market report: Chicago Sales are Down in September
- 10/25/10 01:03 PM
From the Illinois Association of Realtors: In the city of Chicago, September total home sales (single-family and condominiums) were down 26.9 percent to 1,403 sales compared to 1,918 homes sold in September 2009. The city of Chicago median price in September 2010 was $180,000, down 20.0 percent compared to $225,000 a year ago in September 2009. Year-to-date sales remain up 11.1 percent January through September 2010 with 15,285 sales compared to 13,760 home sales for the same period in 2009. The year-to-date median sales price for the city of Chicago is down 7.9 percent to $210,000 from $228,000 for 2009. Here (1 comments)
market report: New Home Sales Are Down
- 06/28/10 08:00 AM
New Home Sales Are Down This is the kind of news that is exactly what I knew was coming. Now that the government is out and the credit is ended, maybe just maybe we might be able to bottom out and start to rebuild. This is the slowest sales pace since the Commerce Department began tracking data in 1963. The prior record was set in September 1981, when new homes sold at an annual rate of 338,000. A consensus of economists surveyed by Briefing.com had expected May sales to slide to an annual rate of 430,000. Home sales had surged in (2 comments)