4 Tips to Determine How Much Mortgage You Can Afford
By: G. M. Filisko What's a rule of thumb to determine how much mortgage you can afford? There's no one rule, but these four tips will tell you. Home ownership should…
A Kitchen Remodel Worksheet to Help You Cut Costs
By: Amy Howell Hirt Find out how much it costs to remodel a kitchen, item by item, so you never spend more than you need to. How much is that kitchen remodel going to cost you?…
What Should Be in an Emergency Survival Kit?
By: Wendy ParisPreparing and keeping a fully stocked home emergency preparedness kit could be the key to your family's safety if disaster strikes. You can’t prevent disasters, but you can take…
Home Buying and Selling During the Pandemic: What You Need to Know
By: Leanne PottsTechnology and good-old-fashioned creativity are helping agents, buyers, and sellers abide by COVID-19 health and safety practices while getting deals done. Some buyers are touring houses virtually. Others visit…
8 Things Home Inspectors Can’t Tell You
Home inspections have its limitations. Better understand what you can and cannot expect from inspections when you buy a home.
How to Disinfect Your Home in the Time of Coronavirus
Make sure your home is free from coronavirus during home showings. What cleaners to use? Where needs more cleaning? All you need to know
Coronavirus Mortgage Relief: What You Need To Know
Coronavirus mortgage relief measures are being put in place to ensure homeowners have options if they’re unable to make payments. What you need to know.
How to Stage Your Home to Sell – a Room by Room Guide
Staging your home can make it much more competitive when you sell. Follow our complete room by room guide to improve your listing and sell faster!
10 Steps to Declutter – the Ultimate Checklist to a Cleaner Life
Decluttering is the most important step when preparing to sell your home. Follow these 10 simple steps. It will greatly enhance your home's appeal.
How to avoid bad realtors? 4 things to look out
An insider's take - Is your realtor contributing or detracting from your real estate buy or sale? How to tell the good ones from the bad?
Houzz: 10 Design Trends Coming to a Home Near You
What's trending now? We asked several designers and home builders what's in. Here are 10 design trends that are on the rise.
12 Fall Maintenance Tasks to Do Now
We've gathered 12 easy home maintenance tasks for this fall. Follow them one by one to prepare for a comfortable and cozy winter!
How is Chicago’s Real Estate Market in Aug 2019?
It's a hot-and-cold picture. Illinois, as well as the Chicago Metro Area, home sales dipped more than 6% in August 2019. On the other hand, median price saw bigger increase…
10 painful realities about the foreclosure process
Many buyers believe that the path buying a great home is purchasing a foreclosure. But often, buyers are misinformed about the realities of the process.
Landlords: How to Deal with Service and Emotional Support Animals
Landlords usually don’t want to have pets in their rental properties. But it’s getting more frequent that tenants bring service animals or emotional support animals. Should you accept it? Deny…
If There is a Recession, Will the Housing Market Collapse?…
"Recession" seems to be on many people's minds these days. The memory of the 2008 market collapse is still fresh. The question we want to ask is: Will the housing…
Chicago Real Estate Market July 2019 Performance: slightly strengthening
Illinois homebuyers lifted the real estate market back into positive territory in July. Both sales price and quantity increased compared to the same time in 2019. Summer selling season appears…
15 Things to Never, EVER Do to Your House
What may seem like a good idea, often isn’t. Here are 15 common mistakes new homeowners often make that prove it. 1. Get Rid of Your Only Tub If resale…
Chicago Chinatown + Bridgeport real estate market July 2019
How has the Chinatown & Bridgeport real estate market doing for the first half of 2019? One word: Hot. Two words: Going Strong. Three Words: Time to Sell! We pulled…
How is the Chicago real estate market doing in the first half of 2019?
Real Estate Market Stats June 2019 Chicago/Illinois Source: illinoisrealtors.org
Illinois housing market is experiencing a "cooler“ summer, with lower sales amount and relatively flat housing prices.