Tag: Trends
Meet the guys who wash your windows
There are times when you see them almost nose-to-nose, but there never seems to be a way to get to know them. They're the guys who rappel down yo [...]
CoreLogic reports Chicago-area home price surge
CoreLogic is reporting that home prices nationally increased 11% year-over-year in December 2013, the 22nd consecutive month in which home prices [...]
Know your condo manager, Prairie Shores Management edition
While reading a string of negative reviews on Yelp for Prairie Shores Management I locked in on the name of Richard Holtzman. Back in the 80s Holt [...]
Chicago-area sales, prices rise in December
The following market update arrived via a news release from RE/MAX Northern Illinois:
During the final month of 2013, home sales in the seven [...]
Chicago’s five-year housing plan
Chicago's fifth five-year housing plan was presented to the City Council on Wednesday for approval. According to Chicago Real Estate Daily, the 20 [...]
Chicago drops out of top 10 metros in foreclosure rate
Miami had the highest foreclosure rate in the nation in 2013, with 3.93% of its housing units in some stage of foreclosure, according to recently- [...]
Holiday food drive in Lake View needs your help
Chicago's Lake View neighborhood is best known as a playground for the young and affluent, but it's also home to many families and elderly citizens, s [...]
Chicago sales volume up 31% year-over-year in October
According to just-released RealtyTrac data, Chicago's October residential sales counts were at an annualized pace of 182,767, 31% higher than in O [...]
Planning Chicago a/k/a incremental opportunism
Planning Chicago, published earlier this year, is a look back at the history of planning in Chicago, with a focus starting in the Mayor Richard J. [...]
Million dollar sales up 42 percent in Chicago
The following market update arrived via a news release from RE/MAX Northern Illinois:
Combined sales of attached and detached residences in C [...]
High-rise rents, occupancy, absorption rates all fall
After years of seeing rents rise, renters may be singing "happy days are here again," according to Appraisal Research Counselors data reported by Chic [...]
Are mom and dad moving to Wicker Park?
Several months ago The Wall Street Journal weighed in on the topic of baby boomers moving to trendy New York neighborhoods:
Hip urban neighbo [...]
MLS-listed downtown rentals at 3-year high
The number of homes and condos listed for rent in the local MLS continues to creep upward.
As of yesterday evening, the count stood at 1,158, [...]
Rent gains begin to slow in Chicago metro area
Marcus & Millichap has just released its Q4 Local Apartment Reports for 39 metro areas, including Chicago.
Some of the high-level findings:
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Downtown Chicago’s boomer bust
Joel Kotkin, writing at newgeography, argues that the oft-reported back-to-the-city trend among empty nesters is a myth:
Perhaps no urban legen [...]
RealtyTrac reports sales, prices rose in Chicago metro area
RealtyTrac today released its August 2013 U.S. Residential & Foreclosure Sales Report, which shows that U.S. residential properties, including sin [...]
The world is watching YoChicago videos
YouTube Analytics tells us that less than 75% of our video views originate in the United States. So far this year YoChicago videos have been watch [...]
Chicago is leading net exporter of people to New York
According to a recent piece by Aaron Renn at City Journal, the New York area lost nearly 2 million net domestic migrants in the 2000s.
Chicago did [...]
Is affordable housing unaffordable for Chicago?
Chicago Real Estate Daily recently reported that the next phase of the redevelopment of the Robert Taylor Homes is moving forward. It involves the [...]
A look back at economists’ Chicago home price predictions
Five years ago today we mentioned that the New York Times had asked economists to "share the data they use to figure out how much houses in region [...]