Curated daily roundup of real estate market news affecting Chicagoland buyers and sellers, with commentary from Team Goddard.
Homeowners insurance in Illinois has become one of the biggest surprise costs in buying or owning a home, and it is not getting cheaper. This piece explains why premiums here keep climbing,...
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Pending home sales fell 7.3% nationally in September, and the Midwest dropped 6.5% month over month, according to the National Association of REALTORS. This article looks at what that slowdown means in...
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Mortgage rate forecasts for the Chicago area are all over the map this week: one rate site advertises Chicago quotes "from 5.114%," while Money's daily survey had the average 30-year fixed at...
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The most common first-time home buyer mistakes in Illinois aren't the ones in national listicles. They're local: misreading a Chicagoland property tax bill, treating attorney review like a formality, and skipping the...
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Months of inventory is the single number that tells you whether buyers or sellers hold the cards in Bartlett, Schaumburg, Elgin and the rest of the northwest suburbs — and right now...
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Moving costs in Chicagoland drop noticeably once summer ends, and late October through early spring is when a local move from Bartlett, Elgin or Schaumburg is usually cheapest to book. Here is...
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Metra has released a draft plan to turn its 11 commuter lines into all-day "regional rail," with trains every 15 to 30 minutes and, eventually, crosstown trips straight through Union Station. Here's...
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Halloween is the one night a year when the northwest suburbs show you exactly how they live, and this article is about using it: trick-or-treat hours in Elgin, Schaumburg's 2026 decorated-house list,...
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Bartlett development news rarely arrives as a ribbon cutting. It arrives as a line item on a village agenda, a yellow public-hearing sign stuck in a field, or a legal notice in...
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Flood risk in the Chicago suburbs is less about rivers spilling over their banks and more about where the water goes when two inches of rain fall in an hour. Here's how...
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