Biggest Discounts June Update

Let’s check in on our stats once again and find out where buyers are currently getting the biggest discounts off asking price. If you are a potential buyer, this will help you to know which neighborhoods may be softer in terms of sale price discounts off list price, and help you know where to look for potential bargains.

In the chart below, we have taken all sales data from last month in the Chicago area and sorted it by city/town. We calculated the overall difference between the sale price and the list price. Note that this reflects the final list price, after all price drops in the listing. Any areas with fewer than ten sales are excluded from the top and bottom ten rankings, but interested readers may download the full data summary in Excel format (xls).

Here are the top ten areas with the largest overall discount:

The overall discount moved up just a bit in June from our previous update in April, rising to 6.2% from 6.1%. The southside city of Harvey topped this month’s list for the largest discounts, with buyers getting a whopping 14% off the final list price.

Here are the ten areas with the smallest discounts:

No area had an average sale price higher than the average list. The closest any place came was Burbank, where buyers only got 1.8% off the final list price.

Is the area you’re shopping not on either the top 10 or bottom 10? No problem, just download the full rankings in Excel format and hit the “FullSummary” sheet.

Of the 4,938 sales we tracked in the 1-month period, 1,156 homes (23%!) sold for 10% or more off the asking price, while 321 homes sold for 5% or more above the asking price.