Articles tagged 'Chicago'
December 20, 2017
The “606 Effect” on Housing Prices Is Real, and Threatens to Displace Residents
December 13, 2017
House prices in Chicago suburbs fall as crime rate rises
December 12, 2017
How Can We Keep Neighborhood Investments From Causing Displacement?
November 21, 2017
Housing Prices In Some Big American Cities Are Booming. Why Not Chicago?
October 26, 2017
Amazon headquarters could make Chicago’s housing crisis worse
October 23, 2017
Advancing regional solutions to address America’s housing affordability crisis
September 14, 2017
What would Amazon do to Chicago's housing market?
January 17, 2017
Old Mortgage Alternative Makes a Controversial Resurgence
Federal regulators are investigating firms that offer contracts for deed.In Detroit in 2015, there were more contracts for deed than there were mortgages.Under these agreements, homebuyers make a down payment and monthly payments to the seller, who hangs onto the deed until the final payment is complete. Although the buyers cannot...
November 2, 2015
Who Will be Hardest Hit by the Chicago Property Tax Increase? A Q&A with the Institute for Housing Studies' Geoff Smith
As Chicagoans brace for a property tax increase to fill the city’s budget hole and the rising pressure of unfunded pensions, we sat down with the our executive director, Geoff Smith, to get his insights on which neighborhoods will feel the pain the most, and why. IHS: It's official. Chicagoans will see their property taxes...
House Price Index
July 13, 2013
Cook County House Price Index: First Quarter 2013
Update from IHS's regularly updated Cook County Single Family House Price Index.
