Curated daily roundup of real estate market news affecting Chicagoland buyers and sellers, with commentary from Team Goddard.
There is a house on a side street near the Bartlett depot with a wraparound porch, a slate-gray roofline that predates every subdivision within three miles, and a kitchen that has not...
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There are 512 homes for sale right now across Bartlett, Carol Stream, Streamwood, Hanover Park, Bloomingdale, Schaumburg and Elgin. Fifty of them advertise both a first-floor bedroom and a first-floor full bath....
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If you own a home in Bartlett or Carol Stream, there is a piece of mail sitting in your kitchen right now that you probably tossed in the "deal with it later"...
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Two sellers close on the same $400,000 house on the same day. One of them writes a check for $1,800 at closing. The other writes one for $600. The only difference between...
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There is a deadline three days from now that will shape what your subdivision looks like in 2029, and almost nobody outside a village hall is paying attention to it. August 31,...
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On April 1st of this year, Chicago quietly did something the suburbs have been arguing about for a decade: it made backyard coach houses and basement apartments legal across most of the...
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Here is the uncomfortable truth about remodeling: almost nothing you do to your house pays you back a hundred cents on the dollar when you sell it. The national Cost vs. Value...
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Drive any street in Bartlett or Streamwood and start counting the white PVC pipes running up the side of the house from the foundation to above the roofline. You will run out...
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Here is a number that reframes how you should think about buying new in the northwest suburbs: across the twelve towns we track most closely, there are 100 new-construction homes on the...
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Every national article about home equity borrowing ends with the same shrug: "It depends on rates." One of the pieces that surfaced this week even told readers to brace for the Fed...
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