There's encouraging news out of Chicago's housing market. A new report from the Illinois Association of Realtors says home sales are going up in the C...
Crain's Chicago Business | Posted 10.23.2009 | Chicago
Home sales in the city of Chicago posted a monthly year-over-year increase for the first time in more than three years, while sales throughout the Chi...
Chicago Tribune | Bob Goldsborough | Posted 10.18.2009 | Chicago
The "Punky QB known as McMahon" has left the Chicago area....
Crain's Chicago Business | Thomas A. Corfman | Posted 10.05.2009 | Chicago
The suburban office vacancy rate climbed for the ninth straight quarter, to 20.1% in the third quarter, the highest level since the early 1990s, as bu...
Crain's Chicago Business | Thomas A. Corfman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Chicago
Loews Hotels has walked away from an agreement to build a high-end hotel as part of the Block 37 development, despite getting the site for $1, dealing...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.11.2009 | Chicago
Yearning to get closer to President Obama? A rare opportunity just opened up. The home next door to Barack and Michelle Obama in Kenwood's mansion di...
NBC Chicago | ANDREW GREINER | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago
Billionaire investor Warren Buffet got a piece of Chicago this morning. Buffet's company, Berkshire Hathaway, today acquired Koenig & Strey Real Estat...
Crain's Chicago Business | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago
Chicago-area home sales inched up in July compared with July 2008, the first year-over-year increase in more than three years, according to the Illino...
Chicago Sun-Times | Francine Knowles | Posted 09.20.2009 | Chicago
More than 30 percent of single-family homes in the Chicago metropolitan area had mortgages that were greater than the value of the home at the end of ...
Deal Estate | Dennis Rodkin | Posted 09.11.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago native Dwyane Wade, a member of the NBA's Miami Heat and the gold medal-winning 2008 U.S. Olympic basketball team, has bought a four-story...
Chicago Tribune | Lisa Black | Posted 08.27.2009 | Chicago
Real estate agents say they have never seen prices drop so precipitously when dealing with opulent, often empty high-end homes along the North Shore t...
Decider | David Wolinsky | Posted 08.22.2009 | Chicago
Back in May, we told you about items allegedly belonging to R. Kelly suddenly cropping up for sale on Craigslist. The ad was tersely worded, but it wa...
Crain's Chicago Business | Eddie Baeb | Posted 07.30.2009 | Chicago
Ian Schrager, the hip hotelier and onetime impresario of New York nightclub Studio 54, is in talks to buy a pair of faded Chicago landmarks, the Ambas...
Crain's Chicago Business | Thomas A. Corfman | Posted 07.30.2009 | Chicago
The downtown office vacancy rate continued to climb in the second quarter, reaching 11.9%, the highest level in two years....
AP | Posted 06.26.2009 | Chicago
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. - A suburban Chicago home made famous in 1986 movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is up for sale for $2.3 million. The 5,300-square-...
Chicago Real Estate Daily | Thomas A. Corfman | Posted 04.09.2009 | Chicago
A weekend auction of 45 units in the Vetro condominium project in the South Loop resulted in sales of more than $12 million, at sharply discounted pri...
Crain's Chicago Business | Eddie Baeb | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago
Tribune Co. has scrapped plans to put the Tribune Tower up for sale because of cratering real estate prices and the company's late-year bankruptcy pro...
Crain's Chicago Business | Alby Gallun | Posted 03.27.2009 | Chicago
Single-family home prices in the Chicago area fell 14.3% last year, but homeowners here fared better than those in many other big cities. The S&P/Cas...
Chicago Sun-Times | Mark J. Konkol | Posted 02.21.2009 | Chicago
Thanks to the real estate market crash, your house is probably being taxed at a higher level than it's worth. Cook County Assessor James Houlihan say...
Crain's Chicago Business | Alby Gallun | Posted 02.05.2009 | Chicago
The downtown Chicago condo market is bad all over, but it's worse in the neighborhood that was hottest during the building boom: the South Loop. Buil...
Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos, Robert Becker and Todd Lighty | Posted 01.31.2009 | Chicago
Neighborhoods that recently bustled with teardowns and new construction are now filled with many such unsold homes, testament to a collapsed housing b...
Zillow | Posted 12.25.2008 | Chicago
Charming 2b condo in completely renovated landmark mansion unit overlooks historic drexel blvd. And features 10' ceilings cherry granite & ss kitchen,...
Chicago Tribune | Mary Ellen Podmolik | Posted 12.25.2008 | Chicago
Existing home sales continue in the Chicago metro area fell 17.7 percent from a year ago to 5,397 sales in October properties -- while the median pric...
Chicago Sun-Times | Francine Knowles | Posted 12.18.2008 | Chicago
Home sales in Chicago fell 23 percent and the median price fell 4.5 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, the Illinois Association of Real...
Zillow | Posted 12.13.2008 | Chicago
Gorgeous sun-filled top floor condo with awesome finishes! 2 year old gut rehab with cherry hardwood floors throughout. 1.5 baths, vaulted ceiling, cr...
Chicago Public Radio | Tony Arnold | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago