Is October the Best Month to Buy a Home in Chicago for the Rest of 2026?
Is October the Best Month to Buy a Home in Chicago for the Rest of 2026?CHICAGO— If you want to buy a home before the end of 2026, October may offer one of the more interesting windows of the year.The spring rush is over, summer activity has cooled, and some sellers who listed earlier in the ...
Thinking About Buying in Chicago Next Spring? Start Now, Not in March
Thinking About Buying in Chicago Next Spring? Start Now, Not in MarchIf buying a home is on your spring 2027 calendar, waiting until March to begin the process could put you behind buyers who started preparing months earlier.Chicago’s real estate calendar does not always follow the weather. ...
Fall Home Staging Tips: How Chicago Sellers Can Prepare for Showings
Fall Home Staging Tips: How Chicago Sellers Can Prepare for ShowingsWhen you stage your home well before listing it, buyers connect with the space emotionally and offers tend to come in faster. These home staging tips are built specifically for Chicagoland sellers navigating the fall market, ...
The Grove at Bloomingdale: $375M Stratford Square Redevelopment Update
The Grove at Bloomingdale Takes a Major Step Forward: What’s New at the $375 Million Stratford Square RedevelopmentBLOOMINGDALE— The transformation of the former Stratford Square Mall is starting to look less like a redevelopment plan and more like a new town center taking shape.The Village of ...
10 Fall Activities in Chicago to Put on Your 2026 Calendar
10 Fall Activities in Chicago to Put on Your 2026 CalendarChicago does not ease quietly into fall.By late September, pumpkins start appearing on Goose Island, Lincoln Park Zoo turns into a harvest festival, Lincoln Square smells like apple cider, and some of the city's most interesting ...