Critics seek more changes to revamped lending forms
New mortgage lending forms designed to make it easier to shop for a mortgage have been unveiled by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but they won't take effect for another...
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Chicago home price index sees biggest increase in nearly 8 years
September home prices in the Chicago area posted their best year-over-year gain since November 2005 but continue to recover at a slower pace than other parts of the country, according...
Tougher to find affordable housing in Chicago area
Housing affordability in the Chicago area just took its biggest quarterly tumble since early 2005. During the year's third quarter, 63.7 percent of all new and existing homes sold in...
Tougher to find affordable housing in Chicago area
Housing affordability in the Chicago area just took its biggest quarterly tumble since early 2005. During the year's third quarter, 63.7 percent of all new and existing homes sold in...
Chicago-area home prices climb 14% from last October
Home sales and median prices in the Chicago area continued to beat year-ago comparisons in October, and the time it took to sell a home plunged as a result of...
Ryland aims to kick-start stalled subdivision
Ryland Homes is making a bet on Yorkville. The publicly held homebuilder has acquired about 170 lots in the unfinished Windett Ridge subdivision from Next Generation Development Inc., has started...
Ryland aims to kick-start stalled subdivision
Ryland Homes is making a bet on Yorkville. The publicly held homebuilder has acquired about 170 lots in the unfinished Windett Ridge subdivision from Next Generation Development Inc., has started...
Mortgage rates continue to climb; 30-year at 4.35%
Average fixed mortgage rates rose again this week in response to more reports that portrayed the economy as strengthening. Freddie Mac said the average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed...
Chicago-area foreclosure filings rise in October
Foreclosure filings in the Chicago area rose 30 percent in October from a month earlier but remained well below their year-ago level, RealtyTrac reported. In an area from Kenosha, Wis.,...
Real estate brokerages Prudential Rubloff, Koenig & Strey to combine
Two realty brokerages with deep roots in the Chicago area's housing market -- Koenig & Strey and Prudential Rubloff -- are merging and adopting a name with an international reputation,...