June foreclosures at lowest levels since 2006
RealtyTrac released its Midyear 2014 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report today. The report reflects a 19% decrease in US foreclosure filings over the p [...]
Profiling homes that sell at a deep discount or at a premium
RealtyTrac released an analysis today profiling which single family homes sell at the deepest discounts and which sell at the highest premiums bas [...]
Completed foreclosures plummet in metro Chicago area
CoreLogic released its May National Foreclosure Report yesterday. According to CoreLogic, for the month of May 2014, there were 47,000 completed f [...]
Meet Jola Jablonska, a Chicago photographer
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 home.
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Chicago doesn’t rank among top rental markets for investors
RealtyTrac just released its Q2 2014 Residential Property Rental Report, which ranks the best markets for buying residential rental properties alo [...]
Chicago area ranks high in zombie foreclosures
According to RealtyTrac, the Chicago metro area had 9,975 "zombie foreclosures" in Q2 2014, ranking it third in the nation.
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The state of the nation’s housing
Each year Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies publishes a much-anticipated and widely-read report on The State of the Nation's H [...]
Were Illinois home sales up or down in May?
The answer to the headline question depends on which data source you're looking at.
According to the Illinois Association of Realtors (IAR), th [...]
What’s really the fastest-selling neighborhood in Chicago?
Chicago Real Estate Daily has a report that spotlights the five community areas that had the shortest average market times for single-family homes [...]
Metro Chicago’s growth is not in its urban core
A US Census report in 2012 (PDF) singled out Chicago as the metro area with the largest numeric increase in "downtown" population between 2000 an [...]
Illinois ranks fourth nationally in foreclosure filings
According to a just-released RealtyTrac report, Illinois had the fourth highest rate of foreclosure activity in the nation. Per RealtyTrac:
Ill [...]
Watch the Tilt tilting at the Hancock
For those among you who have an affinity for watching grass grow and paint peel, we offer a video view of the Tilt at the Hancock tilting.
The [...]
Metro Chicago home prices continue to rise
CoreLogic's April Home Price Index reflects prices that have continued to rise, and CoreLogic is projecting that prices will rise nationally 6.3 p [...]
Do street fairs reflect Chicago’s racial divide?
If all you knew about Chicago's demographic and racial mix is what you saw at your local street fair, would you have an accurate picture of Chicag [...]
Million-dollar sales up 21% in Chicago through April
The following market update arrived via a news release from RE/MAX Northern Illinois:
The Chicago-area luxury home market continued to gain g [...]
RealtyTrac reports home price appreciation accelerated in April
According to RealtyTrac data, the median sales price of U.S. residential properties — including both distressed and non-distressed sales — was $1 [...]
Chicago-area loan delinquency, foreclosure rates down sharply
According to statistics released yesterday by CoreLogic, the percentage of Chicago metro area mortgage loans that are more than 90 days delinquent [...]
Illinois foreclosure starts down, completions up year-over-year
According to data just released by RealtyTrac, Illinois had the sixth-highest rate of foreclosure filings in the nation, with one in every 706 Ill [...]
Chicago-area home prices increase
CoreLogic released its March Home Price Index (HPI) report yesterday:
In Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights, home prices, including distresse [...]
A visit to Chicago’s West Side with a real estate appraiser
Citywide Services' Michael Walsh is a veteran appraiser whose work takes him to many areas of Chicagoland.
I joined Michael for a mid-morning v [...]