Should You Invest In Chicago Real Estate? If you're planning to buy a rehab home, take your time; prices will go higher but slowly. Investments in single-family rental properties have good potential in the next few years, as do investments in housing developments, especially apartments . Mortgages have low risk because home prices will go [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
