Chicago Real Estate

 
By Lauren Baier Kim 

Here’s a look at what’s new in real-estate markets across the U.S. from around the Web. (Some links may require registration or subscriptions.)
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Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:49pm EST
By James B. Kelleher
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Sam Zell on Wednesday compared the current credit-fueled crisis in U.S. real estate to the savings-and-loan meltdown of the late 1980s but said it was a “manageable” problem that would not drag the wider economy into a recession next year.
Speaking at an […]

CHICAGO, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ — Despite the subprime credit crisis that
contributed to a volatile second half of 2007, the U.S. Economy will overcome
the odds of a recession, re-accelerate over the course of 2008 and help to
stabilize most financial markets, it was forecast today at fourth annual
Investment Outlook hosted by Mesirow Financial, the Chicago-based diversified
financial services […]

Media Release
11-21-2007
Chicago Realtor Dan Kiley of Hudson Parker in Lincoln Park knows what to do when Chicago’s winter slows the market down: move business to a booming ski town.
After a $7 million summer in Chicago, Kiley has decided to switch roles from Chicago Realtor to Whitefish Realtor. Whitefish, Montana that is. Home to Whitefish […]

November 15, 2007
Buyer’s market is not always what it seems
By Marilyn Kennedy Melia |Special to the Tribune
Just because this a buyer’s market doesn’t mean buyers have it easy. Here are some of their challenges:
FOLLOWING YOUR MONEY. Getting a mortgage is humbling again.
In the height of the housing boom, securing financing was hardly a worry, notes […]