Curated daily roundup of real estate market news affecting Chicagoland buyers and sellers, with commentary from Team Goddard.
Here's a number worth sitting with: this July, the Thornton reservoir, one of the giant stormwater holding tanks under the Chicago area, hit 94% of its 7.4-billion-gallon capacity. That's the fullest it...
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There is a state program that will hand an Illinois homebuyer up to $15,000 toward a down payment, charge zero interest on it, and not ask for a single monthly payment until...
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There is a moment in every home inspection where the inspector goes quiet, crouches down next to the electrical panel, and takes a photo. Not two photos. One, very deliberate photo. If...
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If you opened a homeowners insurance renewal this summer, read the number, and then read it again — you are not imagining it, and you are definitely not alone. Illinois now has...
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The envelope that landed in Wayne Township mailboxes on August 27 is probably the most ignored piece of mail in DuPage County. It isn't a bill. Nothing is due. There's no payment...
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Every seller asks the staging question in roughly the same shape: "Do I really need to spend two thousand dollars renting furniture for a house I'm trying to get out of?" It's...
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Every few months a commission headline crosses the wire and somebody in Bartlett forwards it to me with three question marks. This week it was two of them: a Washington state regulator...
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There are ten homes for rent in Bartlett right now. Ten. In the same MLS pull, there are seventy-seven single-family and attached homes for sale. That ratio — roughly one rental for...
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The number that surprises people at an Illinois closing table is almost never the lawyer's bill. It's the property tax credit — a five-figure line item on plenty of Chicagoland deals that...
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Nearly every list of first-time homebuyer mistakes says the same five things: get pre-approved, don't chase the lowest rate, don't skip the inspection, don't drain your savings, don't buy a car in...
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