Chicago Real Estate News

3 hrs ago | via Chicago Tribune 

Kuwait Finance House, the country's biggest Islamic bank, signed a "direct residential real estate investment deal" in Chicago for $242 million, the company said in an e-mailed statement Monday.

Related Topix: Chicago, IL, Housing, Business News

Yesterday | via ABA Journal 

Note: Register for this month's CLE, " Real Estate Law: No Commercial Break ," from 1-2 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Jan.

Related Topix: General Growth Properties, Real Estate, Chicago, IL, Economics News, Bankruptcy

Wednesday Dec 23 | via Northwest Herald 

Amanda Schwengel – aschwengel@nwherald.com Joe and Kimberly Fiegel close on a house with mortgage planner Raul Viteri, residential specialist Ken Koreba, and attorney Adam Diamond.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, McHenry, IL, Illinois, Housing, Chicago, IL

Thursday Dec 24 | via Sun-Times News Group 

Work has stopped on the nearly 99,000-square-foot shell of a shopping center at 600 Milwaukee Ave., after developer Central Park Development LLC filed Dec.

Related Topix: Economics News, Bankruptcy, Chicago, IL, Glenview, IL, Northbrook, IL, Home, Mortgage

Wednesday Dec 23 | via San Diego Union-Tribune 

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 9:10 a.m. / AP FILE - In this file photo made Friday, Nov.

Related Topix: Housing, Life, Holidays, Day after Thanksgiving, Chicago, IL

19 hrs ago | via The Capitol Fax Blog 

4 Story of the Decade: Economic downturn hits central Illinois Thanks to early retirement incentives, agency consolidation and layoffs, state employment of 19,600 in Springfield at the beginning of the decade is down to approximately 17,200 by decadea s end.

Related Topix: US News, US Senate, Democrat, US Politics, Senator Roland Burris, Illinois, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Mortgage, Housing, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Yesterday | via Chicago Sun-Times 

Dear Fixer: My mother-in-law, Rosemarie DePinto, cannot get her Wells Fargo mortgage modified.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Illinois

Nov 5, 2008 | via The Oracle 

Obama delivers his acceptance speech in Chicagoa s Grant Park. Americans seeking relief from Wall Street's collapse, widespread foreclosures and swelling unemployment propelled Sen.

Related Topix: US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Democrat, Illinois, Illinois Government, Foreclosures, Barack Obama

Sunday | via Post Tribune 

It was a year of Hope-at first in the sense of, "I feel hopeful!" and later in the sense of "I hope this year ends soon!" It was also a year of Change, especially in Washington, where the tired old hacks of yesteryear finally yielded the reins of power to a group of fresh, young, idealistic, new-idea outsiders such as Nancy Pelosi.

Related Topix: US Politics, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Real Estate, Barack Obama, US Senate, Illinois, Illinois Government

Sunday | via Arizona Daily Star 

It was a year of Hope a ' at first in the sense of "I feel hopeful!" and later in the sense of "I hope this year ends soon!" It was also a year of Change, especially in Washington, where the tired old hacks of yesteryear finally yielded the reins of power to a group of fresh, young, idealistic, new-idea outsiders such as Nancy Pelosi.

Related Topix: Real Estate, US Politics, Barack Obama, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Illinois, Illinois Government

5 min ago | via Vallejo Times-Herald 

There are some modestly hopeful signs that the mortgage crisis is easing. The number of foreclosures declined again in November, a four-month trend.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

6 min ago | via The Jersey Journal 

Q. I received an unsolicited letter from a company that asked if I wanted to sell my home for cash.

Related Topix: Home Listing, Real Estate, Roseland, NJ, Red Bank, NJ

6 min ago | via Guardian Unlimited 

Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images Homes on the most expensive street in southern England cost more than four times as much as ones on the most expensive street in the north, Halifax research showed today.

Related Topix: Greater London County, England, Kensington and Chelsea, England, United Kingdom, London, England, England, United Kingdom, Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Home, Home Listing, West Yorkshire County, England, Halifax, England, Mortgage, Macclesfield, England, Cheshire County, England

8 min ago | via Cybercast News Service 

About the first decade of what was to be the Second American Century, the pessimists have been proven right.

Related Topix: Outsourcing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, George Bush

12 min ago | via ABC News 

Stocks are looking to extend their gains into a seventh straight day as investors anticipate positive readings on home prices and consumer confidence.

Related Topix: Financial Markets, Housing