Articles tagged 'Maps'
Chicago Area Housing Market Conditions Report
he 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.
Examining Patterns of Concentrated Institutional Investor Purchases in Cook County
After aggressively entering the housing market in 2012, institutional investors slowed their purchasing of single family homes in early 2014, signaling the beginning of a new phase in the real estate owned (REO)-to-rental cycle that shifts focus away from property acquisition and increasingly toward how these global corporations will act as property owners...
Cook County House Price Index: First Quarter 2014
Update from IHS's regularly updated Cook County Single Family House Price Index.
The composition of Cook County's housing market
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.
A Closer Look at Business Buyer Activity in Cook County in 2013
The growth of institutional investors as a dominant player in certain hard-hit housing markets may have implications for the recovery and stability of these markets in coming years. This post examines the recent activity of the top business buyers of single family homes in Cook County and highlights the emergence...
Overview of the Chicago housing market
Written to inform the development of the City's 2014-2018 Five Year Housing Plan, the Overview of the Chicago Housing Market contains a comprehensive set of maps, charts, and tables meant to both provide background data for the city's housing plan and a comprehensive view of neighborhood housing markets. This book was used to facilitate advisory group discussions of the housing market needs of Chicago’s neighborhoods and to craft the new Five-Year Housing Plan that will guide the City’s policy and investment related to housing from 2014 to 2018.
Cook County House Price Index: First Quarter 2013
Update from IHS's regularly updated Cook County Single Family House Price Index.
The Difference a Street Makes
Illustrating differences in mortgage activity on both sides of Austin Boulevard
Addressing Long-Term Vacancy: One Policy Approach
This is the second in a series of posts discussing long-term residential vacancy in Chicago and suburban Cook County. For the first post in this series, click here. The first post in this series, Understanding vacancy: Patterns of long-term vacancy in Cook County, discussed why a residential address may become vacant and how properties that...
Cook County House Price Index: Fourth Quarter 2012
Update from IHS's regularly updated Cook County Single Family House Price Index.