8/29/14
The faint of heart home buyer might think that the only way to look at River City is down. We did that, but in...
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,...
1/9/14
Here’s some bad news for home buyers who’ve been expecting rising home values to result in a broader selection of homes coming on the...
8/15/13
RealtyTrac has just released its July 2013 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report. The report shows foreclosure filings – default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions...
7/10/13
CoreLogic released its May National Foreclosure Report yesterday along with a supplement featuring quarterly shadow inventory data as of April 2013. Of the fifteen...
4/22/13
Last week the ever-informative Calculated Risk blog posted a table showing the share of the market accounted for by distressed properties, i.e. short sales...
3/6/13
We last wrote about Eastgate Village, a troubled townhome / condo development on the Near South Side, back in October of 2011. At the...
2/22/13
Rogers Park developers periodically fall prey to a state of irrational exuberance. The peak of the most recent mania had already passed in May...
2/15/13
In September of 2007 we reported that 75% of the loft condos at 123 N Sangamon in the West Loop were under contract and...
2/8/13
After hearing of a short sale that elicited 33 bids – 22 of them cash offers – within a week, I reached out to...
2/7/13
Well-located, attractively-priced properties, especially if they’re distressed, are once again generating a frenzy of activity on the part of buyers. If you doubt that,...
11/16/12
RealtyTrac released its U.S. Foreclosure Market Report for October 2012 yesterday. The report shows foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions...
11/15/12
The following market update arrived via a news release from RE/MAX Northern Illinois: The seven-county metropolitan Chicago real estate market delivered a strong performance...
10/26/12
The following market update arrived via a news release from RE/MAX Northern Illinois: The residential segment of the metropolitan Chicago real estate market extended...
6/2/12
It could be just a case of a spring market up-tick, but a number of neighborhoods have seen the inventory of available homes drop...
4/17/12
The following market update arrived via a news release from RE/MAX Northern Illinois: A RE/MAX analysis of March home sales activity in the metropolitan...
4/11/12
CoreLogic has just released its April MarketPulse report (pdf), with a raft of statistical data from February and some analytical insights that are worth...
4/5/12
CoreLogic released its February Home Price Index yesterday, and once again the Chicago numbers are down: In the Chicago-Joliet-Naperville area, home prices, including distressed...
3/16/12
The following market update arrived via a news release from RE/MAX Northern Illinois: Home sales activity in the metropolitan Chicago real estate market continued...
3/9/12
According to CoreLogic’s March MarketPulse report (PDF), the Chicago-Joliet-Naperville CBSA saw 3,622 home sales in January of 2012, down 10.4% from the previous year....