3/29/11
Home values got off to “a dismal start” this year, according to the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report from Standard & Poor’s. Prices...
2/23/11
From Appraisal Research Counselors‘ 4Q 2010 Downtown Chicago Residential Benchmark Report: For the 4Q 2010 report, Appraisal Research Counselors conducted a survey of closed...
2/23/11
Unlike the imaginary tree falling in the forest, a falling Case-Shiller index often makes enough noise to affect home buyer behavior. Should it? An...
2/22/11
Chicago single-family home values reached a new post-bubble low in December, falling 7.4% throughout the year to values not seen since March 2002, according...
1/25/11
The value of Chicago homes dropped 2.2% from October to November, and 7.6% year-over-year, according to the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices from Standard...
1/11/11
Standard & Poor’s new review of Case-Shiller 2010 home value data doesn’t have a lot of good news for Chicago. In fact, it devotes...
12/29/10
Economist Gary Shilling checks 26 trendlines from Case-Shiller, the National Association of Realtors, Core Logic, the Census Bureau, and more, and determines home prices...
12/28/10
“The double-dip is almost here, as six cities set new lows for the period since the 2006 peaks. There is no good news in...
12/2/10
The lowest-priced tier of homes in the Chicago region have fallen in value by more than 42 percent from their peak in 2007, this...
11/30/10
Overall home values in Chicago fell 6 percent from September 2009 to September 2010, and are currently down 26 percent from their peak in...
10/26/10
Chicago condo values were down more than 7 percent in August compared to one year earlier, and home values overall dipped 3 percent, according...
9/28/10
Chicago home values rose 1 percent from June to July but dipped 1.7 percent year-over-year, according to the S&P / Case-Shiller July 2010 Home...
8/31/10
After hitting some serious lows in March 2010, home values in Chicago went up in April, May, and now June, according to new S&P...
7/27/10
The last Tuesday of every month marks the release of the eagerly-awaited Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. Chicago-area condominium prices for May...
6/29/10
Condo prices in Chicago jumped 5.2% in April from the March 2010 level, on a non-seasonally adjusted basis according to Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller...
5/25/10
It’s easy to feel like Charlie Brown and the football when it comes to these monthly market reports. Yesterday the Illinois Association of Realtors...
4/27/10
The most exciting piece of news about the February S&P / Case-Shiller Home Price Index came out yesterday, when the index’s committee advised everyone...
4/12/10
From the Sunday New York Times: The question now is whether a strong case has been built for a new bull market since the...
4/6/10
Standard & Poor’s simply couldn’t take the strain of a million real estate junkies flooding its Web site last Tuesday. We were all searching...
3/30/10
The nation’s top 20 home markets experienced the smallest annual price drop in almost three years this January, according to today’s Standard & Poor’s...