The period of uncertainty over what new model of paying homebuyers' agents just got longer, as the Chicago-based NAR said it will go to the Supreme Court with its fight to get the US Dept of Justice to halt an investigation of its commission standards. chicagobusiness.com/residential-re…

A $6 million mansion in HInsdale was bought by a big downstate soybean company whose CEO has a presence in the tony suburb. chicagobusiness.com/residential-re…

10 miles + 67 years from its start in an Oak Park house, the Old Town School of Folk Music is a beloved institution for music-makers + an anchor of Lincoln Square, housed in an Art Deco former public library. Here's our tour from today's Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons. wbez.org/architecture/2…

Last night a Lake Forest mansion on a historic site hit the market at $27.5 million, the second Chicago-area home in less than a month to ask more than $25 m. chicagobusiness.com/residential-re…

In the 20th century real estate market, "Whiteness became an amenity as important as having a beautiful park nearby," U Chicago prof Adrienne Brown told me when we discussed her book, The Residential Is Racial. chicagobusiness.com/residential-re…

Owner who put this handsome Frank Lloyd Wright house through an enery-saving rehab is putting it on the market at just under $1.5 m. Like the sellers of Wright's Winslow house nearby, she told me she's asking less than she put into purchase + rehab. chicagobusiness.com/it-hits-market…

The $7.3 m sale of a Gold Coast condo Jason Heyward used to own shows the streak of $7 m-plus sales isn't over. In the past 18 days, 6 Chi-area homes have sold for $7 m or more. It's a notably vigorous run of sales. chicagobusiness.com/residential-re…

There's been a switch of federal judges on 3 real estate commission cases in the Chicago federal court. The judge who had been overseeing the cases found a conflict of interest, a relative working for the law firm of one case's defendants. chicagobusiness.com/residential-re…

For sale in Elmhurst at $609,900: a house with nostrils.

House-in-the-Woods, a gorgeous Dwight Perkins design for the matriarch of the International Harvester family in 1916, sold after 2 years on the market. Seller is the exec who in 1990s spun Allstate out from Sears as a separate company. chicagobusiness.com/residential-re…