Crain’s residential real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin talks with host Amy Guth about news from the local housing market, including the 50 highest-priced home sales of 2023, Illinois Realtors’ $1 million campaign against a transfer-tax increase, and Cook County’s plan to make homes healthier for owners and renters.

Plus: Smaller banks face bigger risks from the depressed commercial real estate market, judge ends Byron Allen's lawsuit over McDonald's ad spending, museum hotel in River North hits the market and Winnetka passes lakefront ordinance despite threat of lawsuits.

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