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- Sep 3, 2019
Huge Apartment Rent Increases Forecast For Chicago Have Not Yet Hit
Like death and taxes there’s one other inevitability in life—apartment rent increases. With the battering-ram of real estate tax...
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- Aug 27, 2019
Buyers Now King In Chicago’s Residential Market As Loan Rates Ease
Buyers are now king in Chicago’s home and condominium market while mortgage rates ease and prices continue to inch higher this summer....
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- Aug 20, 2019
Are Summer Mortgage-Rate Bargins A Harbinger Of An Autumn Recession?
Home buyers and families planning to refinance this autumn had better buckle their seat belts, because the housing market may be in for a...
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- Aug 12, 2019
Soaring Property Taxes Starting To Impact Luxury Housing Market
With mortgage interest rates now at the lowest level since November of 2016, housing gurus were expecting the home market to be booming...
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- Aug 5, 2019
‘America First’ Trade Policies Could Push Mortgage Rates Lower
President Trump’s “America First” trade policies have sparked the Federal Reserve Board to lower interest rates, which could benefit...
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- Jul 30, 2019
North Side Home Sales Rebound In 2019, But Still Lag Behind 2018
Buoyed by strong home sales in the neighborhoods of North Center, West Ridge and Lincoln Park, residential transactions across the North...
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- Jul 23, 2019
Real Estate Tax-Escrow Short Falls Plague North Side Homeowners
(Second of two articles on the impact of rising real estate tax assessments.) Most Chicago homeowners still haven’t recovered much of the...
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- Jul 16, 2019
City Needs $1 Billion, And North Side Property Values Skyrocket
(First of two articles on the impact of rising real estate tax assessments.) Skyrocketing tax assessments on homes, condominiums and...