Curated daily roundup of real estate market news affecting Chicagoland buyers and sellers, with commentary from Team Goddard.
Here's a quirk of living in the northwest suburbs: two neighbors on the same Bartlett street can have completely different property tax appeal deadlines. One might be in Cook County's Hanover Township,...
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There's a number every lender, financial planner and well-meaning parent eventually throws at you: 30%. Keep your housing costs at or below 30% of your gross income and you're "affordable." It's the...
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Nobody has ever walked into a Bartlett split-level, sniffed the air, and said, "Ah, radon." That's the whole problem with the stuff. It's colorless, odorless, and arrives through the same basement floor...
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Here's the sentence the remodeling industry would prefer you skim past: almost no home improvement pays you back more than you spend on it. A local team's roundup this week put it...
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Here's a staging truth nobody puts on a Pinterest board: in a few weeks, most of your buyers will see your house in the dark. Daylight saving time ends Sunday, November 1,...
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Last month the City of Chicago cut the ribbon on The Bellwether at 79 W. Monroe Street, the first finished office-to-housing conversion in the Loop. It took a 121-year-old, 14-story office building...
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Here's a question nobody asks at the bank, but should: how is your contractor going to bill you? One firm number up front, or a deposit, then rough-in, then cabinets, then the...
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California voters are being asked this fall whether their state should borrow money and lend it to homebuyers for down payments (that's Proposition 37 on their ballot). Illinois skipped the referendum. The...
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Most people read their HOA documents the same way they read software license agreements: scroll, sigh, sign. That's a mistake in Illinois, where a condo or homeowners association can do things to...
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Every buyer who walks a listing with a forest preserve behind it does the same thing. They go straight past the kitchen, open the back slider, look at the trees, and say...
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