Chicago home sales fail to pick up in 2007

Though local observers say the slumbering Chicago housing market has started to stir, it snored right through January, when sales slid by nearly 11 percent from a year before, according to data released Tuesday by the Illinois Association of Realtors.

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Zillow Quarterly Housing Report

Zillow has released an Excel spreadsheet with housing data for the Chicagoland area. Lots of fun data on this, and you can make graphs to show whatever you like. Play around with it some, see how we compare to other cities.
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Downtown condo glut

The number of unsold downtown condos and townhomes either completed or under construction totaled 2,887 at the end of the fourth quarter, up 10% from the third quarter and 44% from fourth-quarter 2005, according to Appraisal Research Counselors, a Chicago-based real estate firm that tracks the downtown residential market.
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