CHICAGO REAL ESTATE STATS PACK – JULY 30 2007

CHICAGO REAL ESTATE STATS PACK – JULY 30 2007

Good Morning Everyone!

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Hope you had a great weekend! If you’re a fan of The Chicago Cubs it was indeed a very good weekend for you!

Here’s our Chicago Real Estate Stats Pack for Monday Morning July 30th 2007.

SINGLE FAMILY CONDOS AND SMALL MULTI-UNIT PROPERTIESNORTH SIDE OF CHICAGO NORTH OF ADDISON STREET WEST OF ASHLAND AVENUE

NEW LISTINGS JUST SOLD CLOSED EXPIRED

w/e July 29th 1432 75 124 54

w/e July 22nd 1511 91 106 68

% CHANGE -5.2% -17.6% +17.0% -20.6%

CLOSED PROPERTIES DATA

AVG SALE PRICE AVG DAYS ON MKT TOTAL VOLUME

w/e July 29th $325432 113 DAYS $40353586

w/e July 22nd $366694 131 DAYS $38869590

CHANGE -11.3% -13.7% +3.8%

SOURCE: MLSNI AREA MARKET SURVEY DATA

OBSERVATIONS

New Listings decline typical for mid-summer as are drops in Just Sold. Just Closed numbers reflects those properties that went under contract on average 30-60 days ago earlier in the summer. Expired Listings decrease encouraging but may be simply due to the mid-month status check – many listings expire end of month. Market Time trend continues to improve on average over the last few weeks. Average Sales Price bounced back down again this week – reflecting price volatility we have seen in recent months and somewhat downward trend in average condo prices especially for mid-priced condo units. Total Volume again up this week. Again this might be advance planning by home buyers wanting to close before school starts.

RATE AND MARKET CHECK

Rates decreased a bit since last week! For the week ending July 26th average 30-year fixed rate mortgages stood at 6.69% nationally DOWN .04% from the previous week according to Freddie Mac. One year ago in 2006 average mortgage rates for 30-year fixed rate loans stood at – 6.72%. Frank Nothaft Vice President and Chief Economist for Freddie Mac cited concerns that a weak spring market point to a continued delay in recovery of the real estate market.

"Several factors contributed to the softening in housing markets this spring. In addition to the tightening of lending standards earlier this year especially on subprime loans the 40 basis point jump in rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages in June may have deterred potential buyers. For the year-to-date sales of single-family homes were down about 9 percent from the first half of 2007" says Nothaft.

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Posted: Sunday July 29 2007 7:43 PM by Dean’s Team