All Entries Tagged With: "home building industry"
U.S. Foreclosures Drop 10% in January as Illinois Rises 2%
Good news – foreclosure filings down nationally. The not so good news – Illinois in the top 5 of that list with a 2% increase in January over last year. When the list is of foreclosure filings by state, it’s not where Illinois homeowners particularly (that I know of) enjoy being near the top.
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The Next Decade in Housing Set For Paradigm Shift
Changing demographics, home values and soured perceptions of home ownership are clues to a major change the national real estate market according to experts at the Urban Land Institute. A study produced by John K. McIlwain, senior resident fellow of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) released Housing In America – The Next Decade, a forecast [...]
Top 10 Things to Put in Your Next New Chicago Home
Builder Magazine Online listed their Top 10 items for builders to consider putting in their 2010 new homes. Perhaps not surprisingly, many products on the ‘top 10 list’ are energy efficient / green building technology that is all the rage now in the industry. They are justified as important if the real AND perceived value [...]
New Homes and Marketing To Change With Millennial Generation
When the housing market turns around, there are many changes on the horizon for new homes in Chicago and nationally. It is difficult to tell exactly when that will occur as many experts disagree, but they all agree that the next generation of new homes will be smaller, more energy efficient, higher in density and [...]
Chicago Dream Home Raffle 2009-2010
Setting an example of how builders and home builders associations are helping individuals in need in their own communities and around the globe, the 2009-2010 Chicago Dream Home Raffle is raising money for three non-profit charitable organizations with strong ties to the housing industry.
In a series of early bird drawings and a final drawing on [...]
