May 2017 Market Report

April slowed down in the Chicago real estate market. We took a look at the numbers, and here’s what we found: Home sales dropped from a year earlier, and median prices grew at a smaller pace than in some recent months, according to data from the Illinois...

April 2017 Market Report

Home sales kept pumping at 2017’s healthy pace last month, according to data released by the Illinois Association of Realtors. In the nine-county metropolitan area, 9,661 homes sold in March, up 13.1 percent from a year earlier. In Chicago, 2,478 homes sold last...

March 2017 Market Report

In much of the country, both new and existing home sales increased in January. This continues a trend first noticed in an extremely busy December, and also signals we are seeing more than just a post-election and World Series bump. Now is the right time to buy with...

February 2017 Market Report

In much of the country, both new and existing home sales increased in January. This continues a trend first noticed in an extremely busy December, and also signals we are seeing more than just a post-election and World Series bump. Indeed, Chicago came out of the...

2017 January Market Guide

It was an unusually warm real estate market for December. In the last few months of 2016, signs of strength emerged in Chicago’s long-suffering real estate market, pointing toward further strengthening in the early months of 2017. In Chicago, the number of homes...