12/4/16
RentlLife is an innovative new website that provides comprehensive, accurate, unbiased and up-to-date info about buildings and apartments, including exact rents, occupancy dates, detailed...
8/25/15
Early last week I received a follow-up email pitch from Dan Willenborg, Co-founder and CEO of AptAmigo.com, inquiring about ways we might “work together.”...
8/13/15
Every so often we charter a helicopter and fly around the city taking shots of new construction, the skyline and whatever else grabs our...
2/6/15
Yesterday’s email brought “news” of “the brand new Zumper web platform.” In its previous incarnation Zumper seemed to be nothing more than a garbage...
1/14/15
We’ve just finished crunching the numbers from our server logs for 2014. We’re pleased to report that YoChicago reached more than 753,000 unique visitors...
12/31/14
Evanston, home to Northwestern University, is an affluent, highly-educated North Shore suburb. It’s the kind of place where you’d expect landlords to avoid making...
12/1/14
If you’re working with a rental service, the odds are high that you’re not going to able to rent some of Chicago’s most desirable...
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...
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...
8/12/14
If you want to stay abreast of what’s happening in Chicago real estate you’ll have to venture beyond YoChicago and our Twitter, Facebook, YouTube...
8/11/14
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,...
8/5/14
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...
8/4/14
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...
6/30/14
The 50-story multi-use building in Streeterville that we’ve been following as 435 North Park Drive has topped out, closed in and taken on a...
6/19/14
The public relations “profession” is notorious for making shotgun pitches to websites without having even the dimmest awareness of how a particular pitch might...
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...
9/26/13
Our new apartment review pages provide a clear window, via Google Analytics, into which new buildings are generating the most interest among renters and...
9/11/13
A year ago today I spent nearly two hours in a chartered helicopter, with the doors off, circling downtown Chicago and snapping photos. I...
8/28/13
Eric Rojas, one of YoChicago’s sponsors, recently studied year-to-date sales of 2-bedroom, 2-bath condos in the portion of the West Loop west of I90/94....
8/7/13
The volume of visitors to established real estate websites is as good an index as any of the state of the housing market. YoChicago...