The Home Builders Association of Illinois (HBAI) announced Matt Dill, president of Beechen & Dill Homes, is the winner of its 2011 Builder of the Year

We’re two days away from the official unveiling of the National Association of Realtor’s (NAR) revised existing home sales, and like many journalists and analysts, we await what will likely be a release of data that will greatly influence

The Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs and Governor Pat Quinn will honor Jack Amberg, 26-year veteran of the U.S. Army and mortgage banker at Chicago Bancorp, as the December 2011 Illinois Veteran of the Month for his commitment and

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage announced that real estate veteran , Christina Auer, has joined Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Deerfield

The payroll tax cut drama continued earlier today when Speaker of the House John Boehner announced that the House of Representatives would not pass the two-month extension approved by the Senate over the weekend. The divergence in congressional behavior

Builder confidence continues to rise in the latest National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), a key measurement of builder sentiment and an influential projection on future housing activity. Derived from a monthly survey that the NAHB

Q: I am working with a buyer who wants to place an offer on a home in Oak Park, but I am not sure we will be able to sell his South Loop condo based on current sales in

After several difficult years for the industry, many in real estate are looking to 2012 with much anticipation. Will this year bring the return of the for-sale market, or will rentals reign? What features will emerge in home design,

In the first 11 months of 2011, compared to the same period in 2010, more than 58 percent of offices had less list-side transaction volume. About 20 percent of offices gained more than 50 percent of their previous list-side

Is the National Association of Realtors (NAR) finally revising its existing home sales data? What’s going on with appraisals? And how do student loans affect housing? Here’s a quick rundown of stats from this week’s news (Dec. 12 – Dec.

It’s the end of the year, and numerous analysts, media outlets and public figures are adding their two cents as to what 2012 will have in store not just for housing, but for the greater U.S. economy (and we’re

Karen V. Peterson, sales associate at the Coldwell Banker Gold Coast office, has been honored with the LuxeHome 25

After the boom years, Lehman, Fannie & Freddie, Dodd-Frank, and a whole host of other reforms and failures seemed to set the real estate markets straight, but now it appears fraud might be coming back. A new piece in the

Dream Town Realty added six Chicago Realtors to its team during October and November. The firm’s new members are Marnie Sax, Giorgio Pescatore, Justin Brown, Thomas Secson, Jeneane Ally and Justin Francek, all of whom are residential sales specialists

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against six former executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, including the GSEs former CEOs, alleging that they misled investors and the federal government over the risky nature

Earlier today, Fannie Mae released its Servicer Total Achievement and Rewards (STAR) Program results for the third quarter of 2011, which measures the performance of servicers with an emphasis on foreclosure prevention. According to a press release on the program,