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Hone in on These Home-Related iPhone Apps
Selling a home? Buying a home? Improving a home? Maintaining a home?
There’s an app for that.
Chicagoland Real Estate Forum found some of the best mobile applications available for iPhone and iPod Touch that can assist with your housing needs. They are all free and available for download at the iTunes store.
Home Hunting
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Tour at Museum Displays Green Living
Want to see Chicago’s greenest home? Visit Home: Green + Wired at the Museum of Science and Industry.
Situated on the museum’s east side, the exhibit is a real, functioning three-story home that features the latest in eco-friendly living and is being touted as the greenest home in Chicago.
In its third year, the 2500-square-foot demo [...]
Several Local Seminars on LEED for Homes
Before the ground completely thaws and the building season kicks off, Chicago’s local LEED for Homes provider, the Alliance for Environmental Sustainability, is launching a series of green building seminars around the Chicagoland area. The seminars are nearly free and cover the LEED for Homes rating system.
Double Federal Tax Credit at Sunset Ridge Estates in Richmond
New home buyers looking to cash in on a deal that’s twice as nice had best hurry to Sunset Ridge Estates in Richmond before the bargain of a lifetime expires.
For a limited time, KLM Builders will match Uncle Sam’s current special tax credits for home buyers. That means that first-time buyers can now get $16,000 [...]
Chicagoland Housing Market is on the Rebound
At the end of last year, the Illinois housing market saw a decrease in property values but an increase in sales. According to the Illinois Association of Realtors fourth quarter 2009 report, there was a 35.6 percent increase in Illinois home sales in the last quarter of 2009 compared to the number of sales at [...]
