Illinois REALTORS® Immediate Past President Ezekiel “Zeke” Morris has been named as the association’s 2023 REALTOR® of the Year. The award honors his dedication to excellence and impact on the industry.

The brokerage says the “business communities” — KW Operations, KW Wellness and KW Clarity — provide agents with specialized training, technology, coaching and referral opportunities. 

Frank J. Williams was a winner at NAR’s Fair Housing Champion Awards, honoring his decades of service at both the state and local level.

Statewide home sales were down year over year in March 2023, according to new data from Illinois REALTORS®. However, sales were up 46% month over month.

Chicago’s suburban market is still frenzied, according to the Mainstreet Organization of REALTORS®. And baby boomers are driving much of the action.

Corcoran Urban Real Estate has added Tyler Stalling and Sophie Xu to its leadership team, the company recently announced.

Sometimes, you just have to check Zillow. But where do shoppers linger longest on the website? That’s what HouseFresh investigated in a recent study.

Fulton Grace has opened a new office in Gurnee, located at 5101 Washington Street, Suite 24. On April 27, there is a grand opening celebration.

Since 1972, the Building Industry Association of Greater Chicago has honored the best of the best in the building industry with its annual Key Awards.

@properties and Christie’s International Real Estate is expanding to Madison, Wisconsin, by partnering with a local brokerage there. That firm, LeGrand Real Estate, is rebranding @properties elleven Christie’s International Real Estate.

In Chicago, home prices rose 4.8% year over year and dipped 0.5% month over month.

The median Illinois home price stayed the same in February 2023, year over year, according to new data from Illinois REALTORS®: $240,000.

Tiny Bannockburn has a population of just 1,315, but the Lake County suburb ranked No. 1 on Niche’s new list of the best places to live in Illinois.

Nationally, the week of April 16-22 is likely to provide sellers with the most favorable conditions for a successful sale of any week of the year, although the exact timing varies widely by market. 

Four decades after its founding, HODC remains true to its mission: to develop, manage and preserve housing that is affordable to low- and moderate-income households, primarily in Chicago’s northern suburbs.

The trends we’ve been noticing across Chicago’s suburban housing market were reinforced by new data from the Mainstreet Organization of REALTORS®.