HBA Realty

10/09/2024

https://chicagobuyeragents.com/mortgage-rates-drop-to-the-5s-what-it-means-for-you/

Mortgage rates have steadily declined over the past few months,with the 30-year mortgage rate falling by more than 1.0% sinceApril 2024, bringing rates to their lowest levels since February 2023.

05/10/2024

Click to learn about current Chicagoland real estate market and to acess neighborhood reports for detailed info on your area.

Rising prices and interest rates made Chicago homes less affordable in March than they’ve beenat any time in the past 17 years, and probably longer.

02/07/2024

See what market will do in 2024 and how your individual town or area is faring right now.

Experts agree that the 2024 Chicago real estate market will improve if mortgage interest rates continue to fall. We would shift from a seller’s market to a more “balanced” market of 6-8 months of inventory. This will mean more sales, which are down a mind-boggling 37% from the pre-Covid years ...

11/02/2023

09/29/2023

https://chicagobuyeragents.com/chicagos-home-price-growth-1-in-among-major-u-s-cities/

For the third month in a row, home prices grew faster in the Chicago area than in any other majorU.S. metro area, according to new data from the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices releasedthis morning. Chicago-area single-family home values rose 4.4% in July compared with the sametime last year.

07/25/2023

https://chicagobuyeragents.com/chicagoland-home-prices-reach-record-highs-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

The disparity between Chicago and metro-area price movement continues this year’s marked trend of the housing market showing far more vigor in the suburbs than in the city

06/21/2023

The reports are out, and the market is wild! This month we take a close look at Lincoln Park.

Nothing in my 23 years of real estate would have prepared me for what has happened this year. We truly are in the Wild Wild West when it comes to Chicago real estate. In this article I put Lincoln Park under the microscope.

06/05/2023

https://chicagobuyeragents.com/boom-years-officially-over-as-chicago-real-estate-prices-finally-fall/
Depends on where you live, some areas still bonkers like condos on Northside of Chicago.

According to new data released by the Illinois Realtors, home prices in the Chicago area dropped in April for the first time in over 12 years.

04/22/2023

Latest reports are out!

Single family prices in Chicago dropped five consecutive months, while prices have stayed flat for the metropolitan area. Condo prices in Chicago continued to rise with multiple bids on many homes.

03/28/2023

https://chicagobuyeragents.com/chicago-housing-before-and-after-the-covid-boom-and-bust/

This week marks the 3rd anniversary of the Covid shutdown. Let's look at what happened to the Chicago housing market in that time.