buyer Market Conditions Linger in Illinois Housing Market

Buyer market conditions remain in most Illinois housing markets as low mortgage interest rates helped spur some early buying in January despite typical slower sales for the winter

Alta at K Station Becomes Largest Gold LEED-Certified Apartment Complex in the United States

Chicago-based Fifield Companies and its joint-venture partner, Pacific Life Insurance Co. of Newport Beach, Calif., have announced that Alta at K Station in downtown Chicago has been awarded Gold LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. The two-tower

Northwest Indiana Homebuilder Associations to Merge

Builder Associations of Indiana’s Lake and Porter counties will merge to form the Home Builders Association of Northwest Indiana, according to

Scottie Pippen Lists His Florida Home

Former Chicago Bulls superstar Scottie Pippen and his wife, Larsa, have listed their Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., home for $16M, according to

Recouping the Cost of Renovating

Whether you’ve lived in your home for 25 years or just moved into a brand new house, you likely have a list of improvement projects you’re considering. Experts say that home renovations should not be done to enhance the

Chicago Has Six New Suburbs Since the Year 2000

Not only are more people living in the suburbs now, there are more suburbs to live in, according to the U.S. Census Bureau data released last

Not Even a Blizzard Stops Real Estate Professionals from Doing Business

You’ve probably heard the expression, “real estate agents never sleep.” For customers of Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), sleep was the least of their concerns when the Great Blizzard of 2011 hit the Chicagoland

First-Time Homebuyers Account for Majority of Illinois Sales in 4Q 2010

The Chicagoland region ended 2010 nearly even with home sales in 2009 while statewide the Illinois housing market continued to ride out the turbulent economic times boosted by sales from the homebuyer tax

California Joint Venture Takes Over New England Builders’ Lake Bluff Development

California thinks they can do it better; a California developer is buying a failed 47-acre residential development in Lake Bluff about seven months after taking over seven suburban projects started by now-defunct Kimball Hill

Chicago Remains Third Largest US City

As data from the 2010 Census is released for states across the country, the figures released yesterday for Texas show that Houston remains smaller than Chicago, the third most populous city in the

Home Sales in Metro Chicago Real Estate Market Showed Resilience During January

Home sales in the seven-county metropolitan Chicago real estate market showed encouraging resilience in January even though total home sales slipped 3.7 percent below the level recorded in the same month of 2010, according to an analysis by

Condo Sales Down and Rentals Up

The downtown residential market has become good for apartment developers and owners, who are benefiting from the lack of condominium sales. During the condo boom, developers hurriedly built new condo buildings and many existing apartment buildings turned condo. However

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