Real Estate Blog

Join us for a free real estate seminar on Thursday, October 15th, from 5:30pm to 7pm. It will be held at Discovery Village in Hoffman Estates and dinner will be served. Dinner starts at 5:30pm and then the presentation is from 6pm to 7pm. We will be covering the following: How's the local market in the Chicagoland area. What improvements will get you the most return on your investment. Top 3 mistakes when selling a home. What is the best time of year to sell. What to do with

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates yesterday. They will likely raise them again this year and that is because inflation is higher than what they would like to see. That is good, let's get inflation down. The downside is that when you want to bring inflation down, that means you want to slow things down. The chart below shows Chicagoland closed sales going back to 2008 (farthest data our MLS has). You can see back in August of 2008, which was in the beginning phase of t

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The Chicagoland housing market has hit its peak for the year. Prices are now trending downward and will continue to do so until we get to spring of 2027. The graph below shows showing activity on its way down as usual for this time of year. This will continue until the end of the year. Because showing activity is going down, so are closed sales. This doesn't mean it is going to be hard to sell your home but it does mean that getting what another property sold for in spring /