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Foreclosure Listings Down in Chicago
By Scott Berg at 20 January, 2012, 10:21 pm
Looking at Chicago foreclosure listings were down 1% in the last 30 days. Foreclosure listings made up 12.4% of the total number of properties listed in the MLS during the last 30 days. This compares with 13.4% in the the 30 days preceding. Short sales were also down 3% during the same period and stood at [...]
Read More >>Chicago Homes – Market Update
By Scott Berg at 19 January, 2012, 9:28 pm
The average list price of Chicago homes for sale is currently strongest at the high end (homes priced above $394,000) and weakest at the low end. The low end homes are most affected by foreclosures and average list prices have dropped 4.1% over the last year. Over the same period however the median closed sales [...]
Read More >>Where Do The Chicago Bears Call Home?
By Scott Berg at 5 January, 2012, 3:11 pm
Where do the Chicago Bears live? Well they don’t own homes in the City of Chicago. Bob Goldsborough posted this story today at Chicago Real Estate Scene about where the Chicago Bears do choose to own real estate and call home. Of course all this could change shortly as heads are currently rolling at Halas [...]
Read More >>Houston Flat Fee Special
By Scott Berg at 21 December, 2011, 6:35 pm
List your Houston area home on the MLS for a flat fee of $274 for the next 30 days. This special ends on January 31st 2012. Use coupon code hst274 in our shopping cart to get the special deal. Your home will also get listed on major websites like Realtor.com, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Zillow, Trulia [...]
Read More >>Flat Fee MLS Chicago Year in Review
By Scott Berg at 15 December, 2011, 8:40 pm
2011 was a difficult year for flat fee mls listing companies as sales volumes were down again. I primarily attribute this to two different market forces. One is the fact that when distressed properties take up 30-40% of listing market volume that is just fewer potential sellers that will go with our type of for [...]
Read More >>Oak Park Real Estate
By Scott Berg at 14 December, 2011, 8:25 pm
I just posted a Oak Park Real Estate Trends report to our Chicago Real Estate Scene blog. It has cool graphs of median sales prices, average price per square foot, inventory and sales absorption. It is for single family homes only but I am sure I will get to condos later in the month.
Read More >>List on MLS for Flat Fee in St. Louis, Missouri
By Scott Berg at 9 December, 2011, 10:13 pm
You can sell your home without paying a huge commission to a listing agent. Get you home listed on the St Louis MLS for a low one time fee of $297. My name is Scott Berg and I am licensed locally. The home can also be listed in major websites like Realtor.com, Yahoo, MSN, and [...]
Read More >>Bucktown Single Family Homes
By Scott Berg at 8 December, 2011, 7:22 pm
The Bucktown Real Estate Market This data was compiled from Chicago MLS listings from the past 12 months. As you can see from this data there is around a years worth of inventory in Bucktown with 97 homes sold in the last 12 months and 48 currently active on the market. The average market time [...]
Read More >>List a Home on MLS for Flat Fee
By Scott Berg at 6 December, 2011, 10:14 pm
Scott Berg has been listing homes for a flat fee on the Chicago MLS since 2004. We can assist you. Typically our clients are either “for sale by owner” or industry insiders. Industry insiders include former real estate brokers, commercial brokers, mortgage brokers, attorneys, builders, developers, rehabbers, flippers, and appraisers. The program includes an mls [...]
Read More >>Bucktown Homes For Sale Market Report
By Scott Berg at 6 December, 2011, 4:37 am
Market Statistics for Bucktown, Chicago for December 5, 2011 Total Listings Average List Price Average Market Time Sold 97 $884,354 175 days Active 46 $1,192,547 287 days Under Contract 12 $899,733 249 days Max [...]
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