It’s time for our monthly check-in of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (HPI). The Case-Shiller data is generally considered to be the most reliable measure of overall home price changes for a region, since they only consider repeat sales of homes when calculating their index, instead of looking at all the homes that sold in… Read More
Redfin Chicago-area agent Greg Whelan ranks #16 and Patrick Lusk ranks #18 out of all 8,005 buyer’s agents who closed deals in the greater Chicago area for January, February, & March 2011! We pulled these numbers from MRED, the database for real estate transactions and listings in Illinois and ranked agents who represented home-buyers of single-family… Read More
It depends on which side you ask. Spring has officially arrived in Chicago, with new listings sprouting up like tulips, bringing a notable increase in inventory. However, buyers are still somewhat hesitant, even as the market begins to thaw. So what’s going on with Chicago’s housing market? Are things improving, or are we still in… Read More