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

Housing experts were none too kind to President Obama after his non-specific mention of housing in a major jobs speech last week, but it appears that his jobs bill, the more heavily promoted policy of the speech, does contain aid

Freddie Mac has finalized requirements on a new “Standard Modification,” a loan modification program for delinquent homeowners who did not meet requirements for the government’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP). Officially launching in January, the new program will begin

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced an award of almost $100 million to the promotion of employment, self-sufficiency, and independent living for HUD-dependent families and

Chicago’s high-end suburban real estate market appears to be on the rebound from earlier dips in the market.  Statistics from Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) point towards a market that is characteristically consistent, signifying that now may be the

The Market Composite Index, a study of mortgage loan application volume that is compiled by the Mortgage Bankers Association, rose 6.3 percent last week, bouncing back from a disappointing 4.9 percent decline the week before. Despite historically-low interest rates, mortgage

September is the National Association of Realtor’s “Realtor Safety Month,” and to coincide with the month, real estate website AgentGenius conducted surveys and interviews to assess Realtor safety in 2011. The site’s findings were both frightening and educational. Andrew