Zany listings are always popular online. The wilder, the better. Now, one wild house is going viral — and it’s right here at home in Logan Square.

Meanwhile, July’s home sale prices had their highest increase since November.

Chicago’s Bloomingdale Trail, or the 606 as it’s known colloquially, is set to expand over Ashland Avenue and underneath the Kennedy Expressway, to connect with Elston Avenue.

Chicago-based brokerage Fulton Grace Realty is expanding into Arizona with its first franchise partner.

This real-life Barbie dream house in Phoenix has everything a Barbie girl could want — life-size Ken not included.

The industry group issued its housing-market forecast along with its monthly Pending Home Sales Index for June. 

National Association of REALTORS® Chief Economist Lawrence Yun took issue with the increase, saying the central bank has created “a rare and very tight monetary policy condition.” 

Three new housing developments in are in the works at the former Cabrini-Green site, and the Chicago Housing Authority recently advanced plans for two of them.

The property even includes some original church features, like stained glass windows and an actual pipe organ.

Looking ahead, Chicago is poised as a future leader for adaptive reuse. Trailing New York and Los Angeles, Chicago boasts the third-largest number of apartments expected to be converted over the next years: 3,519 units.

In 2019, the city approved the master plan for Lincoln Yards. Four years later though, the site is still — mostly — empty. Now, Sterling Bay is seeking new investors.

Although detached home prices are holding steady, condo and other attached home values are on the up and up in Chicago’s suburbs, according to new data from the Mainstreet Organizations of REALTORS®.

The median existing-home price for all housing types in June rose to $410,200, 0.9% less than the all-time high of $413,800 reached in June 2022, the National Association of REALTORS® said. 

Low inventory and high demand are buoying builder sentiment in the face of several headwinds. 

The drop in the pace of new-home construction follows a significant surge the month before, according to government statistics. 

MRED will bring back the popular public records database Realist.