Author: Jeff Baird
Lincoln Park takes downturn in stride
It's not surprising that the neighborhoods with the highest incomes have weathered the housing downturn better than the ones with lower incomes. B [...]
Prices down, but wealthy neighborhoods avoided roller coaster
It's been a wrenching few years to watch price and volume movements in many of Chicago's neighborhoods. These metrics are prone to doing strange t [...]
Home prices – a welcome V shape in some neighborhoods
Several neighborhoods that had seen a steep decline in median selling prices in recent quarters saw an equally steep rise last quarter. The effect [...]
Top tier led boom in city single-family prices last quarter
The median selling price of a house in Chicago was 14% higher in the third quarter of 2012, led largely by sharp price increases at the top of the [...]
A double-digit increase in the city’s condo market
The third quarter of 2012 was a good one in the city's condo market: sales volume increased by almost 12%, and median selling prices by almost 11% [...]
Housing starts rise nationally, but Chicago permit data shows little activity
The level of housing starts in the U.S. (data not available at the city or county level) has increased noticeably over the past 12 months, but bui [...]
Pain might be ending for Chicago’s lowest Case-Shiller tier
One thing to watch in the Case-Shiller home price index is the tiered breakout. S&P assigns each pair in the paired-sale analysis to the top, midd [...]
Rogers Park condos continue their long slide along the bottom
The bad news first: the median selling price of a condominium in Rogers Park last quarter was $62,500. But the good news is that they are selling [...]
Home prices headed in the right direction – down
Today’s front-page Tribune article on housing prices in the region reports that sales volume has been rising in each of the last seven months, but [...]
Condos fare worse than houses in lowest tier
In my most recent post, I wrote about how condominiums, all else equal, can fall in value farther than houses due to underwriting standards issued [...]
Why condo prices can fall harder than house prices
Earlier this week, I wrote about three neighborhoods -- Rogers Park, Humboldt Park, and Irving Park -- whose condominium markets have been pummele [...]
Tough time for condos in three once-strong markets
Condominiums in Rogers Park, Humboldt Park and Irving Park -- three neighborhoods that once had strong new development and high selling prices -- [...]
Two straight lines in Chicago housing report
Compiling market statistics in Chicago neighborhoods has usually meant looking at a lot of jagged (and mostly downward-pointing) lines over the la [...]
Median Chicago housing prices fall further in 2011
Chicago homes sales experienced their typical fourth quarter slump at the end of 2011, settling to about 7,600 houses and 4,500 condominiums and t [...]
Median selling prices take a hit on northwest side
The last time I wrote for YoChicago, I highlighted several neighborhoods whose sellers were holding out for a higher price -- in other words, neig [...]
Lincoln Park, West Town condo sellers holding out for price – and getting it
Owners of condominiums and single family homes in one of Chicago's priciest neighborhoods, Lincoln Park, have not, on average, settled for lower s [...]
Strong third quarter single-family sales on Chicago’s north side
The three months ending September 30 were a boon to single family home sales in several key north side neighborhoods, including Edgewater (up 91% [...]
Single-family home sales up consistently across Chicago neighborhoods
The city saw a 30% increase in single family homes last quarter of the previous quarter, and the increase was consistent across the top 20 neigh [...]
A strong third quarter for Chicago real estate
Although the Chicago-area economy has seen 8 months of increasing unemployment, the city's housing market showed some signs of optimism in the thi [...]
Chicago home sales volume, prices down in many neighborhoods
City sales volume and median selling prices are down across a wide swath of neighborhoods, second-quarter sales data show.
Citywide, condominium sa [...]