It's officially Black History Month in Chicago! The city and its surrounding areas are promoting events all month long designed to celebrate, educate and recognize the accomplishments and history of African Americans who have shaped our lives. If you're looking to take a deeper dive, check out some of the ways Chicago is honoring Black History Month this year. 

There are few things in life better than building equity. As a brokerage, we're sticking to that. Thankfully, we're not the only ones. Each quarter, CoreLogic creates a Homeowner Equity Insight report to watch just how much equity is appreciating or depreciating on a quarter-to-quarter basis, and compare it to the year before. The big headline? Equity is on the rise. 

By: Catherine Leonard, VP, Designated Managing Broker
Baird & Warner - Evanston

Despite popular belief, the market shift is not due to inherent malfunctions in the lending world like in 2008. The shifts we're seeing are a normalizing response to the pandemic period of high prices, unheard-of low-inte...

There's no doubt about it, the housing market has been a changing, fickle beast for the past few years. Unfortunately, it's been leaving a lot of millennials and up-and-coming first-time homebuyers feeling like they'll never be able to make the jump to homeownership financially. Experts theorize that this is due to