Asking prices continued to show improvement in the Trulia Price Monitor, a leading indictor of market activity that studies the asking prices of new property listings on the real estate

Century 21 Affiliated Chicago announced its merger with Century 21 Kmiecik Realtors located in the Southwest Section of Chicago. The company will operate under the name Century 21 Affiliated

By Peter Ricci The findings of the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) 2012 NAR Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers on the home search process was perhaps the most encouraging part of the entire study, as it found that though

By Peter Ricci In a free webinar open to the public, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) assessed the politics and economics surrounding the housing market following the reelection of President Obama. Featuring Jerry Howard, the association’s CEO, Jim Tobin,

By Peter Ricci Home prices rose 6.3 percent year-over-year in October according to the latest Home Price Index from CoreLogic, which is the biggest yearly increase since June 2006 and the eighth consecutive month of yearly increases. This is the

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By Peter Ricci The fiscal cliff, and its implications for the U.S. economy, may be receiving all the attention from the media, but the National Association of Realtors (NAR) is doing its darnedest to ensure that another, equally potent

By Peter Ricci Construction spending, on the strength of the residential construction market, rose 1.4 percent from September to October and 9.6 percent from October 2011, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau. It was another

By Peter Ricci News flash – Twitter is one widely-used program. With an estimated 400 million monthly users, the site is among the most popular forms of social media available today, and it makes all the sense in the

By Kerri Ann Panchuk U.S. home prices rose 3.6 percent in the third quarter when compared to year ago levels, according to the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. Prices studied from the national composite index also rose

While data shows the housing market is incrementally improving, interestingly, the number of new offices that opened in the Chicagoland area declined from 2011 to

For its second annual GR Palooza, Guaranteed Rate set up a step-and-repeat and filled the Park West with a great crowd of agents and lenders, who danced and sang along with the band Sister Hazel, who performed in the

By Peter Ricci Falling housing prices during the housing downturn were, for prospective homebuyers and investors, a pretty smashing development. Housing affordability soared, and for those in the position to purchase a residence, deals could be had at nearly

By Natalie Terchek The National Association of Realtors (NAR) received a gold Best in Biz award for its forward-looking business practices. The independent business awards program honors companies and executives for their business successes. It is judged by industry

By Peter Ricci For the last two weeks, we’ve taken a detailed look at the homebuyers side of the National Association of Realtors’ 2012 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, analyzing demographics, the home search process, what kinds of

By Peter Ricci With few exceptions, home prices have been on the rise through most of 2012, and in noticeable ways – the most recent Case-Shiller Home Prices Indices, which Standard & Poor’s released on Tuesday, reported that home