Real Estate Matters

After three decades of real estate writing, Ilyce Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin share their final thoughts on the future of real estate. (Dreamstime/TCA)

After 33 years, it’s time to say goodbye to Real Estate Matters (part two)

Home & Leisure / Real Estate Matters / Feb 26, 2026

Bestselling real estate author and expert Ilyce Glink and Chicago-based real estate attorney Sam Tamkin have been writing this column continuously since 1993.

After 33 years of writing our weekly Real Estate Matters column, this one will be our last. In the previous column, we looked back on decades of extraordinary change in the world of real ...Read more

After 33 years, it’s time to say goodbye to Real Estate Matters (part one)

Home & Leisure / Real Estate Matters / Feb 19, 2026

Bestselling real estate author and expert Ilyce Glink and Chicago-based real estate attorney Sam Tamkin have been writing this column continuously since 1993.

This is Real Estate Matters column number 1,726.

That means we’ve been writing Real Estate Matters every single week for 33 years straight — more than three decades of insights, ...Read more

Whether you like it or not, changes are coming. (Dreamstime/TCA)

Real estate trends and predictions for 2026 and beyond, part two

Home & Leisure / Real Estate Matters / Feb 12, 2026

Every year, Ilyce and Sam offer buyer, seller and personal finance resolutions. This year, they’re adding some trends and predictions for 2026. This is part two.

In part one of the 2026 real estate trends and predictions, we looked at the Great Housing Gap, where mortgage rates would be and why home offices are a trend with staying power. ...Read more

The market will change. Are you ready? (Dreamstime/TCA)

Real estate trends and predictions for 2026 and beyond, part one

Home & Leisure / Real Estate Matters / Feb 05, 2026

Every year, Ilyce and Sam offer buyer, seller and personal finance resolutions. This year, they’re adding some trends and predictions for 2026.

If 2025 taught us anything about real estate, it’s that the old playbook is being rewritten. Between mortgage rates stuck for most of the year well above 6%, insurance costs that shocked homeowners,...Read more