Apr 14, 2023 | EAR Local News, Rent
By Jenny Lelwica Buttaccio Mar 7, 2023 (Getty Images) Shortly after they were married, Brittany H. and her husband moved into an apartment in Chicago’s Irving Park neighborhood. With Victorian houses and vintage flats dotting the tree-lined streets,...
Dec 1, 2021 | Consumer News and Advice, EAR Local News, Home Buying 101, Real Estate, Real Estate Finance, Real Estate News, Rent, Trends
By Clare TrapassoDec 1, 2021 (Realtor.com / Getty Images) Here’s what we already know: Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the real estate market has been on a wild ride of unprecedented highs and lows—record-high home prices on one side, record-low mortgage...
Mar 1, 2021 | Consumer News and Advice, EAR Local News, NAR, Real Estate, Real Estate News
A federal judge has delivered a potential blow to the national eviction moratorium first issued under the Trump administration. J. Campbell Barker, federal district judge for the Eastern District of Texas who was nominated by President Trump, ruled that the powers...
Feb 22, 2021 | Consumer News and Advice, EAR Local News, Home Buying 101, Real Estate, Real Estate Finance, Real Estate News, Today's Top Consumer News
It’s a big question with no easy answer: Should you keep renting, or is it time to think about buying a home? One of the major benefits of being a homeowner is building equity with each mortgage payment, instead of putting money into your landlord’s pocket. But that...