Tag: Foreclosures
Building permits up, foreclosures down nationally
From a RealtyTrac news release:
An exclusive RealtyTrac housing market analysis of building permit data recently released by the U.S. Departmen [...]
Are there deals to be had at Printers Row Lofts?
Printers Row Lofts is an 8-story, 138-unit loft building at 732 S Financial Pl in the South Loop. The building, which is on the National Register [...]
CoreLogic – Rising home prices put upward pressure on rents
Yesterday CoreLogic released its April MarketPulse Report (PDF, free registration required). The report includes a discussion of housing's anticip [...]
Distressed sales decline sharply in major cities, modestly in Chicago
Last week the ever-informative Calculated Risk blog posted a table showing the share of the market accounted for by distressed properties, i.e. sh [...]
Chicago foreclosure inventory decline badly lags national rate
According to data released yesterday by CoreLogic, of the nation's 25 largest CBSAs, Chicago had the third highest number of completed foreclosure [...]
Shadow inventory down 28 percent from 2010 peak
CoreLogic released its January 2013 Shadow Inventory Report yesterday and issued the following news release:
CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading [...]
Foreclosures, short sales were 43 percent of 2012 US sales
RealtyTrac today released its Year-End and Q4 2012 U.S. Foreclosure and Short Sales Report, which shows a total of 947,995 U.S. properties in some [...]
Distressed properties dominate the market in Rogers Park
Rogers Park developers periodically fall prey to a state of irrational exuberance. The peak of the most recent mania had already passed in May of [...]
Which Chicago neighborhoods have the most foreclosures?
The Woodstock Institute recently released its report on foreclosure filings for the second half of 2012. Read the news release for a summary and a [...]
Condo buyers need to do their homework
Just over a year ago I visited the Springfield Vue condominium, a/k/a The Springview, at 1920 N Springfield, on the border of Logan Square and Her [...]
RealtyTrac reports foreclosure inventory up 33% in Illinois year-over-year
RealtyTrac released its Year-End 2012 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report yesterday, and Illinois earned an unenviable spot in a number of its rankings [...]
Follow the Woodlawn Wonder’s foreclosure story
Back in 2006 a blogger calling herself the Woodlawn Wonder began writing I Hate My Developer, the saga of her efforts to solve the problems plagui [...]
Nearly 1 in every 4 Illinois sales foreclosure-related
RealtyTrac released its Q3 2012 Foreclosure & Short Sales Report yesterday. In, Q3 24% of Illinois sales, or nearly in every 4, were foreclosure-r [...]
CoreLogic – Illinois one of top states in foreclosures
CoreLogic released its National Foreclosure Report for October yesterday. The report provides data on completed U.S. foreclosures and the overall [...]
Occupy Our Homes vs Fifth Third Bank
Almost a year ago we wondered whether Occupy Chicago was using the homeless as cannon fodder by encouraging them to occupy foreclosed homes.
A [...]
Illinois foreclosures up 19% year-over-year
RealtyTrac released its U.S. Foreclosure Market Report for October 2012 yesterday. The report shows foreclosure filings — default notices, schedul [...]
Chicago October home sales volume up 50% year-over-year
The following market update arrived via a news release from RE/MAX Northern Illinois:
The seven-county metropolitan Chicago real estate market [...]
Price collapse continues at colorful Catalpa Gardens
The three blue and gold 11-story towers of Edgewater's Catalpa Gardens make a colorful statement up close and from a distance. The 126-unit comple [...]
Dubious Dubin developments descend definitively into deadpool
Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily reported late last week on late-September federal court judgments against developer David Dubin.
Dubin has be [...]
Metro Chicago third quarter sales volume highest since 2007
The following market update arrived via a news release from RE/MAX Northern Illinois:
The residential segment of the metropolitan Chicago real [...]