Platt Park and Washington Park Market Update Well fall 2016 has arrived in the Platt Park and Washington Park markets. It is always predictable that each year about this time things begin to cool down. Of course the media announcements always lags a couple months so you will not be reading about this till October… [Read More]
Platt Park Real Estate Market Update
Platt Park Real Estate Market Update. Summer 2016 Let’s get you caught up on the real estate market for the first half of the year. Of course the headlines have been all about the housing shortage, frustrated buyers, happy sellers and record prices. Certainly in a broad-brush sense that is all true but a… [Read More]
Platt Park Real Estate Update for February 2016
It’s a bit crazy out there! The end of last year saw the market cooling more than it usually does in the fall for Platt Park and Washington Park. Sales volume dropped compared to the previous year and we saw prices soften for the first time in awhile–all pointing to perhaps a more… [Read More]
Platt Park Market Outlook for 2016
As we head into 2016 the signals are a bit mixed for the first time in many year. We’ve enjoyed an unbroken four years of a market that has been ‘full-speed-ahead’ in every way. Prices have jumped considerably—39% since 2011, which is pretty amazing by any standard. The signals however began to change some in… [Read More]
Platt Park Real Estate–October report
The Platt Park Real Estate market followed a predictable course in October but with added gusto. It is a well established pattern in Platt Park for the market to slow in the fall compared to the first nine months of the year. In the fourth quarter of the year the number of sales tends to… [Read More]