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Written By: Carolyn Surh on August 26, 2010 No Comment
Considering property in Hong Kong? Tread carefully

Hong Kong has been experiencing some tumultuous times of its own: home prices have increased 13 percent this year on top of a 30 percent jump in 2009.

Written By: Anjana Sundaram on August 26, 2010 No Comment
Health care REIT Ventas positioned for long-term growth

Ventas Inc.’s recent acquisition of Lillibridge Healthcare Services bodes well for the company’s future.

Written By: Charlie Mead on June 4, 2010 No Comment
Redwood ready to pounce on dubious market

As “mortgage-backed security” became a dirty word, security underwriters backed off the playing field. But toward the end of April, California-based Redwood Trust Inc. became the first to tag back in.

Written By: Jacquelyn Ryan on March 12, 2010 No Comment
Seven mistakes to avoid when buying your first home

Photo source: City of Austin

With the first-time homebuyer’s tax credit set to expire in April and home prices at generational lows, people–especially young people–are able to buy their first homes a lot sooner than many expected.

Written By: Jacquelyn Ryan on February 25, 2010 No Comment
A cloudy week in real estate

Some gloomy numbers loomed over the real estate market this week when national home sales and prices dropped, while mortgage rates creeped up.

“Demand to buy homes is really weak,” said Patrick Newport, economist at IHS Global Insight.

Written By: Eleanor Goldberg on January 30, 2010 No Comment
Top 10 real estate predictions in 2010

Four of the city’s real estate all-stars—an appraiser, investor, academic  and analyst—spent a little over two hours bemoaning the industry’s bleak 2010 fate at Thursday’s Chicago Association of Realtors Forecast. Then, they boiled their complicated, chart-heavy predictions into a bookmark-sized Letterman-esque top 10 list.

Written By: meganmollmann on July 30, 2009 No Comment
Housing is still hemorrhaging, Chicago’s foreclosure rate jumps 30 percent in first half

BY MEGAN MOLLMANN – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Although there was good news this week that housing prices are on the rebound, the aftershocks of the housing bubble are still being felt.

Chicago’s foreclosure rate shot up 30.3 percent in the first half of 2009 compared with January through June of 2008, according to a [...]

Written By: meganmollmann on July 15, 2009 No Comment
No McMansion in your future? Don’t feel so bad.

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BY MEGAN MOLLMANN – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

Every American dreams of one day owning a multimillion dollar estate, but following the nation’s housing crisis, even Chicago’s ritziest real estate properties are struggling to find a buyer.

A few have even [...]

Written By: KatieRogers on July 15, 2009 No Comment
Making Willis home: Sears Tower becomes Chicago’s newest renamed landmark Thursday

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BY KATIE ROGERS — MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

In the grand tradition of Chicago traditions, yet another of the city’s most famous landmarks will undergo an official name change Thursday.

The Sears Tower will become Willis Tower, and the switch will be made permanent July 16 in a ceremony that will officially recognize [...]

Written By: kateshellnutt on June 2, 2009 No Comment
Five moving season tips for everyone

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BY KATE SHELLNUTT – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE

You didn’t have to look at your calendar yesterday to realize it was June 1—the start of moving season, when leases expire and Chicagoans move in and out—you could have just looked out your window.

U-Haul vans and moving trucks, back [...]

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