I’m currently working with a couple looking to buy a home in a specific elementary school district. Every day I run a search for new homes coming on the market in that elementary school district. As far as I can tell, buyers who prefer to look on their own online in the Chicago area can’t narrow down their searches to school districts with a couple of exceptions.
I reviewed the search criteria on Realtor.Com, ColdwellBanker.Com, REMAXNorthernIllinois.Com, DreamTown.Com, and ChicagoTribune.Com. I didn’t see any options for buyers to search in a specific school district.
BairdWarner.Com, my broker’s website, let’s users search by high school district or high school name, but doesn’t provide searches at the elementary or junior high level.
Trulia.Com lets users search in some Chicago area elementary and high school districts, but not all of them. In addition, when I ran a search in the elementary school district my buyers are looking in, it only showed 4 homes for sale. I’ve shown them 8 homes in that elementary school district and there are several others for sale.
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The other reason why school districts are important is for resale value. It’s part of the whole, hackneyed but true real estate maxim, “Location, location, location.” So even though I don’t have kids & never planned to have them, knowing that when I bought into Barrington I was buying in a community with good schools was important to me for resale over the long haul.
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