Curated daily roundup of real estate market news affecting Chicagoland buyers and sellers, with commentary from Team Goddard.
If you've been refreshing rate trackers this week hoping for a break, I've got mixed news. The average 30-year fixed mortgage climbed to 6.58% for the week ending July 23 (that's Freddie...
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For years, Chicago real estate got treated like the responsible older sibling at the party — dependable, a little dull, never the one making headlines. Meanwhile Austin, Phoenix, and Boise were doing...
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If you bought a house in Bartlett or Carol Stream back in 2023 and locked in something in the 7s, you've probably had a browser tab open to a refinance calculator ever...
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Every few years, Washington passes something with “Housing” in the title, slaps a bipartisan bow on it, and everybody goes home feeling productive. So when the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act...
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Here's something you don't hear at a backyard barbecue in Bartlett very often: the housing market is tilting toward buyers, and almost nobody seems to have noticed. While the headlines still shout...
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Here's a number worth sitting with for a second: $495,633. That was the average residential sale price across DuPage and Cook counties for the first full week of July, according to Shaw...
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There's a quiet pattern showing up in the Chicago sales data this summer, and if you live out here in the western suburbs, you should probably know about it before your neighbor...
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Let's start with a number that should make every homeowner in the western suburbs sit up straight: Chicago's detached homes hit a median price of $505,000 in June, up a remarkable 14.8%...
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If you've been house hunting around Bartlett or Carol Stream this summer and walked away feeling like you needed elbows and a game plan just to land a showing, you're not imagining...
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Every week, a quiet little report comes out that most buyers and sellers never read — the running tally of Chicago's biggest construction permits. It's not glamorous. Nobody's forwarding it around the...
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