6/26/14
According to RealtyTrac, the Chicago metro area had 9,975 “zombie foreclosures” in Q2 2014, ranking it third in the nation. The following is from...
6/25/14
Each year Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies publishes a much-anticipated and widely-read report on The State of the Nation’s Housing. The 2013...
6/24/14
The answer to the headline question depends on which data source you’re looking at. According to the Illinois Association of Realtors (IAR), the volume...
6/10/14
According to a just-released RealtyTrac report, Illinois had the fourth highest rate of foreclosure activity in the nation. Per RealtyTrac: Illinois foreclosure activity decreased...
6/9/14
For those among you who have an affinity for watching grass grow and paint peel, we offer a video view of the Tilt at...
6/4/14
CoreLogic‘s April Home Price Index reflects prices that have continued to rise, and CoreLogic is projecting that prices will rise nationally 6.3 percent (+/-...
6/2/14
If all you knew about Chicago’s demographic and racial mix is what you saw at your local street fair, would you have an accurate...
5/30/14
The following market update arrived via a news release from RE/MAX Northern Illinois: The Chicago-area luxury home market continued to gain ground over the...
5/29/14
According to RealtyTrac data, the median sales price of U.S. residential properties — including both distressed and non-distressed sales — was $172,000 in April,...
5/7/14
CoreLogic released its March Home Price Index (HPI) report yesterday: In Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights, home prices, including distressed sales, increased by 11.3 percent in March...
4/24/14
It’s been 10 years since journalist Bill Bishop began writing about “the big sort” and five years since the publication of his book. Amazon...
4/24/14
Ukrainian Village is probably the most commonly misspelled neighborhood name in Chicago. Is that changing as a result of the saturation coverage of recent...
4/17/14
RealtyTrac today released its U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report for the first quarter of 2014. Thirty percent of all Illinois homes with a...
4/4/14
In the coming months we’ll be continuing our efforts to make it easier for you to identify and avoid some of Craiglist’s worst apartment...
4/2/14
Sailrock in South Caicos has begun construction on the Villas at Great House, the primary resort component associated with Sailrock. The first phase of...
3/27/14
RealtyTrac released its February 2014 U.S. Residential and Foreclosure Sales Reportearlier today. Here are some of the metrics for Illinois: The number of homes...
3/26/14
Redfin recently polled 435 of its agents, and 65% of them expect the home purchase market this year to be more competitive than it...
3/26/14
CoreLogic just released its March MarketPulse report (PDF). The report examines the risk of another housing bubble in light of large price gains in...
3/24/14
There have been recent rumors that architect Jeanne Gang may be involved in a new tower at Lakeshore East, where Aqua has made quite...
3/21/14
If you’re trying to understand the outlook for rental housing you’ll want to spend some time with the wealth of data and analysis provided...