U.S. homebuilders haven’t seen quite the same gains as the broader real estate market in recent years, but signs are beginning to point in the industry’s favor this year. A new report from LEK Consulting and Wells Fargo’s U.S.

Changing tides in the national real estate market are leading to the most widespread inventory increases seen in at least five years. According to data collected by Zillow, for the first time since 2014, the U.S. housing market posted

The intense cold experienced this January prevented more than just a couple cars from starting. According to the RE/MAX January 2019 housing report, home sales in Chicago also experienced a decreased year-over-year change of 11.2 percent, going from 5,878

Welcome to our annual Real Data issue, which highlights the agents and offices that dominated property sales in 2018 in Chicagoland, as well as those making waves in the smaller tracts of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will

Cynthia Bednarz of d’aprile properties has been knocking on doors in the real estate business for about a decade. Now, as a candidate for alderman of the 27th Ward, she’s knocking as a candidate for elected office. “Volunteering and

A gorgeous grotto This property in Coconut Grove, Florida, is a water-themed paradise. The windows of the wine cellar, designed by artist Meredith Miller, look directly into the below-ground pool and bottle holders were built directly into stone walls.

Baird & Warner CEO urges honesty in soft North Shore market Baird & Warner president and CEO Steve Baird recently warned agents of the need to be honest with sellers in the North Shore suburbs about the softness of

  Millennials face fewer housing choices as seniors age in place More senior citizens around the U.S. are choosing to age in place rather than sell their homes and move to a retirement community, and those decisions could be

Only a week after speculation arose that Amazon was reconsidering its plans to build part of its second U.S. headquarters campus in New York City, the company released a statement Feb. 14 confirming it was pulling out of the

A new bill proposed by Illinois Rep. Mary Flowers, a South Side and southwest suburban Democrat, offers a sweeping blueprint for implementing rent control on a statewide level.  The bill, HB2192, calls for the immediate termination of the Rent Control

It’s not uncommon for couples to work together in real estate. But how do they find time to celebrate their relationships outside of their day-to-day work? High school sweethearts Josh and Magdalena Lybolt have been in business together for

Amid new leadership and a pending class-action lawsuit, big changes at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac appear to be close at hand. The question now for U.S. lawmakers and stakeholders in the mortgage industry is how to carry out

  Despite a relatively good year for the Chicago-area luxury home market, a decline in the fourth quarter might portend a slowdown in the market in the upcoming months. There was a 1.4 percent increase over the 2017 total

While homebuyers in the U.S. are generally married couples, data from the National Association of Realtors found that 18 percent of homebuyers in 2018 were single women. To drill down more into that demographic, SmartAsset took a look at

Only a few months ago, most economists, mortgage lenders and others who closely track the mortgage market assumed interest rates would continue rising through 2019, driving up the cost of home purchases. But several weeks into the new year,

For years, cities all over the U.S. have sought to promote development as a means to keep housing affordable. In an attempt to do this, cities often engage in “up-zoning”—reducing some zoning restrictions, often around popular transit stops in