10/6/15
A broker-tipster emailed us yesterday expressing skepticism about published apartment vacancy rates and stating that “the MLS rental inventory is HUGE. I mean HUGE.”...
6/7/15
The number of homes, apartments and condos currently listed for rent in the local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) stands at 729 in ZIP Codes...
3/23/15
Today’s Crain’s brings this apparently-startling statistic: Indeed, just a few miles from the heart of the Loop lies a neighborhood that, despite a rich...
1/8/15
According to the recently-released CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI) report, home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, increased 5.5 percent in November 2014 compared to...
12/24/14
Planned Property owns and manages 30 apartment buildings in prime River North, Gold Coast, Lincoln Park and Lakeview East locations. Join us in the...
12/11/14
RealtyTrac just released its US Foreclosure Market Report for November 2014, which shows foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions —...
11/26/14
RealtyTrac just released its October 2014 Residential & Foreclosure Sales Report. According to the report: … the median sales price of U.S. single family...
11/10/14
According to our server logs, YoChicago reached nearly 94,700 unique visitors in October. That’s a 10% decline from the more than 104,000 visitors we...
11/5/14
Home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, increased 5.6 percent in September 2014 compared to September 2013, according to the just-released CoreLogic Home Price Index...
10/28/14
There were 946 homes, apartments and condos listed for rent in the local MLS yesterday in the six North Lakefront Zip Codes that we...
10/28/14
According to 2010 US Census data, 25- to 34-year olds accounted for 13.4% of the nation’s population and 17.97% of the City of Chicago’s....
10/27/14
We began publishing reviews of Chicago’s apartment buildings just about a year ago. The blistering pace of development since that time has resulted in...
10/23/14
Foreclosure rates in the Chicago area decreased for the month of August over the same period last year, according to newly released data from...
10/20/14
More than a dozen real estate brokers have told me that the for-sale market slowed perceptibly and dramatically beginning several months ago. None of...
10/20/14
As he often does, Joel Kotkin looks past wishful thinking to the numbers: It’s an idea echoed everywhere from “Friends” to “Girls”: Young people...
10/16/14
In October of last year Chicago had the 3rd highest foreclosure rate in the nation among metro areas with a population greater than 200,000....
10/15/14
The following arrived via news release from CoreLogic: Cash sales made up 32.9 percent of total home sales in July 2014, the lowest share...
9/25/14
The following arrived via a news release from Redfin: This past August, typically one of the hottest selling months of the year, the number...
9/19/14
The number of homes and condos listed for rent in the 14 downtown ZIP Codes that we tracked rose 14% from 6 weeks ago,...
9/10/14
The following is from a CoreLogic news release: Cash sales made up 33 percent of total home sales in June 2014, the lowest share...