Tag: Market conditions
November sales stats a sign of market stability?
The following report of Chicago metro-area home sales activity is from RE/MAX Northern Illinois:
Home sales activity in the metropolitan Chicago re [...]
Housing fraud on the rise
Ken Harney, a nationally syndicated real estate columnist, writes in the Daily Herald:
Could today’s seductive conditions in the housing market — s [...]
An update on Bridgeport’s Union Lofts
It's been nearly 10 years since we first wrote about Union Lofts in our now-defunct New Homes Magazine. At the time, March of 2002, forty of the 7 [...]
Year-end flurry of downtown high-rise sales
Crain's is reporting the sale of Flair Tower, 222 W Erie St, and 1212 S Michigan Ave, both rental apartment buildings. A sale may also be in the w [...]
Chicago real estate searches hit historic low at Google
John Battelle characterized aggregate search activity on the Web as a "database of intentions," a treasure trove of data about where people's inte [...]
Greenview Gardens, a Rogers Park condo price collapse
I stopped by Greenview Gardens in Rogers Park, 7633 – 39 N Greenview, to check the condition of the building.
What prompted my visit was a ste [...]
Making a killing in Rogers Park condos
Back in 1992 we published Coops & Condos, a reference work for real estate agents. It contained accurate information on every North side lakefront [...]
Case-Shiller – Chicago condo prices flat month-over-month
It's Case-Shiller Tuesday, and the results are in for September home price trends.
The seasonally-adjusted index for metro-area Chicago single-fami [...]
Google Street View’s Humboldt Park time capsule
View the 500 block of N Central Park Ave in Google Street View and you'll see a very different scene than the one, above, that I saw early yesterd [...]
Prices go south at North Beach Lofts in Rogers Park
North Beach Lofts, the conversion of an old Duxler Tire warehouse at 1225 W Morse, was one of the more successful projects completed in Rogers Pa [...]
New North Lawndale listing at a mortgage fraudster’s condo
We've occasionally focused on mortgage fraud on Chicago's South Side, but the West Side has also had more than its share.
Today's new listings emai [...]
Grunsfeld home in Glencoe sells 28% below 2001 price
Ernest A ("Tony") Grunsfeld III, who died in April, designed many North Shore homes in a modernist style. In his oral history at the Art Institute [...]
Median selling prices take a hit on northwest side
The last time I wrote for YoChicago, I highlighted several neighborhoods whose sellers were holding out for a higher price -- in other words, neig [...]
Are parts of the West Loop poised for housing price appreciation?
Price appreciation in Chicago real estate? In this market? Am I out of my mind to be talking about appreciation?
For more than a decade Chicago [...]
Few bright spots in third-quarter downtown condo sales
Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily reports that Appraisal Research Counselors summary of downtown Chicago condo sales in the third quarter had few [...]
Crain’s – rents, occupancies fall in downtown luxury buildings
We've recently noted that a number of downtown high-rises, including ones in River North and Streeterville, have been offering incentives to new r [...]
Cook, Lake, DuPage condo sales surge, median prices fall
According to data just released (PDF) by the Illinois Association of Realtors (IAR), the number of condo sale in the 3rd quarter of 2011 increased 16. [...]
The views from Golub’s proposed South Loop apartments
Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily reported earlier today that Golub & Co. is buying the southeast corner of 9th and State Street from the city, an [...]
Lincoln Park, West Town condo sellers holding out for price – and getting it
Owners of condominiums and single family homes in one of Chicago's priciest neighborhoods, Lincoln Park, have not, on average, settled for lower s [...]
Strong third quarter single-family sales on Chicago’s north side
The three months ending September 30 were a boon to single family home sales in several key north side neighborhoods, including Edgewater (up 91% [...]