Yuval Degani's (dreamtown) Blog

If your an own a Chicago home, your property taxes will be going up soon due to a newly approved budget by the Chicago Board of Education. The Board voted unanimously this week on a budget that includes $153 million in property tax increases. This translates to roughly $84 more per year for a typ...

Located thirteen miles southwest of the Chicago Loop, Brookfield, IL is a comfortable settlement populated by some 19,000 close-knit residents. It is as close to the city center as some of outlying Chicago’s neighborhoods yet enjoys the perks of suburban life (e.g. lower taxes) and one of the bes...

For decades, a large parcel of land just past the Roosevelt Collection loft building in Chicago South Loop has remained surprisingly vacant despite its promising location and size. The 5-acre plot of land, nestled between the South Loop neighborhood and the Chicago River, has been the site of num...

For the second month in a row, Chicago and the rest of the country has seen a marked increase in pending home sales figures. The national real estate market has experienced “strong double-digit” gains in June 2011 over the same month in 2010, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR...

Pending home sales made a comeback in June from the previous year with a 19.8% growth in signed purchase contracts from June of 2010. This is the latest news from the National Association of Realtors (NAR), which said every region of the country showed double-digit year-over-year gains in June. J...