By Tom Butala As Nate Berkus, the interior designer who rose to fame through “The Oprah Show,” has moved to New York City; his former Gold Coast residence is now on the

The Illinois CCIM Chapter has announced its officers and board of directors for

As the Obama administration acts to wind down the role of mortgage behemoths Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the loss of the mortgage interest deduction may come as

The day before the National Association of Realtors starts its Home Ownership Matters Bus Tour at the Chicago Flower & Garden Show, Realtors from the Chicago area gathered at NAR headquarters Friday for a town hall-style meeting. The topic:

The National Association of Realtors’ month-long ‘Home Ownership Matters Bus Tour’ kicked off this weekend in Chicago outside of the Chicago Flower & Garden Show on Saturday, March

With the housing production credit crisis taking a severe toll on the nation’s small home building firms and threatening future job growth and the fragile economic recovery, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has called on Congress to

As reported by Henry Savage in The Washington Times, the tightening of mortgage qualification guidelines has resulted in a downturn of first-time

Realtor Magazine’s Good Neighbor Awards recognizes Realtors who devote themselves to volunteer service and is currently accepting applications. This is the 13th annual Good Neighbor Awards, and the National Association of Realtors is looking for outstanding Realtors who not

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded yesterday more than $2.3 million to nine fair housing organizations and non-profit agencies in Illinois to educate the public and combat housing and lending

Let this be a warning to Realtors everywhere that everyone is watching, and while we are all busy, not staying on top of of things can create big

RE/MAX Central in Roselle, Ill., has become one of the largest real estate offices in the northwest portion of the metropolitan Chicago real estate market, with a roster of 60 agents, as a result of a recent merger with

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury released yesterday the February edition of the Obama Administration’s Housing Scorecard. The latest housing figures show increased existing home sales as home affordability

As national home prices remain vulnerable, Case-Shiller Index Co-Founder and Yale Economist Robert Shiller speaks on the shaky housing

Keller Williams Realty reported recently at its national convention that it ended 2010 with 79,315 associates, 701 offices, and associate profit share up 7.2 percent, with its agents receiving $34.6 million dollars back. Since the inception of the profit

For Rent Media Solutions, a leading resource for searching apartments nationwide and a division of Dominion Enterprises, has announced that ForRent.com, the company’s anchor web site, has entered into an exclusive partnership with

Mortgage applications decreased 6.5 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending February 25, 2011. The results do not include an adjustment for the President’s Day