Congratulations to the newly installed Illinois REALTORS ® Leadership Team! The 2023 officers include - President-Elect Matt Silver REALTOR ® .
Matt is a partner and senior broker with Corcoran Urban Real Estate.
Matt Silver , C2EX, CRS, ePRO, and GRI, began his real estate career in 1998. He is a member of the Chicago Association of REALTORS ® (CAR) and has served on its Board of Directors...
Congratulations to our senior broker and partner Matt Silver on his recent appointment as the 2022 Treasurer for Illinois REALTORS® Association.
Matt Silver, C2EX, CRS, ePRO, GRI, began his real estate career in 1998. He is a member of the Chicago Association of REALTORS® (CAR) and has served on its Board of Directors. He is a past president of CAR, was named its 2018 REALTOR® of the Year, and received its 2013 REALTOR® Achievement Award...
September 24th, 2021 saw the return of the annual Chicago Association of REALTORS (CAR) gala in person. The glamorous event took place in Hilton Chicago’s grand ballroom to celebrate the installment of CAR’s 2021-2022 leadership team. Among the new appointees was our very own associate broker Erik Schwab .
We want to congratulate Erik Schwab on joining the Board of Directors for CAR...
Not leaving your home doesn't mean you can't continue your home search. Corcoran Urban Real Estate has created a multi-layer platform to help you see properties, in the safety and luxury of your home.
The Corcoran Urban Virtual process:
1) Tour any one of Chicagoland's listings that offer virtual tours or videos on our on our Exclusive Virtual Tour platform . Click by neighborhood, and see each listing's virutal walk-through of the interior of a property...
Even though the world around us has come to a tremendous halt in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic, brokers across the country have received many inquiries regarding whether now is the right time to make a move and buy or sell. Corcoran Urban brokers continue to work with clients while practicing best practices in social distancing to help our clients.
What do you need to know?
- Brokers are actively taking clients on tours via video chat...
Congratulations to our very own Matt Farrell for being named in the Top 20 Best Chicago Real Estate Agents. Expertise, the group which researches industries across various the country, states on its website this about its process:
"Proprietary research and selection process identifies the top service professionals in over 200 different industries across the top cities in the United States...
Congratulations to Urban senior partner/broker Michael Emery and the Chicago Association of Realtors (CAR) Golf Committee on its extraordinary efforts in its recent golf outing. Emery, who chaired the 112th Golf Classic Committee, spearheaded fundraising efforts and event planning for the annual event with CAR staff and a group of tremendous volunteers on his committee. Among those who served were Urban broker Justin Oliver...
New Eastside real estate brokerage Urban Real Estate has continued to grow and expand its areas of giving through its “Urban Living - Urban Giving” initiative. Recently, the Urban team proudly spent the day cooking lunch for families staying at the Streeterville Ronald McDonald House (RMH)...
Check this GORGEOUS Urban listing at The Legacy at 60 E. Monroe, featured on BuzzFeed.com . The interactive online article offers readers a casual survey titled, "12 Tough 'Would You Rather?' Questions: the Home Edition", challenging readers to choose from a variety of home styles they prefer, and where they would want to live. The ultra-luxurious 35th floor Urban Real Estate listing is choice Number 11.
This 3 bedroom, 2...
Chicago-based Urban Real Estate (Urban) senior partner Michael Emery recently contributed to a Chicago Tribune article showcasing the attraction Chicago has to fellow British expatriates looking to invest in the Windy City. Recognizing Chicago has attributes many international buyers are highly attracted to, Urban has developed officially created a niche international relocation program, geared toward the investor abroad, looking to make a piece of the Midwest, theirs...
Check out Urban senior partner Michael Emery's in-depth interview with the Chicago Tribune on helping British expatriates make Chicago, home. Read the full interview in the Chicago Tribune.
Urban Real Estate partner Matt Silver lends his voice as the 2017 president of the Chicago Association of REALTORS in the July housing report, presented by the Illinois REALTORS. According to the trade group, Illinois home prices show solid gains, along with a decline of days on market.
Read more from Matt Silver, and the full report here .
As information and idea sharing goes, few real estate trade conferences compare quite to the convergence of more than 4,000 top producers, CEO's, technology and marketing executive talent brought together at the annual Inman Connect in San Francisco...
Urban partner Matt Silver is featured in this issue of "Who's Who in Chicagoland Real Estate", presented by Chicago Agent Magazine, a real estate trade publication. Matt, who is wrapping up his one-year term as president of the Chicago Association of REALTORS, talks about balancing giving back and his real estate business.
Read more about one of Urban's own here.
Urban Real Estate is proud to again be included in the annual "Who's Who 2017" presented by real estate trade publication, Chicago Agent Magazine. Check out some of our team in this year's two-page spread .
Have you seen? Urban Real Estate partner Matt Silver is profiled in Men’s Book Chicago for his active role in Chicago real estate, and most recently, his service as this year’s president of the Chicago Association of REALTORS, representing the more than 13,500 members of the trade association...
A new apartment development in Bucktown will soon be opening and it will bring a neighborhood amenity with it.
Aldi will be re-opening in their location at 1753 N. Milwaukee Avenue on June 15. It was previously located in a single story strip-mall style building but will now be part of a development adjacent to the popular 606 trail with 100 rental apartments and 18,000 square feet of grocery store.
Read more at DNAinfo Chicago here ...
Like cool grays for decorating your home? You're not alone.
A new study from Zillow indicates that picking the right paint color can have a noticeable impact on the sale price of your home. In order to make the determination, they compared over 32,000 photographs of homes sold in the country over a seven-year period and compared them to homes sold with white walls...
More good news for home owners and sellers: March saw a 5.8 percent annual gain year-over-year on national home prices, according to the latest report from the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index.
That's up from the 5.7 percent increase reported in February.
“Home prices continue rising with the S&P Corelogic Case-Shiller National Index up 5.8% in the year ended March, the fastest pace in almost three years,” David M...
Demand is picking up among first time buyers which means that new home sizes are also on the decline, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
The median square footage of new construction homes decreased in the first quarter of this year to 2,389 , from 2,440 in the fourth quarter of 2016. Average square footage also declined from 2,628 to 2652 in the same periods...
