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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

New Homes for Sale in Palatine

Patch.com partner Zillow.com provides updates on new homes for sale in Palatine.

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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Palatine Real Estate Update: The Market is Moving Fast

Buying and selling in this market is FAST, does this change the process of searching for a home? The current market in Palatine is boasting fast market times with less than days, sometimes hours before new listings are selling.

How fast is fast? Buying and selling in this market is FAST, does this change the process of searching for a home? The current market in Palatine is boasting fast market times with less than days, sometimes hours before new listings are selling. There have been a total of 38 new single-family listings in Palatine in the last two weeks, and 7 are under contract, with an average market time of 11 days. What’s driving this quick turnaround? Lack of inventory. The attached chart to the right shows absorption rate for Palatine. With 7 new listings under uncontract in just days; the current absorption rate is up 26% since the beginning of 2013. What is interesting about this marketplace is the pricing. The chart to the right shows the median …

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Palatine Real Estate Update: Are Home Values Rising?

The proof is in the numbers.

As we know, Palatine is a sought after community. We have excellent schools, outstanding location to expressways and public transit alongside excellent shopping. Buyers flock to Palatine ts for these reasons and more. In 2012 Palatine saw 397 total sales. (Chicago Magazine, April 2013).   How do these numbers play out for buyers and sellers for the remainder of 2013? In looking at March, there were 87 new single family listings in Palatine for the month and 29 of the properties went under contract with an average market time of 32 days. The average under contract price was $401,000.   Prices are also increasing. March 2012 averaged $121/sqft compared to March of 2013 at $145/sqft or up a total of 19.8% increase. This suggests sellers can …

Monday, March 4, 2013

TAXES, TAXES, TAXES in Palatine Township

Do you know what the current assessment on your home and how it will change?

What is your current assessment amount? Do you know how it will change?  In Calendar Year 2013, all of the property north of North Avenue but excluding the city of Chicago (ie: northwest suburbs) will be re-assessed. The re-assessed values will be your property’s value for property tax purposes for the next three (3) years.   There are 13 townships in the northwest suburbs to which this applies; namely, Barrington, Elk Grove Village, Evanston, Hanover, Leyden, New Trier, Niles, Northfield, Norwood Park, Main, Palatine, Schaumburg, and Wheeling.    You will receive the proposed 2013 Re-Assessed Values in the mail. Property owners have only 30 days to file an assessment appeal with the assessor’s office once the notice is mailed.   Property …

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

How Realtors Buy a Listing

Knowing the Palatine market and pricing according to the current marketplace will save you money in the long run.

When I first started in real estate, I was hungry for business. I did everything I could to appease sellers, including taking listings where the seller determined the listing price. The plan was to get as many listings as I could, at whatever price to get my name out there. What. A. Mistake. Now, (seasoned and all the much wiser,) education for sellers is the most important part of the process. Overpricing a property can often lead to a lower final sales price, painstaking long market times and frustrations from both seller and listing broker. Understanding the complete picture of the current marketplace by not only the broker, but also the seller creates a smoother, simpler and easier home sales process. How does a Realtor® buy a listing…

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Palatine Real Estate Update: The Spring Market has Kicked Off!

A founding member at @properties, Holly Connors offers information and tips for today's seller in the real estate market.

The spring market has kicked off! The Baltimore Ravens won. The game was exciting, commercials were good and now we look forward to 2013. Superbowl games in the past have marked the beginning of the spring market for real estate, when buyers and sellers come out of hibernation. This benchmark is when we normally see the supply of housing inventory begin to increase. However, in 2012 in the northwest suburbs we saw unexpectedly high demand, with bidding wars forcing home prices to rise slightly. We will see this trend continuing over the next few months as buyers continue to look for housing, specifically in the northwest suburbs. Homesellers become buyers, and look for similar deals on their purchase. Palatine for example has seen months …

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Cook County Real Estate Database

Want to see who sold their home in Cook County? Patch has compiled a searchable ongoing list of property sales in Cook County, based on data from the Cook County Recorder of Deeds.

Want to know how much that house down the block sold for or how many million dollar home sales there were in your community last year? Patch has put together a searchable real estate database of Cook County property sales that is updated twice a month as new data is received from the Cook County Recorder of Deeds. You can search by address (the field will fill in automatically as you start typing, but be patient — it may take a moment to catch up with you), or search a full town or a specific price range within a town. You can also search by the buyer or seller's name (and those fields will fill automatically as well). If no price is listed, or other information is missing, it is because it was not included in the information from the …

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Palatine Real Estate Update: Its Good to Be a Seller Again

A founding member at @properties, Holly Connors offers information and tips for today's seller in the real estate market.

Not only are market conditions getting better for sellers, they are getting better-faster. The chart [to the right] shows the increase in home sales, which are up 17.6% in Palatine, under contract homes are up 41.2%. Market time has also decreased significantly with the average days on market for a single family home down from 172 days in December 2011 to 149 days in December of 2012. The significance of the statistics support the idea of pent-up demand. A basic understanding of supply and demand will tell you, the time to sell is now. This high level of demand and low supply levels are setting the stage for a strong, spring market. According to a recent Zillow study of 105 Real Estate Professionals, home prices will rise 3.1% in 2013. …

Sunday, July 8, 2012

House Hunt: Foreclosures in Palatine

Here are some foreclosures for sale in the Palatine and Inverness zip codes.

The listings in the AOL real estate webpages said these homes are foreclosures for sale. Click on each listing to view photos of the property. 1758 South Edgar Street, Palatine 60067 Features: 4 Bed, 4 Bath; 0.54 Acre Lot Price: $380,900 (July 5) was $428,900 June 3. 743 North Franklin Avenue, Palatine  60067 Features: 2 Bed, 3 Bath; 2,800 square feet Price: $324,900 1555 North St Marks Place, Palatine 60067  Features: 2 Bed, 3 Bath; 1,262 square feet Price: $242,900 1195 South Smith Street, Palatine 60067 Features: 4 Bed, 3 Bath; 2,537 square feet Price: $159,900 (July 5) was $189,900 June 3. 15 South Linden Avenue, Palatine 60074 Features: 3 Bed, 2 Bath; 1,488 square feet; 0.25 Acre Lot Price: $139,900 49 North Plum Grove RoadPalatine, …

Friday, June 17, 2011

House Hunt: Palatine Area Foreclosures

The following is a selection of foreclosures in the Palatine area.

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