The national existing-home market nearly gave up the ground won in May with a less-than-stellar showing for June sales, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales of existing homes in June came in 1.7 percent below the previous month’s total, reaching a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 5.27 million.

Weakening home sales, a sluggish new construction market and slowing growth in permitting for home improvement projects have all impacted the pace of remodeling, particularly projects undertaken with the goal of putting properties on the market for a quick sale.

About half of millennials say they wouldn’t need to stretch in order to afford mortgage payments. At this same time last year, only 40 percent of millennial homebuyers said they would have no trouble making mortgage payments on time.

A unique dome-home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice James Dresser in 1952 is listed on the market in Madison, Wisconsin, at $499,000. Though the two-bedroom, two-bathroom home looks more like a mushroom than a flower, the building earned

A Lake Tahoe mansion that once belonged to early gambling innovator William F. Harrah is now on the market for $25.75 million. This 20,000-square-foot waterside home has eight ensuite bedrooms, thirteen bathrooms and a bunk room for twelve. The

With the coming expansion of legal cannabis use in Illinois, real estate professionals need to be prepared for issues that may crop up in their transactions when state and federal laws clash, and one potential result of this mismatch is showing up in the mortgage process.

Hispanic people account for the majority of growth in the U.S. homeownership rate. We asked top-ranked agents how real estate professionals can help sustain that trend.

The country has seen 121 straight months of economic expansion since the Great Recession, the longest-recorded period of economic growth to date. Learn what your industry has done to assist this stellar growth streak.

Though the state with the largest share of home sales to foreign buyers was by far Florida, Illinois ranked as a major destination for buyers from two of the top five international markets. Find out which countries are sending potential clients your way.

RE/MAX’s June 2019 Housing Report for Chicagoland shows overall indicators of slower sales and moderately increasing prices. But the view depends a great deal on which county you’re selling in.

Coldwell Banker chose a ‘Mainstreet, U.S.A’ office in Chicagoland to try out its new branding. Here’s how it’s going so far.

Of the dozens of candidates currently in the running for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2020, several frontrunners have made housing and real estate central pieces of their platforms. Here’s where the current frontrunners in the Democratic

It’s clear more affordable housing is needed, but industry experts take different approaches to solving this common problem.

On the same day, Compass settled a lawsuit against one titan of the real estate industry while finding itself at the center of a new, explosive complaint from another competitor.

Two Chicago-based mortgage companies have now officially joined up with CrossCountry Mortgage and Kris Berger moves to Compass.

New data from Quicken Loans shows homeowners are becoming more realistic about the values of their homes, though exactly how rational they are varies quite a bit from city to city. Find out how Chicago compares to the rest of the country.