8/27/14
The following arrived via a news release from the North Shore – Barrington Association of Realtors: Home prices on the North Shore continued to...
8/21/14
The following arrived via news release from CoreLogic: Distressed sales (REO and short sales) accounted for 11.4 percent of total home sales in June,...
8/20/14
Applications are now open for the 21st Annual Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards (CNDA). The CNDAs recognize innovation and best practices in neighborhood development. Established...
8/11/14
According to our server logs, YoChicago had 104,196 unique visitors in July. That’s the first time we’ve passed the 100K mark in a month,...
8/7/14
There are currently 994 homes, apartments and condos listed for rent in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in the 14 downtown Chicago ZIP Codes...
8/6/14
CoreLogic released its June Home Price Index (HPI) report yesterday. Home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, increased 7.5 percent in June 2014 compared to...
8/5/14
More than two-thirds of the more than 85,000 unique visitors to YoChicago each month are new to the site, and only 14% of our...
8/4/14
Late last year we began a series of apartment reviews and they’ve proven popular, contributing to a more than 70% year-over-year increase in our...
7/30/14
As of late yesterday there were 832 homes and condos listed for rent in local Multiple Listing Service in ZIP Codes 60614, 60657, 60613,...
7/28/14
Crain’s Chicago Business reported yesterday that the Chicago Housing Authority is issuing “supervouchers” that enable low-income residents to rent in some of the city’s...
7/28/14
YoChicago has more than 2,500 videos on our primary YouTube channel, and they’ve been viewed more than 3.8 million times. We have far more...
7/24/14
RealtyTrac defines a mortgaged home as “seriously underwater” when “the combined loan amount secured by the property is at least 25 percent higher than...
7/23/14
Foreclosure rates in the Chicago – Naperville – Arlington Heights metro decreased for the month of May over the same period last year, according...
7/22/14
One of the few things you can say for certain about the Millennial Generation is that its membership is huge in number. Beyond the...
7/17/14
RealtyTrac released its Midyear 2014 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report today. The report reflects a 19% decrease in US foreclosure filings over the previous six...
7/10/14
RealtyTrac released an analysis today profiling which single family homes sell at the deepest discounts and which sell at the highest premiums based on...
7/9/14
We’re not talking about the so-called hipster invasion of Pilsen, nor are we resurrecting stale debates about the threat of gentrification. We’re merely relaying...
7/9/14
CoreLogic released its May National Foreclosure Report yesterday. According to CoreLogic, for the month of May 2014, there were 47,000 completed foreclosures nationally, down...
7/9/14
I’ve take many photographs while shooting 1,000s of videos and I’ve often been asked by real estate agents to do the photography for the...
7/3/14
RealtyTrac just released its Q2 2014 Residential Property Rental Report, which ranks the best markets for buying residential rental properties along with the best...