Nationally, homeowners with mortgages saw their home equity increase by 16.2% year-over-year from the fourth quarter of 2019.

It also ranks among the top 20 states in the education, opportunity and crime and corrections categories.

@properties has named Tom Downing and Kelly Kirchheimer as vice presidents of brokerage services and designated managing brokers for the Winnetka and Downers Grove offices, respectively.

The mortgage lender looked at the average salaries of successful applicants in each city, their average FICO credit scores, the average size of their loan requests and the median list price for that location.

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago has promoted managing broker John Lawrence to manage the company’s Elmhurst office.

To help you best serve clients in these uncertain times, we consulted with three of the city’s top lenders to find out their expectations for 2021 and what changes caused by the pandemic are here to stay.

There’s no shortage of people borrowing money these days. The real challenge is matching up the right client with the right project, according to Gary Williams of Rothschild Capital Solutions.

“I have always appreciated their professional presence in our industry, and when they moved into the area I work in, I became intrigued.” Dympna Fay-Hart, Dream Town

As a member of the residential brokerage firm’s education team, Paoli will help to create and lead programs related to business development, marketing and sales, as well as its trademarked suite of technology applications.

In Chicago, 31.9% of Redfin offers faced bidding wars in January compared to 26.3% in December 2020.