Tag: News
Chicago-area home prices up 7% year-over-year in July
From a CoreLogic news release:
Home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, increased 7.4 percent in July 2014 compared to July 2013. [...]
North Shore – Barrington area home price growth is moderating
The following arrived via a news release from the North Shore – Barrington Association of Realtors:
Home prices on the North Shore continued to [...]
Chicago ranks highest in distressed property sales
The following arrived via news release from CoreLogic:
Distressed sales (REO and short sales) accounted for 11.4 percent of total home sales in [...]
Apply for the 21st Annual Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards
Applications are now open for the 21st Annual Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards (CNDA).
The CNDAs recognize innovation and best practi [...]
YoChicago’s taking a day off
YoChicago won't be posting about Chicago real estate today, but will resume tomorrow.
I returned to Chicago late Sunday after a five-day br [...]
YoChicago reaches record numbers in July
According to our server logs, YoChicago had 104,196 unique visitors in July. That's the first time we've passed the 100K mark in a month, and it r [...]
Number of MLS-listed downtown rentals on the rise
There are currently 994 homes, apartments and condos listed for rent in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in the 14 downtown Chicago ZIP Codes th [...]
Chicago-area home price increases outpace national average
CoreLogic released its June Home Price Index (HPI) report yesterday. Home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, increased 7.5 percent in [...]
YoChicago at YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and Twitter
More than two-thirds of the more than 85,000 unique visitors to YoChicago each month are new to the site, and only 14% of our visitors come direct [...]
YoChicago launches condominium review series
Late last year we began a series of apartment reviews and they've proven popular, contributing to a more than 70% year-over-year increase in our t [...]
Available MLS-listed rentals at a high on North Lakefront
As of late yesterday there were 832 homes and condos listed for rent in local Multiple Listing Service in ZIP Codes 60614, 60657, 60613, 60640, 60 [...]
Question of the day – who’s getting the supervouchers?
Crain's Chicago Business reported yesterday that the Chicago Housing Authority is issuing "supervouchers" that enable low-income residents to rent [...]
YoChicago nears 3,000 YouTube subscribers
YoChicago has more than 2,500 videos on our primary YouTube channel, and they've been viewed more than 3.8 million times. We have far more narrate [...]
Thirty percent of mortgaged Chicago homes seriously underwater
RealtyTrac defines a mortgaged home as "seriously underwater" when "the combined loan amount secured by the property is at least 25 percent higher [...]
Foreclosure, delinquency rates down sharply in Chicago metro area
Foreclosure rates in the Chicago – Naperville - Arlington Heights metro decreased for the month of May over the same period last year, according t [...]
The Millennials are coming, perhaps
One of the few things you can say for certain about the Millennial Generation is that its membership is huge in number.
Beyond the sheer size [...]
June foreclosures at lowest levels since 2006
RealtyTrac released its Midyear 2014 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report today. The report reflects a 19% decrease in US foreclosure filings over the p [...]
Profiling homes that sell at a deep discount or at a premium
RealtyTrac released an analysis today profiling which single family homes sell at the deepest discounts and which sell at the highest premiums bas [...]
Is Pilsen under the gun?
We're not talking about the so-called hipster invasion of Pilsen, nor are we resurrecting stale debates about the threat of gentrification.
We [...]
Completed foreclosures plummet in metro Chicago area
CoreLogic released its May National Foreclosure Report yesterday. According to CoreLogic, for the month of May 2014, there were 47,000 completed f [...]