Curated daily roundup of real estate market news affecting Chicagoland buyers and sellers, with commentary from Team Goddard.
There's an old trick for reading a housing market that no spreadsheet can match: walk into an open house and count the shoes piled by the front door. In the Chicago area...
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Here's a number that should stop you mid-scroll if you're house-hunting around here: homes in Chicagoland are going under contract in an average of 27 days. Not two months. Not "a reasonable...
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Here's something funny about the 2026 housing market: read the national headlines and you'd think everyone's sitting on their hands. Slow sales, skinny inventory, monthly costs still bumping up against records. Redfin's...
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Here's a fun exercise for a July morning: read a national real estate headline, then look out the window at what's actually happening in the western suburbs. The two don't match. And...
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Every summer for the past few years, somebody at a backyard barbecue in Bartlett corners me with the same question: "So when are mortgage rates going to drop?" And every summer I...
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If you've been half-watching the housing market this summer, waiting for some dramatic headline to tell you whether to buy, sell, or just sit tight with the AC cranked, here's the honest...
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If you've been sitting on the fence about buying your first home around here, I've got news that might get you off it: first-time buyers just hit 35% of the market nationally...
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Drive down almost any street in Bartlett, Carol Stream, or Bloomingdale and you'll see the same thing: single-family houses, one after another, on lots that were platted decades ago with one very...
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Nothing says American independence quite like checking mortgage rates over a holiday weekend. And honestly? The numbers this July 4th deserve a look — because the second half of 2026 is shaping...
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We're deep into July now, and if you've been watching the Chicagoland real estate market from the sidelines, here's your wake-up call: it's not slowing down for you. Fresh data from Redfin...
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