Tracy Cross & Associates, Inc. 2nd Quarter 2021 Homebuilding companies sold 3,185 new construction units in the Chicago region during the first six months of 2021, an increase of nearly 40 percent compared to the first half of 2020 when 2,314 contracts were recorded. Transactions were split between 1,853 in the detached sector, representing a […]
Prices were up about $45,000, according to a consultant’s survey, but one homebuilder says that’s all taken up by the fast-rising cost of materials. Dennis Rodkin Crain’s Chicago Business August 5, 2021 Local new-home sales in the Chicago area lost much of their early 2021 vigor in the spring, largely because prices jumped as building-material […]
Tracy Cross & Associates, Inc. 1st Quarter 2021 During the 1st Quarter 2021, production homebuilders in the Chicago region nearly doubled their sales volume from a year ago to reach a quarterly level not seen since before the Great Recession more than a decade ago. During the January-March 2021 period, 1,869 total production homes were […]
High demand and rising lumber costs mean buyers are paying tens of thousands of dollars more for newly constructed homes. Dennis Rodkin Crain’s Chicago Business May 04, 2021 New home sales, like virtually every other part of the housing market, were buoyant in the first quarter of the year in the Chicago area. More […]
Sales in Chicago dropped to their lowest in 25 years in 2020 while climbing to a 12-year high in the suburbs. Dennis Rodkin Crain’s Chicago Business February 02, 2021 This new four-bedroom house on Cedarwood Lane in the Cambridge Lakes development in Pingree Grove sold for just under $324,000 in December. Sales of new-construction homes […]
Private homebuilders dominated the local market almost up until the housing crash of 2008-09; publicly traded companies have had the upper hand since then. But the dynamics are now shifting. H. Lee Murphy Crain’s Chicago Business February 01, 2021 Homebuilders around Chicago are enjoying the best sales they’ve had in more than a decade. The […]
More new homes sold in the first three quarters of 2020 than any comparable period in a dozen years. The sales growth is entirely suburban. Dennis Rodkin Crain’s Chicago Business November 02, 2020 This newly built house on Bristle Cone Drive in the Woodlore subdivision in Crystal Lake sold in August for just under $388,000 […]
Homebuilders had one of their best quarters locally in a dozen years. Dennis Rodkin Crain’s Chicago Business August 04, 2020 Sales of new homes soared in the second quarter in suburban Chicago, a new report shows, due in […]
“People stopped in their tracks” in March, typically the strongest month of the year. Dennis Rodkin Crain’s Chicago Business May 05, 2020 Sales of newly built homes fell locally in the first quarter, according to a report, pushed down […]
Builders can’t beat the resale prices of existing homes in Chicago’s slow-rising real estate market, says an executive with a homebuilding consultancy. Dennis Rodkin Crain’s Chicago Business July 31, 2019 LIttle Realty A row of townhouses under construction in Naperville. They’re priced at about $270,000. The number […]