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Home prices are rising across the country, but in Chicago, the market is deemed stable

The CoreLogic HPI Forecast indicates U.S. price index will reach 5.3 percent by November 2020.

Waterfall-front property

Nestled up against the rushing rapids of Kinderhook Creek in Valatie, New York, this historic property spent a century as a cotton mill before being converted to a hydroelectric power plant. Now that the turbines are offline, what was originally the caretaker’s home is on the market.

Classic country church vibes

Built in 1877, this former church on a prominent corner in North Bloomfield, Ohio, is on the market at the markdown price of $39,900. Though the worship space is still in place on the main level, the property does have two partial bathrooms, and the basement features a full kitchen and office spaces, perfect for coffee and donuts or conversion to bedrooms.

Chicago home price gains up slightly for the year

S&P Dow Jones Indices director calls price gains data reassuring.

Pending home sales bounce back, though activity is dampened in the Midwest

After a slowdown in October, contract signings were up 1.2 percent in November, according to the National Association of Realtors.

The top stories of 2019

You can’t start the new year without understanding what happened this year. Get a head start on your 2020 competition by reading the top viewed stories from 2019.

10 brokers you met in 2019

Every two weeks we offer readers another opportunity to get to know a member of the Chicagoland real estate community through our Agent Snapshot feature. Check out the most popular profiles of 2019.

Meet the Who’s Who all-stars of 2019

If you’ve seen our Who’s Who in Residential Real Estate issue, you know it’s our thickest print issue of the year. That means the brokers, lenders, developers and affiliates featured here had to be pretty popular to rise to

Top 10 cover stories of 2019

Want to see the magazine issues that got the most attention this year? Check out the covers and stories that were most beloved by your fellow readers in 2019.

Tavern, sweet tavern

This stone structure was built in the early 1700s as the local watering hole and is located smack-dab in the center of historic Waterford, Virginia. The property has since been transformed into a 4-bedroom, 3-bath home.

Totally rad

Truly a property frozen in time, a lakeside residence located alongside California’s Lake Arrowhead comes onto the market straight from the 1980s.

Lincoln Yards, Chicago rendering
More community engagement on the horizon for megadevelopments

Lincoln Yards and The 78 will both get separate community advisory councils to make recommendations on the development process, an approach that could become commonplace for all major projects in the city.

Home sales up in the Midwest but down in Illinois

The latest numbers from Realtor associations at the local, state and national level reveal a “choppy” picture, but one key factor is the same in pretty much every market you look at.

The solution to the affordability crisis is right in our backyards, says a new report

Relaxed zoning could create millions of new homes in America’s single-family neighborhoods, according to a new report from Zillow.

Despite sales decrease, Chicagoland market is ‘balanced’ and ‘healthy’

In the context of larger real estate shifts, both MORe and RE/MAX characterize local real estate as being in equilibrium.

Is home construction finally making a rebound?

Single-family construction is currently at a post-recession high, indicating future growth ahead.

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