Without further ado, here are the September home sales numbers. From the Illinois Association of Realtors: The city of Chicago saw a 3.2 percent year-over-year home sales decrease in September 2016 with 2,336 sales, down from 2,414 in September 2015. The median price of a home in the city of Chicago in September 2016 was […]
How’d the Chicago market hold up in August? Inventory remained extremely low statewide and in the city of Chicago. From the Illinois Association of Realtors: The city of Chicago saw a 2.6 percent year-over-year home sales increase in August 2016 with 2,770 sales, up from 2,701 in August 2015. The median price of a home […]
It was a little delayed, due to my vacation, but here is the update on the July market. From the Illinois Association of Realtors: The city of Chicago saw an 11.9 percent year-over-year home sales decrease in July 2016 with 2,714 sales, down from 3,082 in July 2015. The median price of a home in […]
The Centrum Lakeview, a luxury boutique apartment building, at 1714 W. Roscoe in Lakeview just finished construction and is now leasing. Anyone who takes the Brown Line from the north side has watched this building go up because it is right next to the Paulina Brown Line stop. It has 39 units and just 7 parking spaces, but the […]
Listings for the new luxury high rise being marketed as the “Code of Luxury” at 808 N. Wells in the Gold Coast just came on the market. I consider this Gold Coast as it is north of Chicago Avenue. The building is from Smithfield, the developer of 30 W. Oak, the highly successful modern boutique high rise […]
It seems that several times a month there are announcements for new apartment buildings all over the Green Zone, and sometimes, even outside of the Green Zone. Last week, Lennar announced yet another new building, this time in River North. The bulging pipeline of new apartments in River North is swelling a little bit more. […]
This is one of the hottest housing markets that Chicago has ever seen…in the Green Zone. The entire city isn’t as hot as it was in 2005-2007, but in certain Green Zone neighborhoods, the price is well past peak with multiple offers, bidding wars, buying sight unseen and other nonsense association with super hot housing […]
As we already knew, things are hot, hot, hot. I know this “news” is from last week, but it’s our duty to chatter about the monthly sales numbers so here it is. From the Illinois Association of Realtors: The city of Chicago saw a 7.9 percent year-over-year home sales increase in April 2016 with 2,628 […]