Tips for Investing in Real Estate If you’re just beginning investing in real estate, you’ll find that there’s a lot to learn. Real estate investing is more complicated than investing in stocks because of the financial, legal, and extensive due diligence requirements involved. That’s why it’s a good idea to give yourself a solid education [...]
Hot neighborhoods poised to see growth among modest real estate forecast Chicago homeowners have been waiting for real estate values to bounce back and homeowners should now be excited to find neighborhoods are poised to see appreciation. On average, home prices in the Chicago area will climb 6 percent this year. That contrasts with a [...]
You want to rehab houses, but where do you start? We see the fix-and-flip “reality” shows that, somehow, manage to have no basis in reality. How hard can it be to buy a house, rehab it, sell it, and retire to a life of luxury on the French Riviera? On TV, it all happens in [...]
10 Lethal real estate investing mistakes Once the market starts to rebound, investing in real property also becomes a more appealing idea -- either as a career or a great side job. Like any other endeavor, though, there's a right way and a wrong way to go about it. Bankrate spoke with established, full-time real [...]
Flipping houses for big returns Flipping houses can earn big returns if you're ready to put in the work. Additionally, there is certainly good money to be made. Just be smart, as emotion-free as possible and get ready for a real estate ride like no other. And no, it's not as easy as it looks [...]
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Chicago real estate market 2018 The rise in the Chicago real estate market continues to drive the demand in the residential market and multi-family developments. This outcome continues to attract buyers to Chicago’s core neighborhoods. 2017 was a year of uncertainty in many economic and political aspects influencing the real estate market. On one hand, [...]
Illinois housing market swings into spring with jump in home sales, prices The Illinois housing market had a strong showing in January with home sales climbing 9.6 percent over previous-year levels. The statewide median price surging 10.7 percent higher,according to Illinois REALTORS®. Statewide home sales (including single-family homes and condominiums) in January 2018 totaled 13,274 [...]
Housing recovery lags other big metro areas Of the nation's ten largest metro areas, Chicago has the smallest share of homes that have recovered to their pre-recession peak values. The culprit: Chicago's slow growth in three inter-connected spheres—jobs, income and population—relative to the other big cities. Just 7.6 percent of the homes in Chicago area [...]
Tight inventory, which has plagued the Chicago and national real estate markets for a few years now, keeps getting tighter in mid priced suburbs. Tightest among them are Glendale Heights, where the supply of homes on the market at the end of February was enough to fuel just 1.4 months of sales, Elk Grove Village [...]
