Archive for February, 2010
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off House Lowers Price
The Ben Rose home has reduced its price tag. Not familiar with that house? Maybe you know it better as the Highland Park home in which Cameron Frye kicked his father’s Ferrari out of the floor-to-ceiling window and into the ravine in the movie, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Once priced at $2.3 million, the one-story home [...]
New Home Sales Plunge to Record Low
January 2010 has the distinction of posting the lowest amount rate of new construction ever sold in a single month since the Census Bureau began keeping the statistics in 1963. Declining since November and December of 2009, January dropped another 6.1%. Continued pressure from foreclosures and short sales pushing prices down, new construction is an [...]
Free Home Show Set for this Weekend
Are you living in your dream house? If the answer is no, then this weekend you’ll want to check out a free home show that will house hundreds of exhibitors with thousands of ideas to repair, improve or remodel your Chicago home. The Home Improvement Showcase Expo’s largest show ever will be at Arlington Park [...]
Chicago Real Estate Prices Drop, Nationally Rise 0.3%
Just as Chicago breaking news reports that home prices in the Chicago fell 1.6 percent in December, nationally prices continue to tick up 0.3% according to S&P / Case -Shiller. The Chicago real estate news is the sharpest decline among the top 20 metropolitan markets in December, according to a widely watched housing index released Tuesday. [...]
New Homes In Richmond By Gerstad Builders, Model Now Open!
A professionally decorated two-story home with 1,995 square feet of living space has been reopened in Gerstad Builder’s Trails of Pheasant Ridge community in northwest Chicagoland offering new homes in Richmond Illinois. In addition to the decorated model, the builder is also introducing four new floor plans that are sized and finished with amenities that [...]
