Curated daily roundup of real estate market news affecting Chicagoland buyers and sellers, with commentary from Team Goddard.
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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Realtor.com published its 2026 Hottest ZIP Codes list on August 10, and exactly one Illinois ZIP made it: 60187 — Wheaton, at No. 10. The Northeast and Midwest swept the whole top...
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Thirty-six percent. That's the share of a typical American family's income now going to the mortgage on a median-priced existing home, according to the NAHB Cost of Housing Index released this month....
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A story went around this month claiming the median local move in America costs $145. If you are sitting in a four-bedroom in Bartlett looking at a basement full of Rubbermaid totes,...
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On August 14, Governor Pritzker signed a flood relief bill, stood in front of storm-wrecked houses in the south suburbs, and every headline in the state ran some version of "Illinois homeowners...
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Here is a scene that plays out a dozen times a month across Bartlett, Carol Stream, and Streamwood: a buyer falls in love with a two-bedroom townhome, writes a clean offer, gets...
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If you looked up "Chicago housing market" this week, you probably landed on a number like this one: an average price around $430,000, up roughly 11.7% from a year ago, with a...
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The 30-year fixed sat at 6.77% this week, with the 15-year at 5.95%, according to Forbes Advisor's running tally. Bankrate's rate panel for the week of August 13–19 expects a modest drift...
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If you've been waiting for the housing market to do something dramatic this summer, I've got news that's either reassuring or maddening depending on your temperament: it's not. As of mid-August 2026,...
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Something interesting is happening in the suburbs, and it's not showing up on the average buyer's radar yet. According to a new report from Chicago-based investment firm Interra Realty, multifamily sales volume...
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