Baird & Warner is reaching out to buyers and sellers through unique forms of advertising. Their campaign has been seen on CTA buses, billboards, online and print outlets across the Chicagoland area. And on Sept. 17, they launched their newest way

The housing market has undergone yet another pronounced change in the last couple months, bringing about a whole new set of trends to follow. It was early 2013, and it finally seemed, after a prolonged slumber, that housing was

August was a very solid month for home sales in Chicagoland, with both the city and suburban markets putting up great numbers. Home sales in the nine-county Chicagoland area rose 24.3 percent year-over-year in August, totaling 11,771 sales according

August was a solid month for single-family home construction, according to the latest analysis by the U.S. Census Bureau. Single-family housing starts were at a six-month high in August according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau, rising

It’s become a common trope in housing circles to bemoan the lack of first-time homebuyers in today’s housing market, but are they really lacking? First-time homebuyers are an essential component to a strong, sustainable housing market. Not only do

Housing inventory seems to have finally turned the corner nationally, but what of here in Chicago? The nation’s inventory of housing has been a major topic of conversation among analysts and real estate professionals alike this year, but if

Homes in 2013 have sold better than at any time since 2008, and we’ve dug up three promising trends for those home sales. Home sales have been putting up some encouraging numbers in 2013. Though rising mortgage have taken

Baird & Warner has surpassed $3.5 billion in sales as of July 2013, a level of business the residential brokerage hasn’t seen since 2007. Baird & Warner also announced that the company has closed nearly 14,000 transactions and taken

Everyone has been holding their breath on when the higher mortgage rates will impact home sales; when exactly will that happen, though? When mortgage rates began their dramatic rise back in May, it was more a matter of “when”

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) has developed a Military Relocation Professional certification, which will help Realtors assist military service professionals with housing solutions that meet their needs, and allow them to take full advantage of their military benefits.

For the past three years, Coldwell Banker has devoted its September to promoting and acting on behalf of the Coldwell Banker Charitable Foundation. Throughout the month agents, employees and their respective communities are encouraged to benefit the foundation. Common

Residents of Rogers Park protested outside the Shambhala Meditation Center on Sunday to express their disappointment with a plan to build a parking garage on the land, according to DNAinfo Chicago. Jennifer Pritzker, CEO of private wealth management firm Tawani Enterprises, purchased

Foreclosure activity in the Windy City remains high, but it’s fallen by a dramatic amount from 2012. Foreclosure activity in the Chicagoland area was down a whopping 58 percent year-over-year in August according to the U.S. Foreclosure Market Report

Home seller incentives became quite common during the down years, but are they still common in 2013? During the months following the housing downturn in 2008, homebuyers found themselves in a interesting position – they were in charge. With

Though Chicagoland’s housing market has made notable strides in the last couple of years, the problem of negative equity lingers on. Though the Chicagoland housing market has made quite a bit of progress in the last year,  nearly a

With more than two decades of industry experience, broker Michael Parent will serve as the 2014 president of the Mainstreet Organization of Realtors (MORe), according to a recent press release. Parent, who is a broker with Coldwell Banker and is Burnet