On Tuesday, August 4, Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty announced that it will join forces with Hunter’s Fairway Sotheby’s International Realty in acquiring two Barrington offices. Both having goals in meeting the Chicagoland area’s luxury real estate needs, the collaboration

The Hechinger Report recently released the data for the graduation rates for nearly every school district in the U.S. The data, which draws from the 2013 graduating class, broke down the numbers past the typical statewide average. We took

A mother-daughter real estate team in New Mexico recently listed not one, but two homes featured in the hit series, “Breaking Bad.” The more popular of the two was used as the residence of Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron

Technology has drastically improved the efficacy of searching for the right home. Prior to enlisting the services of an agent, buyers, who in all likelihood have a pre-established criterion for their ideal neighborhood and home, are scoping out concerns

Chicagoland joins nationwide trend of rising home prices Home prices, including distressed sales, increased by 3.3 percent year-over-year in June 2015 in the Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights area, according CoreLogic’s June 2015 Home Price Index (HPI). Excluding distressed sales, year-over-year prices

What suburban housing markets saw the most home sales in 2015’s first half? Naperville and Aurora were by far the top-selling suburbs in the Chicagoland housing market in the first half of 2015, according to exclusive numbers Chicago Agent received from

Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC today announced Craig Hogan as its vice president of luxury marketing. Hogan joins the Coldwell Banker brand with 20 years of real estate sales and marketing experience, most recently as director of the Coldwell

The House Financial Services Committee passed two bills to help ease TRID worries On Oct. 3, the new TILA-RESPA integrated disclosure (TRID) rule will come into affect, and the industry is struggling in preparation, despite the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

After years of noise pollution complaints, O’Hare Airport has a plan to ease some of the headaches On Friday, August 7, the Emmanuel Administration will propose a solution to deal with the late-night noise coming from O’Hare International Airport. For years,

Home sales are one thing, but where in Chicagoland’s suburbs is competition for housing most intense? Earlier this week, Chicago Agent reported that Naperville was the top-selling suburban housing market in June, leading the way in both the single-family and

Building in the Second City Making Significant Progress Residential construction spending in the Chicagoland area was up 64 percent year-over-year in June, and so far in 2015 is 39 percent ahead of where it was last year. Those encouraging stats came

Chicago-based Sandz Development Co., Inc. and @properties announced the start of sales for Webster Square Condominiums, a new luxury development in Lincoln Park. An on-site sales center featuring kitchen and bath vignettes, a selections area and touchscreen floor plan

Several Chicago neighborhoods saw big sales increases in June Home sales in the city of Chicago rose 9.3 percent year-over-year in June, and several of the city’s neighborhoods, according to exclusive numbers from Redfin, were especially responsible for that increase.

Institutional investors leaving real estate, but Americans still confident housing is a good investment In the immediate wake of the economic downturn, the housing market took a plunge that was devastating for homeowners but ideal for the opportunistic. In the years

Contract signings declined for the first time in 2015, according to new research Pending home sales declined 1.8 percent from May to June, according to new analysis from the National Association of Realtors. Although the Pending Home Sales Index,

Bigger than Los Angeles and New York City combined, a 798-square-mile ranch in Texas is on the market for $725 million. The Waggoner, named after the family who owned the property since 1845, when Texas became the 28th state,