RE/MAX Northern Illinois

Overall results for May in the metropolitan Chicago housing market were something of a repeat, closely echoing the numbers recorded in May 2017, RE/MAX reports.

The newest edition of the RE/MAX Hot Air Balloon, one of the world's most widely known corporate symbols, takes to the skies above northern Illinois for the first time on Saturday, June 16, in McHenry, Ill.

The market for $1-million-plus homes in the seven-county metropolitan Chicago area showed solid improvement in 2017. Sales gained while inventory fell.

Home sales in the seven-county metropolitan Chicago area reached an 11-year peak in 2017, with 116,081 properties changing hands, the most since 2006 but only 1.3 percent more than in 2016, RE/MAX reports.

Over the last 44 years, RE/MAX has grown from an unknown start-up company into the world's best known real estate brand, with operations in more than 100 nations. Now the familiar brand is getting an updated look designed to suit our digital age.

August home sales in the metropolitan Chicago real estate market continued to show the impact of a limited supply of property listings.

Coya J. Smith, one of the leading real estate brokers in Chicago's western suburbs, has acquired the existing RE/MAX Properties franchise in Western Springs, Ill.

The RE/MAX Professional Advantage office in Byron, Ill., has been added to the brokerage group led by Tom Humpal that includes RE/MAX Property Source in Rockford and Belvidere, Ill., and RE/MAX Hub City in Rochelle, Ill.

RE/MAX NEXT, Chicago's newest RE/MAX franchise, will host a grand opening celebration for its office at 1046 W. Kinzie St., Suite 301, from 6 to 9 p.m. on July 14.

Broker associates at RE/MAX of Rock Valley in Oregon, Ill., recently received special recognition from RE/MAX Northern Illinois region for 2016 sales achievements.