Data through December 2010, released today by Standard & Poor’s for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, show that the U.S. National Home Price Index declined by 3.9 percent during the fourth quarter

Buyer market conditions remain in most Illinois housing markets as low mortgage interest rates helped spur some early buying in January despite typical slower sales for the winter

Mortgage applications increased 13.2 percent from last week, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending February 18,

For the first time in years, the apartment rental market is beginning to experience signs of recovery as the U.S. economy slowly begins to

Chicago-based Fifield Companies and its joint-venture partner, Pacific Life Insurance Co. of Newport Beach, Calif., have announced that Alta at K Station in downtown Chicago has been awarded Gold LEED certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. The two-tower

Builder Associations of Indiana’s Lake and Porter counties will merge to form the Home Builders Association of Northwest Indiana, according to

Former Chicago Bulls superstar Scottie Pippen and his wife, Larsa, have listed their Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., home for $16M, according to

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is facing allegations of inaccurate reports of existing-home sales dating back to

The Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) has launched the CMP Wizard, an interactive online tool to help LEED Professionals understand their Credential Maintenance Program (CMP) requirementsand explore continuing education

Whether you’ve lived in your home for 25 years or just moved into a brand new house, you likely have a list of improvement projects you’re considering. Experts say that home renovations should not be done to enhance the

Once bypassed in the stream of investments being funneled into downtown cores and outlying suburbs, first-tier neighborhoods are emerging in the post-recession era as major magnets for urban growth, according to Urban Land Institute Chief Executive Officer Patrick L.

Not only are more people living in the suburbs now, there are more suburbs to live in, according to the U.S. Census Bureau data released last

You’ve probably heard the expression, “real estate agents never sleep.” For customers of Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), sleep was the least of their concerns when the Great Blizzard of 2011 hit the Chicagoland

The Chicagoland region ended 2010 nearly even with home sales in 2009 while statewide the Illinois housing market continued to ride out the turbulent economic times boosted by sales from the homebuyer tax

California thinks they can do it better; a California developer is buying a failed 47-acre residential development in Lake Bluff about seven months after taking over seven suburban projects started by now-defunct Kimball Hill

As data from the 2010 Census is released for states across the country, the figures released yesterday for Texas show that Houston remains smaller than Chicago, the third most populous city in the