Curated daily roundup of real estate market news affecting Chicagoland buyers and sellers, with commentary from Team Goddard.
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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Until this summer, Illinois shared a strange distinction with exactly one other state. If your homeowners insurance company decided to raise your premium 25%, there was no regulator anywhere who could tell...
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Ask ten people at a Bartlett backyard barbecue how real estate commissions work now, and you will get eleven answers. One neighbor swears commissions were "banned." Another heard buyers have to pay...
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A Skokie resident told village officials this summer that their parents are selling their out-of-state home to move closer, and the plan was simple: build a small place in the backyard. The...
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There's a particular moment every longtime homeowner hits. You're standing at the bottom of the stairs with a laundry basket, looking up at thirteen steps you've climbed a hundred thousand times, and...
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Every national closing-cost guide says the same thing: budget 2% to 5% of your loan amount. That's a fine number for a napkin. It's also useless if you're buying in Bartlett, because...
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Here's a number nobody puts on the listing sheet: the cost of physically getting your stuff from the old house to the new one. Buyers budget down to the dollar for the...
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