11/13/12
It’s not surprising that the neighborhoods with the highest incomes have weathered the housing downturn better than the ones with lower incomes. But Lincoln...
11/12/12
It’s been a wrenching few years to watch price and volume movements in many of Chicago’s neighborhoods. These metrics are prone to doing strange...
11/9/12
Several neighborhoods that had seen a steep decline in median selling prices in recent quarters saw an equally steep rise last quarter. The effect...
11/5/12
The third quarter of 2012 was a good one in the city’s condo market: sales volume increased by almost 12%, and median selling prices...
8/29/12
The level of housing starts in the U.S. (data not available at the city or county level) has increased noticeably over the past 12...
8/28/12
One thing to watch in the Case-Shiller home price index is the tiered breakout. S&P assigns each pair in the paired-sale analysis to the...
8/27/12
The bad news first: the median selling price of a condominium in Rogers Park last quarter was $62,500. But the good news is that...
2/23/12
Today’s front-page Tribune article on housing prices in the region reports that sales volume has been rising in each of the last seven months,...
2/16/12
In my most recent post, I wrote about how condominiums, all else equal, can fall in value farther than houses due to underwriting standards...
2/15/12
Earlier this week, I wrote about three neighborhoods — Rogers Park, Humboldt Park, and Irving Park — whose condominium markets have been pummeled in...
2/14/12
Condominiums in Rogers Park, Humboldt Park and Irving Park — three neighborhoods that once had strong new development and high selling prices — are...
2/8/12
Compiling market statistics in Chicago neighborhoods has usually meant looking at a lot of jagged (and mostly downward-pointing) lines over the last few years....
11/22/11
The last time I wrote for YoChicago, I highlighted several neighborhoods whose sellers were holding out for a higher price — in other words,...
11/8/11
Owners of condominiums and single family homes in one of Chicago’s priciest neighborhoods, Lincoln Park, have not, on average, settled for lower selling prices...
10/28/11
The three months ending September 30 were a boon to single family home sales in several key north side neighborhoods, including Edgewater (up 91%...
10/24/11
Although the Chicago-area economy has seen 8 months of increasing unemployment, the city’s housing market showed some signs of optimism in the third quarter...
7/29/11
The number of homes sold in Chicago increased slightly in the second quarter of 2011, but the pernicious influence of distressed sales has been...
2/10/11
Earlier this week, I wrote that sales were down significantly across the city in the fourth quarter of 2010 — specifically, sales of houses...
1/5/11
Amid a torrent of negative stories on housing, it is worth pointing out that housing has a function other than as an investment: namely,...
12/21/10
Even as the population of Cook County fell by 141,000 from 2000 to 2007, the number of housing units rose by 75,000. The simple...