CAR’s 2020 Market Update featured forecasts from three economists looking at what the real estate community can expect in the near future. However, there was some disagreement in terms of what the coming year will bring.

Jobs are up, unemployment is steady, but wages barely budged and construction job growth was weak.

Realtor.com releases down payment analysis, showing disparity in cost between major metro areas.

Is it a good time to buy? Good time to sell? What’s happening with the economy? The answers to these questions change in relation to how much money you earn, where you live and how old you are.

More good news for the 2020 housing market: Year-over-year, Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index was up 8.2 points in December.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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