Chicago Metro Area Real Estate
A Better Buying Experience
Here are the 2014 Q1 statistics for ultra-luxury ($3M+) homes in Chicago along with the ultra-luxury homes for sale. Schedule a showing online! The number of Chicago homes that sold for $3 million or higher was up 166.7% in the first quarter.* 16 such homes sold compared to 6 a year earlier. In March I […]
Chicago’s Case-Shiller Index for April is up 10.7% from April 2013. It’s the 18th consecutive month it’s been up compared to a year earlier. It rose 2.0% from March. It’s back to its November 2002 level. The Case-Shiller Index for Chicago is based on resales of houses in the Chicago Metro Area. It’s published with […]
The inventory of listed Gold Coast condos for sale in May was up for the first time in several years.* There were 259 condos for sale in Gold Coast in May up 11% from May 2013 when there were 223 condos for sale. In December I wrote about how the inventory of Gold Coast condos […]
The median sale price for River North condos for the past 12 months is up 3.2% from a year ago at $375,500.* It’s up 25.2% from 3 years ago and down only 3.9% from 2008. The inventory of listed River North condos for sale is down 3.8%. The inventory is down 75% from May 2009. […]
The median sale price of listed 2 bedroom condos sold in the first quarter in Chicago was up 28.9% from 2013.* The median sale price was $290,000 compared with $225,000 a year earlier. As shown below, this is the 7th quarter in a row that the quarterly median sale price for Chicago 2 bedroom condos […]
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