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RE/MAX Northern Illinois Honors Residential Top 20 Agents, Teams

The RE/MAX Northern Illinois real estate network recently honored its associates whose 2010 residential sales achievements earned them spots in its year-end Residential Top 20 award

Maintaining List Price

LeapRE ranked the top 100 brokerages in their ability to break the trend – these are the top brokerages who, on average, sold homes for a price closest to the list price, despite having been on the market for

Are Real Estate Videos Reaching the Right Market?

Web-savvy consumers may not typically desire commercial videos for brands, products, etc. while browsing the web, but data from comScore demonstrates that 83 percent of all Americans watched an online video in May, racking up over 5.6 billion viewing

Wells Fargo Announces Altered Responsibilities, Leaves Reverse Mortgage Market

Wells Fargo & Co. has confirmed that it is leaving the reverse mortgages sector, but it will continue to act as a servicer up until the departure date of June 30, according to National Mortgage

RE/MAX Signature Closes One Thousand Transactions

RE/MAX Signature of Chicago becomes Chicago’s Number one RE/MAX office in transaction volume after their record breaking

HUD Focuses On Rental Housing Policy

The spring edition of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) quarterly publication, Evidence Matters, is available now available. The issue actively focuses on affordable rental housing policy and the role it will play as Americans debate

How Managing Brokers Can Build a Great Team

How can you make sure you’re hiring the cream of the crop? How can you assemble a team of top producers to put your brokerage at the top of its game? Look for agents with these 10 qualities:

Managing Brokers: Putting in Overtime

By Elizabeth SanFilippo A Real Estate Attorney as a Managing Broker When managing broker and real estate attorney Dan Macahon left RE/MAX a few months ago to start his own independent company, Lake Homes Unlimited, real estate agent Pat

U.S. Market Expected to See Forty Percent Increase in Hispanic Homebuyers

Nearly 40 percent of all first-time homebuyers in the US are expected to be Hispanic, with some of these potential homebuyers being “affluent Mexican nationals fleeing cartel violence,” said the Houston

According to Macroeconomist, Over Six Million New Properties Needed to Repair Industry

According to Housing Wire, what the industry really needs is 6.5 million new homes within the next five years in order “to clear the excess housing inventory” of about 2.5 million

MRED Enters Exclusive Agreement With CoreLogic

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) and CoreLogic announced on June 16 that the two companies entered into an exclusive agreement to participate in CoreLogic’s Partner InfoNet analytics program. MRED, a regional MLS representing 13 Realtor associations and nearly 40,000

Stein and Shipka, Developers of Walton on the Park, Face Battles Over Earnest Money

Luxury Gold Coast condominium project developers, Ronald Shipka Sr. and Richard Stein, recently handed over the reins of their Walton on the Park project (located at One West Walton Street) to Dart Container Corp., but they are not handing

One Superior Place Under New Management

Riverstone Residential Group has acquired management of One Superior Place, a high-rise property in the River North area of downtown

Foreclosure Filings Decreasing, But Inventory Still a Burden

Foreclosure filings, auctions and repossessions of 214,927 properties displays a 2 percent decrease from April, and a 33 percent drop from May 2010, according to

Housing Market Index Drops Three Points in June

June’s home builder index dropped to a nine-month low, with a monthly Housing Market Index (HMI) drop of three points, resulting in a 13, MarketWatch

MLS Provider FBS Adapts to Policy Changes of IDX Listings

Flex MLS by FBS will now make modifications in order to support MLS customers, in response to the “opt-in” IDX policy established at NAR’s Midyear Conferences in May. According to Agent Genius, FBS is the first major MLS provider

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