Articles tagged 'Maps'

Reports   November 1, 2016

Measuring the Impact of The 606

Measuring the Impact of the 606: Understanding How a Large Public Investment Impacted the Surrounding Community examines how the housing market responded to the development of The 606 linear park, Chicago's recent addition to the growing number of "rails to trails" projects nationwide.

September 15, 2016

Using Data to Drive Community Change

How a unique partnership between organizers and data analysts helped a community group on Chicago’s southwest side develop strategies to stabilize the neighborhood’s housing market.In August, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan took a walking tour of the Chicago Lawn neighborhood. She was there to review the progress in a neighborhood that had been hard...

Indicators and Data Tools   July 12, 2016

Chicago Area Housing Market Conditions Report

he Housing Market Conditions Report is released in conjunction with the annual update of the IHS Housing Market Indicators Data Portal. The objective of this report is to help users of the IHS Housing Market Indicators Data Portal interpret IHS market conditions indicators such as levels of foreclosure distress, the characteristics of property sales, or levels of mortgage credit, and how they vary across the region in the most recent data.

August 25, 2014

Examining Patterns of Concentrated Institutional Investor Purchases in Cook County

After aggressively entering the housing market in 2012, institutional investors slowed their purchasing of single family homes in early 2014, signaling the beginning of a new phase in the real estate owned (REO)-to-rental cycle that shifts focus away from property acquisition and increasingly toward how these global corporations will act as property owners...

House Price Index   June 12, 2014

Cook County House Price Index: First Quarter 2014

Update from IHS's regularly updated Cook County Single Family House Price Index.

Indicators and Data Tools   June 6, 2014

The composition of Cook County's housing market

The map tool allows users to scan and zoom a map of Cook County and examine housing composition in suburban Cook County, Chicago community areas, and even block by block throughout the county.

May 6, 2014

A Closer Look at Business Buyer Activity in Cook County in 2013

The growth of institutional investors as a dominant player in certain hard-hit housing markets may have implications for the recovery and stability of these markets in coming years. This post examines the recent activity of the top business buyers of single family homes in Cook County and highlights the emergence...

Reports   October 9, 2013

Overview of the Chicago housing market

Written to inform the development of the City's 2014-2018 Five Year Housing Plan, the Overview of the Chicago Housing Market contains a comprehensive set of maps, charts, and tables meant to both provide background data for the city's housing plan and a comprehensive view of neighborhood housing markets. This book was used to facilitate advisory group discussions of the housing market needs of Chicago’s neighborhoods and to craft the new Five-Year Housing Plan that will guide the City’s policy and investment related to housing from 2014 to 2018.

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.

June 27, 2013

The Difference a Street Makes

Illustrating differences in mortgage activity on both sides of Austin Boulevard