Tag: News
Meet Jola Jablonska, a Chicago photographer
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 home.
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Chicago doesn’t rank among top rental markets for investors
RealtyTrac just released its Q2 2014 Residential Property Rental Report, which ranks the best markets for buying residential rental properties alo [...]
Chicago area ranks high in zombie foreclosures
According to RealtyTrac, the Chicago metro area had 9,975 "zombie foreclosures" in Q2 2014, ranking it third in the nation.
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The state of the nation’s housing
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 H [...]
Were Illinois home sales up or down in May?
The answer to the headline question depends on which data source you're looking at.
According to the Illinois Association of Realtors (IAR), th [...]
What’s really the fastest-selling neighborhood in Chicago?
Chicago Real Estate Daily has a report that spotlights the five community areas that had the shortest average market times for single-family homes [...]
Illinois ranks fourth nationally in foreclosure filings
According to a just-released RealtyTrac report, Illinois had the fourth highest rate of foreclosure activity in the nation. Per RealtyTrac:
Ill [...]
Watch the Tilt tilting at the Hancock
For those among you who have an affinity for watching grass grow and paint peel, we offer a video view of the Tilt at the Hancock tilting.
The [...]
Metro Chicago home prices continue to rise
CoreLogic's April Home Price Index reflects prices that have continued to rise, and CoreLogic is projecting that prices will rise nationally 6.3 p [...]
Do street fairs reflect Chicago’s racial divide?
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 picture of Chicag [...]
Million-dollar sales up 21% in Chicago through April
The following market update arrived via a news release from RE/MAX Northern Illinois:
The Chicago-area luxury home market continued to gain g [...]
RealtyTrac reports home price appreciation accelerated in April
According to RealtyTrac data, the median sales price of U.S. residential properties — including both distressed and non-distressed sales — was $1 [...]
Illinois foreclosure starts down, completions up year-over-year
According to data just released by RealtyTrac, Illinois had the sixth-highest rate of foreclosure filings in the nation, with one in every 706 Ill [...]
Chicago-area home prices increase
CoreLogic released its March Home Price Index (HPI) report yesterday:
In Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights, home prices, including distresse [...]
Is the crisis in the Ukraine improving Realtor spelling?
Ukrainian Village is probably the most commonly misspelled neighborhood name in Chicago. Is that changing as a result of the saturation coverage o [...]
Illinois ranks third in seriously underwater mortgages
RealtyTrac today released its U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report for the first quarter of 2014. Thirty percent of all Illinois homes with a mort [...]
Ask American Realty’s Dan Dantuma about his drug arrests
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, [...]
State Street Properties’ amazing Craigslist apartment spam
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 [...]
Where have all the iMove agents gone, short time passing?
We've written repeatedly about iMove Chicago, a rental service that advertises frequently on Craigslist for new leasing agents and brokers.
We [...]
Craigslist spammer of the day: Andy Trejo and iQrentals
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 on our Chicago rental [...]