Suburban Chicago rents up but incentives remain
The median net rent per square foot at suburban Chicago apartment complexes rose 7.4% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a [...]
Deal of the day: Domu pays your rent
Domu, Schatz Realty's new-ish apartment listing website, is offering what it says is a year's worth of rent to one lucky Facebook fan. To qualify, you [...]
Testing, testing – are you sure you want to move to Park Ridge?
The Interfaith Housing Center of the North Suburbs deploys trained volunteers in matched pairs to test for instances of housing discrimination. Th [...]
In other news – good reads from the feed
Not every story we add to our Chicago Real Estate News feed warrants "top story" status or a "quote of the day" post, but that doesn't make it any [...]
Yo in review: November 13 – 20
Welcome to a new YoChicago
Could Waterview move ahead as an office tower?
How Sandz Development will build Webster Square
Searching for sta [...]
Downtown’s rental inventory: a year in review
Fifty-two weeks ago, we started tracking the number of homes listed for rent in 14 different downtown-area ZIP codes. (Every Friday, using the "re [...]
Quote of the day: Up in smoke
"The good majority are smaller landlords who have had their apartment buildings for 20 or 30 years, and they're thinking they're going to rehab them i [...]
Condo associations rethinking rental restrictions
"It's a concern, but I have a sense that most buildings in this neighborhood have put their concerns about rentals on the back burner as long as asses [...]
Homestead Group not winning over the Yelp crowd
The Homestead Group may be "Chicago's Apartment Finding Experts" (that's what its website says, at least), but through 63 reviews, dating as far back [...]
Quote of the day – Don't rent from Beal
The message in the headline is repeated over and over in 54 Yelp reviews of Beal Properties, and the other names under which Beal allegedly does busin [...]
Chicago Multiple Listing Service suffers maggot infestation
First I hear of bedbugs shuttering a Hollister store in SoHo, and then I find maggots in the Chicago Multiple Listing Service. Not a pleasant evening' [...]
What Yelpers say about the most reviewed property management company in Chicago
I'll admit, I rarely visit Yelp, but I know people who put a lot of stock in its users' opinions. If you do, you'll probably spend a lot of time sifti [...]
Boomerang renters and vacant apartments
When the economy is distressed, as it currently is, young adults often retreat to their parents' homes – leaving empty apartments behind them. They're [...]
Rent or buy: Rental density by ward
A new report issued today by the Metropolitan Tenants Organization finds that rental households still constitute half of the Chicago's homes and con [...]
Appraisal Research: Condos for rent, online resources putting pressure on apartments
With 4,546 new construction condo units delivering in 2009, we expect the number of condo units available for rent to continue escalating.
We continu [...]
Why own at Mod when you can rent?
Okay, that's a deceptive headline, because it implies you actually have a choice. Sources at Chicago Graystone Realty and Jameson Real Estate both c [...]