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: Closing Real Estate in ChicagoTop 5 Cities Surviving the "Housing Bust"
By Peter Olson, Esq.
And frankly if you actually look at the Chicago/Illinois figures instead of the falsely alarming headlines, we ain't so bad here. Beneath the headline announcing a 27% drop in IL home sales the other day was this:
The median price of a home in Chicago increased 5.4 percent in the first quarter, however, to $295,000 from $280,000. Condominiums prices in Chicago moved up a hefty 8.6 percent, the Realtor group said.
Full post as published by Closing Real Estate in Chicago on May 10, 2008 (boomark / email).
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