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Overview 

 

The City of Chicago market snapshot represents the residential real estate activity within the 77 officially defined Chicago community areas as provided by  the Chicago Association of REALTORS. All information reported by the Chicago Association of REALTORS.

  • 2,041 properties were sold in Chicago in June 2020. This is a 28.4% decrease from June 2019
  • The median sales price of all properties sold in Chicago in June was $327,500, a 2.7% increase from last year
  • Listings stayed on the market an average of 83 days, a 22.1% increase from last June

State of the Market

  • Many states, including Illinois, were working on reopening the economy in June. This started to strengthen the real estate activity.  June…

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According to a recent article by Nicole Friedman in the Wall Street Journal, home prices across the nation continued to accelerate in April while sales dropped sharply among a limited amount of homes for sales in many markets. 

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, which measures average home prices in major metropolitan areas across the US, rose 4.7% in the year that ended in April, up from 4.6% annual rate the prior month. 

Sales of previously owned homes, which make up the bulk of the housing market, dropped 17.8% in April from a month earlier as the coronavirus pandemic shut down business activity in many parts of the country, according to the National Association of Realtors. 

Home buyers have been enticed…

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Overview

All information and statistics per Chicago Association of Realtors

(The City of Chicago market updates include the residential real estate activity within the 77 officially defined Chicago community areas as provided by the Chicago Association of Realtors)

  • In May, 1,679 residential properties were sold in Chicago. This was a 43% decrease from May 2019
  • The median sales price of all properties sold in the city was $312,500, a slight decrease of 0.8% from May 2019
  • Listings stayed on the market an average of 83 days, a 13.7% increase from May 2019

State of the Market

While the effects of COVID-19 continue to affect the economy as a whole, real estate activity is beginning to recover in most of the country and especially…

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