New Prices, New Seller, Same Great Location! Ideally situated at the southeast corner of Chicago’s Lake View neighborhood, just north of Lincoln Park, is 2930 North Sheridan Road. The building features one and two bedroom, tastefully remodeled residences along

The precipitous decline of mortgage interest rates has been one of the major stories in real estate in 2012, but recent actions by the Federal Reserve has some thinking that rates could fall even further in

The Chicago Association of Realtors (CAR) Board of Directors approved an additional $15,000 contribution to the Realtors Relief Foundation in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. This brings the association’s total contribution up to

By Peter Ricci NAR’s 2012 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers taught us many things, but perhaps the most notable was the continuing domination of the Internet in the home searching process. Ninety percent of homebuyers, we found, now use

In the last few years, there have been some big changes in Cuba. Fidel Castro is no longer in power, having passed the baton to his young brother Raul; citizens are allowed to purchase cell phones; and now, a

In its latest American Dream Survey, real estate website Trulia found that 93 percent of millennials who rent plan to purchase a home some day, and 72 percent of the entire demographic consider homeownership to be part of their American

The holiday season is often a strange one for real estate agents, many of whom are winding down their business for the year, closing up any loose ends from the summer homebuying season, or, for the more prescient among

Virginia “Ginger” Downs, the CEO of the Chicago Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) will be inducted into the National Association of Realtors’ Realtor Political Action Committee Hall of Fame for her lifelong investment of $25,000 in RPAC, the Realtors Political Action

The Orland Park branch of Keller Williams Preferred Realty is proud to announce the addition of Timothy Branigan. He will be joining the team as an independent contracted

By Peter Ricci According to Nielsen, the majority of cell phone users now utilize smartphones, and Pew Research has found that 22 percent of adults use tablets. Clearly, as consumers, we’re becoming more and more mobile, and we’re spontaneously crafting

A new report from the Wall Street Journal is validating what many have been suspecting for months – President Obama is planning on replacing Acting Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Ed DeMarco by early next year, and probably with someone

The for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) market is one of untapped potential, like an oil reserve that real estate agents haven’t quite reached yet. After all, these are consumers who are looking to sell their homes, but are not seeking the expertise

By Natalie Terchek Andrew Bowyer and Middlefork Development, partners with Ballis Group and Coldwell Banker Previews International, made a donation to the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana (RMHC) at an open house  on December 4

Despite the continued economic uncertainty involving the fiscal cliff, consumers are increasingly confident about the U.S. housing market, as Fannie Found in its National Housing Survey for

An 11-unit condo building in Lincoln Park is will soon be no more – the owners of the condos at 1909 N. Orchard St., put the structure up for sale last week, and the buyer, a developer, plans to

Any entrepreneur, real estate agents included, know that the trick about technology is to either get there first or get there