Kane County

Dec. 4, 2025

How to find a deal in this market

 

 

 

 

 

Want to know how to find the best deal possible in today’s housing market? Here’s the secret. Focus on homes that have been sitting on the market for a while.

Because when a listing lingers, sellers tend to …

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Nov. 26, 2025

The holiday window of opportunity

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the holidays roll around, travel plans, family gatherings, and all the chaos of the season may make you think it’s better to pull your listing off the market or to wait until 2026 to sell your house

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Nov. 11, 2025

The VA home loan advantage

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you’ve served in the military (or if your spouse has), you have access to one of the most powerful homebuying tools out there. The chance to buy a home without having a down payment.

Unfortunately, 70% …

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Nov. 5, 2025

Home prices and your equity

 

 

 

 

 

If you’ve seen headlines about home prices dropping, it’s easy to wonder what that means for the value of your home too. Here’s what you really need to know.

Even with small price declines in some markets, data shows …

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Oct. 23, 2025

Why do homes feel like they cost so much

 

 

 

 

 

Scroll through your feed and you’ll see plenty of finger-pointing about why homes cost so much. And according to a national survey, a lot of people believe big investors are to blame.

Even though data shows that’s not true, …

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Oct. 15, 2025

2026 Market Outlook

 

 

 

 

 

After a couple of years where the housing market felt stuck in neutral, 2026 may be the year things shift back into gear. Expert forecasts show more people are expected to move – and that could open the door for …

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Oct. 8, 2025

Mortgage rates should decrease over the next year

 

 

 

 

 

You want mortgage rates to fall – and they’ve started to. But is it going to last? And how low will they go?

Experts say there’s room for rates to come down even more over the next year. And …

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Oct. 2, 2025

Downsizing without the debt

 

 

 

 

 

If you’ve been thinking about downsizing to lower your expenses, be closer to family, or just make life easier, here’s a trend worth paying attention to:

More homeowners are buying their next house outright, without taking on a new …

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Sept. 24, 2025

Affordability may finally be showing signs of improvement this fall

 

 

 

 

 

For the past couple of years, it’s been tough for a lot of homebuyers to make the numbers work. Home prices shot up. Mortgage rates too. And a number of people hit pause because it just didn’t feel possible. Maybe …

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Sept. 17, 2025

A perfect storm. Lower rates, buyers react

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage rates are finally heading in the right direction – and buyers are starting to jump back in.

According to the data, buyer demand picked up considerably once mortgage rates hit a new low for 2025. The 

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