Curated daily roundup of real estate market news affecting Chicagoland buyers and sellers, with commentary from Team Goddard.
Here's something that surprises almost every buyer we work with: the town on your mailing address tells you surprisingly little about where your kids will go to school. In the northwest suburbs,...
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The most consequential real estate news in the suburbs often arrives wearing a name tag that says Item 26-2425.That was the identifier attached to a recent DuPage County Development Committee action certifying...
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Seven percent is the kind of mortgage rate that can make a perfectly sensible buyer close the calculator and go reorganize the garage instead. But after the average 30-year fixed rate touched...
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A higher property assessment can feel like a bill arriving before breakfast, but the two are not the same thing. An assessment is the value the county uses in the tax formula;...
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Here is the number that explains the Chicagoland affordability conversation better than any headline: this morning there are 82 active residential listings in Bartlett, and exactly two of them are priced under...
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The median homeowner planning a project this year budgeted $15,000. Last year that number was $20,000. Same ambitions, a quarter less money. That's the finding buried in the 2026 Houzz & Home...
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Drive Route 59 through Bartlett and it's easy to believe the builders are everywhere. The framing crews, the model-home flags, the fresh sod laid in perfect rectangles. But zoom out to the...
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Last Saturday, downtown Elgin threw a party. La Fiesta de Elgin kicked off with an 11 a.m. car caravan through downtown, then took over Festival Park from 4:30 to 10 p.m. with...
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Here's a sentence that shouldn't be true: DuPage County added 11% more homes for sale over the past year and prices still went up nearly 5%. Usually more supply means softer prices....
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Somewhere in Bartlett right now, a homeowner is standing in a 2004 kitchen, staring at oak cabinets and doing math. They've got plenty of equity. They don't want to touch their mortgage....
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