The National Association of Realtors has responded to a request from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the U.S. Department of the Treasury for input on recommendations for selling real estate

Last month, the @properties Friends and Neighbors Community Fund (FNCF) held its second annual Chicago Revealed fundraiser. The proceeds went to local non-profit organizations Deborah’s Place and Barrel of

RentJuice, the leading provider of rental relationship management for real estate brokerages and property managers, recently announced the launch of the RentJuice Directory, a free online directory specifically for Chicago’s rental

With the launch of Coldwell Banker’s First-Time Home Buyers Resource Center, agents can help clients find homes easier. The Resource Center includes videos, articles, and other tools to guide new buyers through the real estate search

August home sales defied seasonal trends and rose 18 percent from last year, according to new data from RE/MAX. Historically, June is the highest-selling summer month, but in 2011, both July and August exceeded June’s sales

Prudential Rubloff Properties has maintained a formidable presence in Chicagoland real estate, announcing today that the firm has retained a strong Lake County market share this year to date. BrokerMetrics, an analytical software tool from Terradatum, places Prudential Rubloff

Danger and death played big in This Week In Real Estate, as we saw a flurry of activity on these stories: an in-depth study on the dangers faced by Realtors; the possible demise of the mortgage interest tax deduction;

The seemingly never-ending debate on housing policy continued on Wednesday in Washington, as economists and policy analysts from a myriad of organizations testified before a Senate subcommittee on what to do about housing, particularly the 11 million borrowers who

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage announced today the forthcoming Coldwell Banker Winnetka, a merger of their Winnetka North and Winnetka South offices. The new office, located at 568 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, will open late

KeepSum, a website that attempts to bring the same bright, zany style of the gloriously successful Groupon to real estate, has just formally launched, beckoning Realtors to “save some, keep sum.” Functioning more on a business-to-business basis than business-to-consumer,

Help is on the way for unemployed and underemployed homeowners in Chicago from the “Hardest Hit” fund, a federally-funded program that will provide housing aid to some of the most disadvantaged homeowners in the area. Using a pool of

Corcoran Consulting and Coaching announced that 43 of its clients were listed in the Thousand Top Real Estate Professionals national awards, sponsored by the Wall Street Journal and REAL Trends. The 43 clients, categorized as individual sales professionals or

Early reports on Augusts’ Year Over Year (YOY) forecast have lead to competing forecasts between financial and economic analysts. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) estimated that home sales this July ran at a SAAR of 4.67 million, a

Real Trends’ Top 1000 Sales Professionals List for 2011 is out. Cited as some of the most productive real estate professionals in the country are agents and brokers from Midwest Real Estate Data

In 1913, a caption from an edition of The Craftsman described a bedroom in the Mighell House as, “finished in blue, gray and dull silver; window frames with wide views of the river and valley for miles around.” The

Pop star Rihanna is a good girl gone bad – at least when Beverly Hills real estate is concerned. The chart-topping singer is suing Prudential California Realty, the company that sold her a 10,000-square-foot mansion for $6.9 million in