7/9/14
I’ve take many photographs while shooting 1,000s of videos and I’ve often been asked by real estate agents to do the photography for the...
7/3/14
RealtyTrac just released its Q2 2014 Residential Property Rental Report, which ranks the best markets for buying residential rental properties along with the best...
6/26/14
According to RealtyTrac, the Chicago metro area had 9,975 “zombie foreclosures” in Q2 2014, ranking it third in the nation. The following is from...
6/25/14
Each year Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies publishes a much-anticipated and widely-read report on The State of the Nation’s Housing. The 2013...
6/24/14
The answer to the headline question depends on which data source you’re looking at. According to the Illinois Association of Realtors (IAR), the volume...
6/18/14
Chicago Real Estate Daily has a report that spotlights the five community areas that had the shortest average market times for single-family homes and...
6/10/14
According to a just-released RealtyTrac report, Illinois had the fourth highest rate of foreclosure activity in the nation. Per RealtyTrac: Illinois foreclosure activity decreased...
6/9/14
For those among you who have an affinity for watching grass grow and paint peel, we offer a video view of the Tilt at...
6/4/14
CoreLogic‘s April Home Price Index reflects prices that have continued to rise, and CoreLogic is projecting that prices will rise nationally 6.3 percent (+/-...
6/2/14
If all you knew about Chicago’s demographic and racial mix is what you saw at your local street fair, would you have an accurate...
5/30/14
The following market update arrived via a news release from RE/MAX Northern Illinois: The Chicago-area luxury home market continued to gain ground over the...
5/29/14
According to RealtyTrac data, the median sales price of U.S. residential properties — including both distressed and non-distressed sales — was $172,000 in April,...
5/15/14
According to data just released by RealtyTrac, Illinois had the sixth-highest rate of foreclosure filings in the nation, with one in every 706 Illinois...
5/7/14
CoreLogic released its March Home Price Index (HPI) report yesterday: In Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights, home prices, including distressed sales, increased by 11.3 percent in March...
4/24/14
Ukrainian Village is probably the most commonly misspelled neighborhood name in Chicago. Is that changing as a result of the saturation coverage of recent...
4/17/14
RealtyTrac today released its U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report for the first quarter of 2014. Thirty percent of all Illinois homes with a...
4/11/14
American Realty’s Dan Dantuma had 135 repetitive ads on Craigslist as of mid-morning yesterday. More than 80% of them were for a single apartment,...
4/10/14
With just over 2,500 ads, State Street Properties isn’t Craigslist’s most prolific apartment ad spammer, but it ranks among the worst of them and...
4/9/14
We’ve written repeatedly about iMove Chicago, a rental service that advertises frequently on Craigslist for new leasing agents and brokers. We had saved records...
4/7/14
We haven’t written about Andy Trejo before, but he’s been on our radar for well over a year, and his company names have been...