Category: Real Estate

March launched the home-buying season with post-recession records for increasing home sales and prices and decreasing inventory, according to this month’s RE/MAX National Housing Report that surveys 53 metro areas. Last month, home sales were 6.6% higher than the nine-year-old report’s previous March record, set in 2016. Thirty-eight of the...

Chicago-area home sales soared in March, and home values continued to advance as the residential real estate market closed the first quarter of 2017 on an extremely positive note, RE/MAX reports. March home sales in the seven-county metropolitan area were 14.8 percent higher than during March 2016, with 9,556 units...

ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s largest fused property database, today released its Q1 and March 2017 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows first quarter foreclosure activity was below pre-recession levels nationwide and in 102 out of 216 metropolitan statistical areas (47 percent) analyzed in the report. Nationwide the...

Even though a mortgage payment is more affordable than a rent payment on a monthly basisi, renters say they can’t buy a home due to the pricey down payment, according to the first Zillow® Housing Aspirations Report™ (ZHAR)ii. Almost 70 percent of renters surveyed cite the down payment as a...

Ranch-style homes, large backyards and updated kitchens top shoppers’ wish lists this spring, according to realtor.com®‘s home buyer survey. More than half of home seekers are looking for a three-bedroom home, while 75 percent of shoppers are considering a two-bathroom home. Realtor.com® is a leading online real estate destination operated...