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Feds And Lenders Hash Out Foreclosure Settlement

April 15, 2011 - If you were one of the many Chicago condo owners who were hit with a foreclosure suit last year and felt it was unjust, you may have some compensation coming your way. According to recent articles in the Sun Times and Inman News, teh Federal Reserve and several other investigation federal […]

Many Chicago Homebuyers May Have Claimed Wrong Tax Credit

September 13, 2010 - The free $8,000 first-time homebuyer federal tax credit may not be so free to quite a few homebuyers. According to data released by the Inspector General for Tax Administration, there are around 950,000 of the 1.8 million national homebuyers who claimed the credit improperly and may have to repay it.
The problem […]

Home Staging Seminar And Foreclosure Help

August 23, 2010 - If you’ve been thinking about selling your Chicago condo or shopping for Chicago condos, then you know how important first impressions are to prospective buyers. You can increase your chances of a sale or just learn how to stage a home for selling by attending the home staging seminar that Koenig […]

Chicago Spire Sales Center Scaled Down

May 25, 2010 - The only news lately about the Chicago Spire hasn’t exactly been good news. The extravagant 18th floor sales center with full-size model in the NBC Tower was advertised almost as much as the Chicago real estate development itself. But that sales center is history now, as Spire developer Garrett Kelleher and […]

Interest-Only Loans Become Harder To Get

May 13, 2010 - The age of interest-only mortgages is slowly coming to an end. Freddie Mac already put the breaks on those types of loans and now Fannie Mae is moving in that direction as well. According to a recent article in the Tribune, as of this coming September 1st, Fannie Mae backed interest-only […]