More than 70 percent of metro areas in the U.S. are now a proud part of the NAHB’s Improving Markets Index, according to the association’s latest tally. A total of 255 metropolitan areas were featured in the July Improving

Real estate brokerages face plenty of challenges, but according to a new survey, the increasing age of real estate agents comes out on top. It was just two months ago that the National Association of Realtors reported that only

Kale Realty, which specializes in both residential and commercial sales, leasing and property management, announced that it has hired its 200th agent. In addition, this is the company’s 62nd year serving Chicago. The company is also known as the

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicagoland’s multiple listing service (MLS), has announced that its CEO, Russ Bergeron, will be featured as a panel member at the 2013 Inman Real Estate Connect Conference in San Francisco. MRED has also been

Fannie Mae’s National Housing Survey for June offered further evidence of the housing recovery, with more homebuyers looking to enter the marketplace. According to Fannie Mae’s June 2013 National Housing Survey, mortgage rates and housing prices are perceived to

Michael Golden and Thaddeus Wong, co-founders of Chicago real estate firm @properties, were named winners of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2013 Award in the Midwest, in the Services category. The awards were presented at a

Chicago’s MRED MLS members now have access to more robust listings data with Move’s FIND application. Move’s FIND Application, a tool that allows MLSs to provide members with quick and easy access to Multiple Listing Services data, is now

While most people were watching the fireworks on the Fourth of July, real estate broker Gary Dailey was stopping a robbery. Dailey was walking near Oak Street Beach to meet up with his girlfriend, when he came across a large

Redfin’s Real-Time Fastest Markets Report offers an interesting glimpse at what housing markets are seeing the most activity. Is Chicago among them? Housing demand lessened somewhat nationwide in May, according to the latest Real-Time Fastest Markets Report from Redfin,

Foreign homebuyers made up nearly $70 billion in sales in 2012-2013, and they revealed distinctive patterns during that time frame that agents should know. We reported earlier this week that, though constrained by weak international economics and exchange rates,

After finally bottoming, asking prices in Chicagoland are on a seriously promising trajectory, according to the latest Trulia Price Monitor. Asking prices in Chicagoland bounced back in a major way in June, increasing 8.4 percent year-over-year and 5.4 percent

Another month, another rock-solid collection of data on the residential construction industry from the Census Bureau. May was another solid month for the construction industry, with spending on new projects increasing by 5.4 percent year-over-year, according to the latest

A seven-bedroom French provincial home on Sheridan Road  in Winnetka sold for $12.7 million last month, the highest-priced home sale in Chicago so far this year. The 15,000-square-foot lakefront home was built in 2010, and has 137 feet of

May was yet another month of double-digit home price increases, according to the latest Home Price Index from CoreLogic. Home prices in the CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI) increased 12.2 percent year-over-year in May, the largest such increase since

It’s been a wild ride for the U.S. mortgage marketplace in recent years, but things are on the mend according to the latest report from LPS. To say the least, the post-housing boom marketplace has been an eventful one