The Home Front

Despite battling the virus plague, protests, riots and social unrest, Chicago’s North Side real estate market surprisingly is showing...

While protesters were marching and looters were smashing windows, stealing and burning buildings, wheels of progress were quietly turning...

The Mortgageland interest-rate roller coaster has plummeted to a historic record low of 3.15% nationwide—the lowest ever recorded by the...

Buying a home during the COVID-19 crisis may not be a life or death situation, but the market currently is coming out of a coma. “There...

Apparently, a few unscrupulous Chicago-area landlords are practicing “rent gouging” in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, apartment...

“Never waste a good crisis,” said former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. In the spirit of that quote, after the coronavirus is brought under...

Back in the day, long before the virus plagued Chicago’s once-thriving real estate market, the closing of property sales transactions...

While real estate is still listed as an “essential service”—just like groceries and liquor stores—the world-wide coronavirus epidemic...

The end of the Bull Market and stock-market declines sparked by the coronavirus economy are driving more and more serious buyers into...

While Chicagoans and most Americans continue to wrestle with the widespread shutdowns from the coronavirus and a broad pullback in...

Reeling from years of real estate tax increases “Ma and Pa” owners of small apartment properties are wondering what hikes are on the...

Chicago’s North Side existing-home market posted a “complete flip” in four lakefront neighborhoods in January as a “new trend appears to...

Home-loan hunters in Chicago and across the nation now are flocking to some of the best rate deals in history as interest charges...

Bargain-rate mortgages could be the spark that ignites Chicago’s 2020 housing market. On January 23rd, benchmark 30-year-fixed home-loan...

The inevitability of higher apartment rents isn’t the only threat on the horizon in 2020 for Chicago’s renters. In 2019, rents have...

Chicago’s existing home market in four North Side lakefront neighborhoods suddenly awoke in December after a year-long snooze. Baird &...