Curated daily roundup of real estate market news affecting Chicagoland buyers and sellers, with commentary from Team Goddard.
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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Every house hunter in the northwest suburbs eventually asks the same question, usually while standing in someone's kitchen pretending to admire the backsplash: "How far is the train?" It's a better question...
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A housing reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer just published the most honest confession you will read this fall: after interviewing dozens of buyers, she bought her own house and still got burned....
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Realtor.com has circled a week on the calendar: Sunday, September 27 through Saturday, October 3. According to its annual study, that's the best week of 2026 to buy a home, both nationally...
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Every closing in Illinois has a line item that surprises somebody. It isn't the commission, and it isn't the title insurance. It's the transfer tax: a small, very old toll the state...
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Here's something that surprises almost every buyer we work with: the town on your mailing address tells you surprisingly little about where your kids will go to school. In the northwest suburbs,...
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The most consequential real estate news in the suburbs often arrives wearing a name tag that says Item 26-2425.That was the identifier attached to a recent DuPage County Development Committee action certifying...
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Seven percent is the kind of mortgage rate that can make a perfectly sensible buyer close the calculator and go reorganize the garage instead. But after the average 30-year fixed rate touched...
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A higher property assessment can feel like a bill arriving before breakfast, but the two are not the same thing. An assessment is the value the county uses in the tax formula;...
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