http://greaterchicagorealestateblog.com Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:19:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi all.  Thanks for hanging out with me and my first attempt at a real estate blog.  I've spend the past couple months combining my blog and my real estate website to create one entity to provide you with the best real estate informaiton for Chicago and the Western Suburbs.  ... http://greaterchicagorealestateblog.com/2009/05/13/greater-chicago-real-estate-blog-has-moved/ When I put out my market statistics for communities around Chicago I pull a large number of stats to share with you.  One of my favorites is Months Supply of Inventory or MSI.  This is a simple way to help us talk about whether or not we are in a ... http://greaterchicagorealestateblog.com/2009/03/27/what-is-months-supply-of-inventory/ Let's take a quick glance at what was going on with the Clarendon Hills real estate market for the month of February 2009.  As always you can contact me with additional questions. The average home price over the past 13 months is $598,000. The months supply of inventory for Clarendon Hills for ... http://greaterchicagorealestateblog.com/2009/03/26/clarendon-hills-il-chicagos-western-suburbs-real-estate-information-february-2009/ Let's take a look at how the Westmont real estate market did last month for single family homes. Total number of properties on the market as of February 28th was 130.  That is down just 1% from a year ago this time.  Looking at the total number of properties in Westmont ... http://greaterchicagorealestateblog.com/2009/03/13/westmont-il-chicagos-western-suburbs-real-estate-information-february-2009/ Let's take a look at how single family homes in Downers Grove did as of the end of February 2009. Total number of single family homes for sale at the end of February was 434 which is down 9% from last February.  Total number of properties that accepted a contract in ... http://greaterchicagorealestateblog.com/2009/03/11/downers-grove-il-chicagos-western-suburbs-real-estate-information-february-2009/ Let's take a closer look at Lisle, IL real estate market statistics as of February 2009. Total number of single family properties for sale as of February 2009 was 124.  That is up 6% from last February which saw 117 on market.  Number under contract is 5 (same as last year.)  ... http://greaterchicagorealestateblog.com/2009/03/09/lisle-il-chicagos-western-suburbs-real-estate-information-february-2009/ This weekend, the weekend of March 6-8, is when we are to set are clocks one hour forward.  We do this at 2am on Sunday morning, March 8, 2009.  Or, you can do as I do and just set them all ahead as I go to bed on Saturday night.  ... http://greaterchicagorealestateblog.com/2009/03/07/daylight-savings-dont-forget-to-spring-forward-this-weekend-chicagoland/ Let's take a look at how things have been going in the Naperville, IL real estate market as of end of February, 2009. The total number of single family homes for sale in Naperville is 1,063 and that number is down 4% from last year (1,110.)  When looking at number of ... http://greaterchicagorealestateblog.com/2009/03/06/naperville-il-chicagos-western-suburbs-real-estate-information-february-2009/ So, thanks to previous posts, we're all familiar with the first time home buyers credit that is available.  Well, I now have the form you can use in order to claim it with your taxes.  Or the form that you can give to your accountant in case they don't have ... http://greaterchicagorealestateblog.com/2009/03/02/tax-form-for-first-time-home-buyer-credit-form-5405/ Seems every time I get excited about something there is another something that comes around the corner and ruins my fun.  Within the past few weeks we have been on somewhat of a roller coaster trying to make sense and see what passes to help home buyers within the Stimulus ... http://greaterchicagorealestateblog.com/2009/02/27/new-lending-guidelines-counter-productive-to-stimulus-bill/