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3 trends that millennials will bring to the market in 2020

In its predictions for 2020, Zillow revealed a few ways in which Gen Y might impact housing in the near future.

Chicago ranked 6th among 50 most sustainable cities

Chicago earns a top spot in this new ranking thanks to its walkability and access to transportation, as well as its growth in LEED-certified buildings.

Chicago ranked internationally as a top smart city

Learn where Chicago is doing a particularly good job in technological advancement, and how this investment can pay off in the local economy.

Which Chicagoland ZIP codes are most expensive?

Though Illinois didn’t rank on a recent list of the 100 priciest ZIP codes in the U.S., one Chicagoland spot stood out for a median sales price topping $1 million. Find out which one.

Transit oriented

An old-fashioned railway depot-turned-residence located in Pennington, New Jersey, is back on the market for just $450,000. The station was built in 1882 and was in use until its retirement in 1967. The Victorian-style property is on the National Register of Historic Places and it is even rumored that President Theodore Roosevelt was a frequent patron.

Midcentury style with storage

What was once a top-secret, Cold War-era missile bunker has now been converted into a functional home, offering buyers a modern kitchen, sleeping quarters and their own personal freight elevator. The complex — located more than 60 feet under the earth — was designed and built in the 1960s and used as a missile storage site by the U.S. military up until the early 1980s.

Record-breaking employment figures offer positive picture for 2020

It’s been decades since the unemployment rate was this low. Find out how that might affect real estate.

Realtor.com predicts Chicagoland home sales will decline slightly in 2020

It seems 2020 will be a challenge for buyers – “not because of what they can afford but rather what they can find,” according to Realtor.com.

Is Chicagoland safe? It’s complicated.

A new study purports to reveal the safest cities in America.

Chicago home prices fairly valued, according to CoreLogic

Also included in the report is the finding that millennials are generally unconcerned about qualifying for a home loan.

Team building through homebuilding

Some brokerages are finding synchronicity by partnering with Habitat Chicago. Learn how it’s done and what giving back in this way can do for your business.

Loan limit increase good news for Chicago homebuyers

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loan limits will be raised to more than half a million dollars.

Chicagoland home prices up in September, though far below national trend

The rebound could mean an accelerating market nationwide.

Where properties moved the fastest in Q3 2019

The quicker properties sell, the hotter the neighborhood. We’ve ranked all 77 of Chicago’s neighborhoods in terms of the average number of days properties spent on the market in the third quarter of 2019, according to MRED.

Where sellers got more than they asked for in Q3 2019

One measure of a neighborhood’s popularity is how much more buyers are willing to spend above listing price. Here’s the average difference between the original listing price and the eventual sales price in all 77 of Chicago’s neighborhoods for the third quarter of 2019, according to MRED.

Vintage timepiece

In 1907, Max Scmidtt designed an industrial property complete with a clocktower penthouse to house his large-scale printing company in South Beach, San Francisco. Today, the building houses a 3,000-square-foot luxury pad that’s now on the market at $6 million.

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