Number of new foreclosure filings plummets
RealtyTrac today released its U.S. Foreclosure Market Report for August 2013. The report shows foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled au [...]
Chicago is leading net exporter of people to New York
According to a recent piece by Aaron Renn at City Journal, the New York area lost nearly 2 million net domestic migrants in the 2000s.
Chicago did [...]
Wrecking the Purple Hotel and Macsai’s Shit List
The demolition of the Purple Hotel in Lincolnwood has elicited a great deal of attention and commentary, as the building itself did throughout the [...]
Chicago sales up 27%, median price up 10% year-over-year
RealtyTrac today released its July 2013 U.S. Residential & Foreclosure Sales Report, which shows that U.S. residential properties sold at an estim [...]
A homeless man builds a shelter in Wicker Park
DNAinfo posted an article yesterday about Bruce Johnson, a 51-year old homeless man who had built himself a concrete block shelter from materials [...]
Meet John Holabird Jr, architect and Renaissance man
Holabird & Root, one of Chicago's storied architectural firms, began in the 1880s and during most of its history a Holabird was an active principa [...]
Yo’s on vacation, light posting ahead
I'm out of town beginning today through next week at my annual family gathering on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This will be the 21st consec [...]
Chicago foreclosures drop sharply as US activity ticks up
RealtyTrac has just released its July 2013 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report. The report shows foreclosure filings – default notices, scheduled aucti [...]
A look back at economists’ Chicago home price predictions
Five years ago today we mentioned that the New York Times had asked economists to "share the data they use to figure out how much houses in region [...]
YoChicago reached nearly 70K unique visitors in July
The volume of visitors to established real estate websites is as good an index as any of the state of the housing market.
YoChicago had 69,842 [...]
Chicago ranks 20th for high-income educated young women
When I was in high school, a reminder that "the light at the end of the tunnel is Jersey City" was richly ironic.
Now that light, according to [...]
Are real estate agents wrong about client loyalty?
I shudder to think about how many real agents I've spoken with over the years, from all parts of the country. However diverse they might be in the [...]
Woodstock Institute makes foreclosure data more accessible
The Woodstock Institute self-describes as "a leading nonprofit research and policy organization in the areas of fair lending, wealth creation, and [...]
Is the north lakefront rental market getting softer?
As of yesterday evening there were 616 MLS-listed homes and condos for rent in the six north lakefront ZIP Codes that we track periodically: 60614 [...]
Bruce Graham, a self-described Chicago architect
When he was a child Bruce Graham's dream was to build cities. As the Chief of Design for the Chicago office of Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Graham l [...]
Higher rents, lower vacancies forecast for Chicago
Marcus & Millichap just released its Apartment Research Market Report for the second quarter of 2013. Free registration is required to access the [...]
Chicago’s most authoritative neighborhood boundary descriptions
If you spend much time searching for real estate in Chicago, or reading about it at local websites, you'll see that confusion over neighborhood bo [...]
Blair Kamin is back in Chicago
Blair Kamin, the Tribune's award-winning architecture critic, has spent the past year at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. He's apparently back in Chicago a [...]
Who’s a paid-to-be-who in Chicagoland real estate
Here's the lead-in to Chicago Agent Magazine's Who's Who in Chicagoland Real Estate 2013 feature:
The following people not only have exemplary lead [...]
RealtyTrac: Illinois foreclosures average 817 days
RealtyTrac released its Midyear 2013 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report today.
Some relevant excerpts:
Florida posted the nation’s highest sta [...]