Category: Real estate business
@Properties to add commercial brokerage arm
@Properties, the powerhouse broker that rode the housing wave to success over the last five years, is adding a commercial brokerage division.
The rea [...]
Firefighters on top, real estate agents on the bottom
Stop with the fantasies already. That's simply the result of a Harris Poll on the prestige of 23 different occupations.
Sixty-one percent of those po [...]
Bank files foreclosure lawsuit on west suburban condo project
This just in from Crain's: a 46-unit condo project in west suburban Hillside appears to be in trouble. Fifth Third Bank Chicago has filed a foreclosur [...]
Carnival of Real Estate: Kick your way through a down market
Who digs World Cup soccer? San Francisco Realtor and blogger Kevin Boer is clearly a fanatic - this week he lends a soccer theme to Carnival of Real E [...]
Carnival of Real Estate: how "house porn" sells homes
Real Estate Convergence hosts this week's Carnival of Real Estate. Read about house porn, shady tenants and why you should get a BlackBerry already. [...]
David Chase, formerly of Thrush, launches new real estate company
David Chase, formerly the president and CEO of The Thrush Companies, has struck out on his own with a new venture, Emerging Interests, Inc. The compa [...]
Slower market gives homeownership new meaning
In the current issue of New Homes Magazine, columnist Don DeBat ponders the intrinsic worth of owning a home - a value beyond its investment potential [...]
Daley's tax increases hit developers, too
Crain's is reporting that Mayor Daley has proposed charging developers of big projects 15 cents per square foot, part of his plan to close a projected [...]
Carnival of real estate: gold diggers, house flippers and the Cleavers
Agent Genius hosts the 63rd edition of the Carnival of Real Estate. Read about Craigslist gold diggers, house-flipping reality TV, what the Cleavers c [...]
An elusive Rogers Park open house
If you've ever shown up for an open house and found no one manning the door, you're not alone. In this video, YoChicago's Joe Zekas stops by Esoteri [...]
Shelter from the storm: a new home at The Lofts at 1800
We've heard many tales of people who ducked inside banks or stores to wait out the recent monsoon-like storms that whipped Chicago. At least one per [...]
Store for rent
A story in this month's New Homes looks at the retail situation in Lakeview, with a focus on how high rents are displacing Mom and Pops with nationa [...]
2nd-home choices abound within 2 hours of Chicago
In this month's New Homes Magazine, writer Joel Hoglund hits the road to check out vacation towns within two hours of the city, from Miller Beach, I [...]
Carnival of Real Estate gets geeky
This week's edition of Carnival of Real Estate is hosted by GeekEstate Blog. Alongside a picture of Jon Heder in Napoleon Dynamite, you'll find a rund [...]
U.S. Dept. of Commerce: new-home sales up slightly in July
The U.S. Department of Commerce reports today (pdf) that in July sales of new single-family homes rose 2.8 percent from last month to a seasonally adj [...]
How American Invsco sold 80 units in a night
We posted not long ago on American Invsco's one-night sales event for 200 North Dearborn, a high-rise conversion in the Loop, at which 80 units sold [...]
How to do your own (basic) home inspection
In the September issue of New Homes Magazine, which hits the stands later this week, home inspector Tom Corbett gives the lowdown on a few basic tes [...]
Kimball Hill looks for Love in tough market
Kimball Hill Inc. has named Kenneth Love, 53, the company's new CEO, according to a report by Crain's Chicago Business. Love, who has served as the vi [...]
Check out HomePerks.com
Incentives for homebuyers seem to abound in a slower market. An Oakbrook-based marketing company, HomePerks, LLC, has launched HomePerks.com, an onlin [...]
Many kinds of second-home buyers in Chicago
We've been talking a lot lately about second-home buyers and investors in Chicago. Slower appreciation and daunting market times lead some investors [...]