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RE/MAX Ultimate Professionals in Shorewood, Ill., recently added 1,600 square feet to its office, including a new iCafé area, where brokers and their clients can confer or just relax.

The luxury home segment in the seven-county metropolitan Chicago real estate market moved to higher ground in 2014. Both total transactions and the median sales price increased, according to the RE/MAX Luxury Report on Metro Chicago Real Estate.

RE/MAX Northern Illinois CTO Casey Reagan recently announced the next major milestone in the company’s mobile real estate strategy. The highly popular Commute Time Search has now been adapted for all Android devices and the iPhone.

RE/MAX Ultimate Professionals, with offices in Plainfield and Shorewood, Ill., has added three leading local real estate brokers to its ranks. The new arrivals push the total number of brokers affiliated with the two offices to 25.

With the holiday season upon us, those who still have a home to sell may find their most welcome holiday present will be a signed sales contract.

RE/MAX Northern Illinois, a privately held RE/MAX region and Chicagoland’s real estate leader since 1989, has introduced dotloop™ to its network of 102 independently owned and operated offices with 2,200 brokers in the northern Illinois area.

There were two challenges in renovating a pair of historic Victorian row houses in Chicago’s Oakland community, according to Hasani Steele, a broker with RE/MAX Premier Properties, who was successful in finding buyers for both properties.

RE/MAX Suburban, the largest RE/MAX brokerage franchise in Illinois, with seven offices serving the metropolitan Chicago real estate market, has welcomed eight new broker agents to its ranks.

The RE/MAX Hot Air Balloon and its crew will make stops at two schools in Mercer County, Ill., on Nov. 7 to present a special educational program about hot air ballooning, including its history and the scientific principles.

Home sales in the $1 million-plus segment of the metropolitan Chicago real estate market have continued to show upward momentum through the first nine months of 2014, and sales activity was especially strong in the third quarter.