St Louis Real Estate Broker Participates in Real Estate Summit
RealtyBizNews
by Allison Halliday - 21 February 2012 Rick Bauer, AARE, of Father Time® Auctions recently attended the National Auctioneers Association Real Estate Summit in Atlanta, to learn the most up-to-date techniques and sales strategies available in the real ...
St. Louis Real Estate Broker Auctioneer Participates in National Real Estate ...PR.com (press release)

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NAACP Chicago Far South Suburban Branch Gets Anti-Fraudulent Foreclosure Bill ...
eNews Park Forest
... beneficial interest in the real estate plus reasonable attorney's fees. The NAACP Chicago Far South Suburban branch commends State Representative Constance A. Howard for her prompt and bold action to address Illinois' illegal foreclosure epidemic ...

Facebook Profiles Found to Predict Job Performance
Wall Street Journal
By LESLIE KWOH A new study from Northern Illinois University, the University of Evansville and Auburn University suggests it can. In an experiment, three "raters"—comprising one university professor and two students—were presented with the Facebook ...

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Event builds on new ideas
Burlington Hawk Eye
About 50 vendors from Iowa, Illinois and Missouri participated in the annual Burlington Home School Saturday and Sunday. They included real-estate agents who could sell a lot for a dream home to contractors who could build it.

GlobeSt.com
New Big Box Wonder! Closes After Only Four Months - Daily News Article
GlobeSt.com
Let GlobeSt.com be your source for everything real estate. DEERFIELD, IL-It was one year behind schedule when it opened in mid-October, and now, after only four months, the new children's superstore Wonder! has already shut its doors.

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Why city pension funds want firm with Daley links out
Chicago Sun-Times
By TIM NOVAK Staff Reporters / tnovak@suntimes.com February 20, 2012 1:20AM I t's been six years since five Chicago government pension plans hired DV Urban Realty — a start-up investment firm founded by then-Mayor Richard M. Daley's nephew Robert G.

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Modesto Bee
Region's real estate slump has a bright side
Modesto Bee
That's the bright side of the region's continuing real estate slump. The county's median home sales price slipped to $129000 in January, which was $1000 lower than December. The median has been hovering between $125000 and $135000 for about two years, ...

Chicago Area Foreclosure Sales Doubled in January 2012
PR Web (press release)
According to The Illinois Foreclosure Listing Service, ILFLS.com, the Chicagoland residential real estate picture improved in the first month of 2012. Across the seven county region, foreclosures posted a significant decline of 16.26 percent.

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More Homeowners Look to Increase Property Value and Home Appearance Through ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... value as the real estate market opens up again, experts point to landscape maintenance and beautification as the first step. Scott Byron & Co. - an award-winning landscape design and maintenance firm based in Lake Bluff, Illinois - offers complete, ...

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Upstate among most searched real estate markets in January
Greenville News
The information is released to local markets to help consumers and real estate professionals. According to Realtor.com, the top 10 most searched real estate markets in January 2012 were: Chicago, IL, Detroit, MI; Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA; ...

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Property lines: Feb. 17, 2012
Kankakee Daily Journal
All four agents are members of the Kankakee-Iroquois-Ford Association of Realtors, National Association of Realtors and the Illinois Association of Realtors. Rosenboom Realty is announcing its top producers for January. They are: Sandy Boyer -- ABR, ...

Seminar speakers advise farm picture won't stay rosy
Galesburg Register-Mail
Robinson, Samuelson and opening speaker Chris Gavin of Midwest Bank of Western Illinois, each spoke of a “bubble,” particularly in farm real estate prices, but they differentiated farm land prices from other bubbles that have hurt the overall economy ...

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Bloomberg
Potomac Divide Shows Foreclosures Through Courts Slow Home-Price Recovery
Bloomberg
Enlarge image Foreclosures Delay Recovery Foreclosures Delay Recovery Sally Ryan/The New York Times/Redux Josesph Laubinger, real estate agent, right, takes pictures of a foreclosed home as Blanca Sanchez packs her belongings in Lake Villa, Illinois on ...

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With REOs in the Housing Market Spotlight, RE/MAX Agents Offer Tips on How to ...
RealEstateRama (press release)
Among real estate professionals, foreclosures are commonly referred to as REOs, an abbreviation for Real Estate Owned by a lender. In 2011, REO sales accounted for 29 percent of all home sales in the seven-county Chicago metropolitan area compared to ...

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RE/MAX Northern Illinois Agents Donated More Than $100000 to Children's ...
PR.com (press release)
Agents affiliated with RE/MAX offices in the northern Illinois real estate network donated more than $100000 to Children's Memorial Hospital of Chicago in 2011. Chicago, IL, February 16, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Agents affiliated with RE/MAX offices in the ...

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Collar Counties Lead January Home Sales Surge in Metro Chicago Real Estate ...
PR.com (press release)
Chicago, IL, February 16, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Home sales in the seven-county metropolitan Chicago real estate market continued their upward momentum in January, led by strong sales gains in five of the collar counties, according to an analysis by RE/MAX.

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Los Angeles Times
Foreclosures Climb in Florida, Illinois as Lenders Resume Home Seizures
Bloomberg
Foreclosure filings rose for the first time in more than a year in Florida, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Illinois as lenders resumed property seizures after a probe of documentation, according to RealtyTrac Inc. In Florida, one of the hardest-hit states ...
Foreclosure Activity Increases 3 Percent in January According to RealtyTrac(R ...MarketWatch (press release)
US Foreclosures on the Rise AgainCNBC.com
Foreclosures down 55% from '11The Columbian

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Chicago Tribune
Kass: We're No. 1 — in political sleaze
Chicago Tribune
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, the boss of the state's Democratic Party, runs the Legislature. He not only shapes tax policy, but he also has a private law practice reducing taxes for wealthy downtown real estate interests.

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Navistar Employees Adjust to Life in Lisle
Indiana's NewsCenter
A recent article in the Lisle Patch says relocated Navistar employees have bought more than $50 million in Illinois real estate. But since the average home price in Allen County is more than $50000 less than the average home price in Kendall County ...

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Elk Grove Village RE/MAX Agent to Appear on HGTV's House Hunters
RealEstateRama (press release)
by RE/MAX CHICAGO, IL – February 15, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Gary Miller, a real estate agent with RE/MAX Destiny in Elk Grove Village, Ill., will soon get a taste of fame: he and two of his clients will appear on an episode of HGTV's House Hunters ...