In the Chicagoland market, Chicago had the most luxury home sales in the third quarter of 2017, according to a new report. While the city’s inventory of homes of at least $1 million decreased 5 percent since Q3 2016,

As 2017 reaches its final months, the most dominant trait in residential real estate continues to be low inventory. In Illinois, this meant in September that buyers race to snatch up homes quickly after they’re listed and for higher

Homebuyers are becoming more and more eager to build their homes from scratch, this according to a recent report put out by the National Association of Home Builders in collaboration with the Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. Since last May,

More than 20,000 Realtors, industry experts and guests will be in Chicago from Nov. 3-6 at the 2017 Realtors Conference & Expo, themed “The Sky is the Limit.” Saturday’s general session keynote address will be presented by 23-time Olympic

Redfin Mortgage, an offset of Redfin, is expanding its reaches into Illinois later this year. The loan-lending company, which launched in January 2017, was initially only operating in Texas, but is now setting its sights on Illinois this year

The ability to own your own home is a dream for most Americans, but depending on which part of the country you live in, that may require more working hours than in other locations. A recent report from How Much

Nearly every kid has that creepy house at the end of the lane, the one all their friends would whisper about and race their bikes past. The one the neighborhood children would ding-dong ditch or dare each other to

Just in time for spooky season, Zillow has compiled another list of the 20 best cities for trick-or-treating, and Chicago lands at lucky No. 13. To determine where trick-or-treaters can get the most amount of candy with the least

Amazon’s recent announcement that it is seeking a location for a new second headquarters sent cities around the country — and even in Canada — scrambling to submit proposals to lure the ecommerce giant. Naturally, Chicago wants in on

People in Chicago are regularly inundated with news about the city’s danger and violence, but a new report shows that the country’s third-largest city is safer than typically thought. In the Safe Cities Index 2017, Chicago ranks No. 19

It’s as easy to pay mortgages on time now as it was 10 years ago in July 2007, this according to CoreLogic’s monthly Loan Performance Insights Report. 4.6 percent of mortgages were in some stage of delinquency in July — a decrease of 0.9 percent from July 2016

In the first half of 2017, sales of high-end homes increased substantially while sales of homes $500,000 to $1 million dipped. According to John Irwin Chicago Real Estate, in 2017 there’s been a 26 percent increase in sales for

New data from Trulia shows that people are more adept at searching for homes in their metro area’s suburbs than people who live elsewhere and are looking to move to that metro. In fact, 60 percent of all home

The votes are in! Thank you to the many members of our real estate community, who submitted thousands of votes and shared their enthusiasm for this year’s Agents’ Choice Awards. We’ve tallied up the votes and determined the three

The population loss Chicago has been experiencing in recent years is well-documented, but going over the data with a fine-tooth comb reveals a surprising side effect. Chicago is now the country’s most educated big city, Crain’s Chicago Business reported,

Many major cities around the world are overvalued and at more risk of a bubble than in 2016, according to the UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index 2017. In fact, Chicago is the only major city to be undervalued