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Home Prices Shatter Another Record

Pro Builder

Nationally home prices are 41% higher than their last peak during the housing boom in 2006. Prices in just about every city in the 20-city index, except for Chicago, are at all-time highs, he said, as are the national composition and the 10- and 20-city indices. Prices rose 18.6% annually in June, up from the 16.8% increase in May.

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Renters are the majority in 42 U.S. cities

BD+C

During the 10 years between 2006 and 2016, almost a quarter of the 100 largest cities in the United States shifted from owner- to renter-majority. 22 cities total made the shift, including key markets like Chicago, San Diego, Detroit, Austin, and Sacramento.

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Building in Chicago: Embracing the US adventure and spirit

Construction Marketing Ideas

We published our first issue of Chicago Construction News yesterday. Yesterday, we launched Chicago Construction News. But what about Chicago? Brooke has been incredibly successful in building relationships in Chicago. And how could we hold the fort for a decade to allow this re-launch. I thought he would leave.

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REAL ESTATE ARTIST: Theaster Gates works to revitalize African-American neighborhoods

BD+C

Theaster Gates is an award-winning artist whose installations, sculptures, and performance works have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Ore.

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The New Frameworks Philosophy

Natural Building

“Climate justice and climate response is not a theory to us; it’s a practice,” Ace McArleton, who cofounded the company in 2006, said. McArleton grew up in suburban Chicago and Ann Arbor, Mich. A vital part of its mission is to “draw down” carbon in its projects to reverse emissions.

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#118:  Letters of Intent Forming Enforceable Contracts

NH Construction Law

498, 505 (2006). ” Chicago Investment Corp. Our Supreme Court has adopted the dictionary definition of the word, “constituting an indispensable. condition of a thing,” “necessary,” “important in the highest degree,” and “unavoidably significant.” ” Behrens v. Dolins , 107 Ill.2d

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PSMJ Resources Inc. Finds that A/E Billing Rates Decreased in 2010 as Firms Fell Victim to Pricing Pressure

PSMJ Resources

the premier management consulting firm for the A/E/C (architecture/ engineering/construction) industries, today announced that billing rates for most management positions either held steady or decreased during 2010 and 2011 after increasing in 2006, 2007, and 2009. Get more information now , or call 1-800-537-PSMJ to register today!