Tag: Trends
Millennials say suburbs are their ideal place to live
Anyone who wants to make an intelligent case for the "death of the suburbs" needs to confront the fact that more people, including young people, p [...]
Is Chicago falling into the nether regions of the Rust Belt?
Chicago ranked 43nd among the 51 largest metro areas – four places behind Detroit – on an index of the health of its business service economy, acc [...]
YoChicago visitor count at a new high in January
YoChicago reached 53,686 unique visitors in January, a 22.4% increase over last January, and a new high, surpassing last April's level. During cal [...]
Get all the real estate news at YoChicago’s news page
This has been an eventful week in Chicago real estate. The Chicago Plan Commission approved the Wolf Point development. A new student housing high [...]
Is Chicago designed to encourage drunk driving?
Among the nation's top 25 cities, Chicago ranks near the bottom in traffic fatalities per 1,000 people, and has a middling rank in the number of t [...]
YoChicago traffic up sharply in 2012
According to Google Analytics, the number of unique visitors to YoChicago during 2012 was up 24.7% over 2011, and 86.8% over 2010. We reached more [...]
New apartments are getting smaller in major cities
We've previously posted on the trend to micro-apartments. According to Multifamily Executive, one city is bucking the trend:
Washington, D.C. i [...]
Apartment Savvy doubles down on dumb law-breaking
The Illinois Real Estate License Act makes it illegal for real estate brokers to run blind ads, i.e. ads that don't include the brokerage name, an [...]
Occupy Our Homes vs Fifth Third Bank
Almost a year ago we wondered whether Occupy Chicago was using the homeless as cannon fodder by encouraging them to occupy foreclosed homes.
A [...]
Is this Chicago’s best unexpected skyline view?
I took the above photo almost exactly a year ago, not anticipating that New City would select the North Avenue Bridge as affording the Best view o [...]
The unmet demand for smoke-free housing
Five years ago to the day today we posted the following quote:
There is a tremendous unmet demand for smoke-free housing in America, and it bog [...]
Are there pigs, wolves or kangaroos in your condo?
According to The Real Deal, New Yorkers renters and condo owners are bringing home a range of exotic pets, including "teacup pigs, wolves and even [...]
YoChicago’s most popular rental neighborhoods
Where do Chicagoans want to rent? Perhaps the best answer to that question comes via Google Analytics, which taps a database of intentions populat [...]
Micro-apartments as an alternative to roommates
Back in July New York's Mayor Bloomberg launched a competition to design and build "Micro-Units," small apartments adapted to "how New Yorkers liv [...]
Why so few Chicago roof decks?
In the past four weeks I've spent a lot of time above Chicago, in the air and on high-rise and mid-rise roof decks.
From those vantage points [...]
Chicago had largest downtown population growth from 2000 to 2010
Our local media have been taking pride in a recent US Census report (PDF) showing Chicago as the metro area with the largest numeric increase in " [...]
Quote of the day – America’s future is in the suburbs
Advocates of the proposition that dense central cities are the way of the future have a few barriers to face – facts and consumer preferences.
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Quote of the day – exurbs the fastest-growing areas
Sprawl appears to be winning the ongoing battle against urban sprawl, according to a recent post at Atlantic Cities:
The exurbs – those deconc [...]
More landlords eliminating use of rental services
It's anecdotal data only, but what I've been hearing during the past month is that a number of major landlords have been reducing or completely el [...]
Quote of the day – Chicago’s population gain just a statistical quirk
Last week the Tribune reported on Census Bureau figures showing that Chicago and other major cities had gained population between 2010 and 2011, a [...]