Releases

This release of the State of Rental Housing in Cook County updates key data on changing rental demand, the supply of rental housing, and how these dynamics are affecting access to affordable rental housing for Cook County's lowest income households. The report focuses on conditions in 2014, roughly two years into Cook County's housing market recovery, and compares data to pre-recession conditions in 2007 and conditions during the recession in 2011.

This update of the Institute for Housing Studies (IHS) Cook County House Price Index highlights changing prices for single family homes through the second quarter of 2015 in 16 City of Chicago submarkets and 17 submarkets primarily in suburban Cook County.

The Housing Market Conditions Report is released in conjunction with the annual update of the IHS Housing Market Indicators Data Portal. The objective of this report is to help users of the IHS Housing Market Indicators Data Portal understand how to interpret IHS market conditions indicators such as levels of foreclosure distress, the characteristics of property sales, or levels of mortgage credit and how they vary across the region in the most recent data.

This update of the Institute for Housing Studies (IHS) Cook County House Price Index highlights changing prices for single-family homes through the fourth quarter of 2014 in 16 City of Chicago submarkets and 17 submarkets primarily in suburban Cook County.

The Housing Market Conditions Report is released in conjunction with the annual update of the IHS Housing Market Indicators Data Portal. The objective of this report is to help users of the IHS Housing Market Indicators Data Portal interpret IHS market conditions indicators such as levels of foreclosure distress, the characteristics of property sales, or levels of mortgage credit, and how they vary across the region in the most recent data.

In light of the continued acute need for affordable rental housing in Cook County, the latest report from IHS examines a key challenge to maintaining and increasing the supply of affordable rental units: access to credit for multifamily properties in the county's lower-income communities. This report builds on the findings from the 2013 State of Rental Housing in Cook County using mortgage data released in October of 2014.

Single family house prices in Cook County experienced their seventh consecutive positive quarter in the second quarter 2014.

Update from IHS's regularly updated Cook County Single Family House Price Index.

The map tool allows users to scan and zoom a map of Cook County and examine housing composition in suburban Cook County, Chicago community areas, and even block by block throughout the county.

Update from IHS's regularly updated Cook County Single Family House Price Index.