Comments on: The Truth About Chicago Area Housing Prices

By: Dee TB

Dee TB — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:09:58 +0000

Your decision to purchase a home should not be based solely on the home as an investment. However, it simply must be a factor–particularly in today’s housing market. My husband and I purchased home we loved in Baltimore MD in 2006. We were planning to fix it up and live there for a long long time. However, less than 1 year later, he recieved a job offer here in Chicago he could not refuse. So. . .we are back in the market for a home, and our value has declined. We are renting, and purchasing a foreclosure as an attempt to offset a loss, but for now and probably over the next 3 to 4 years we view this home we loved at one time as a “white elephant” on our backs. This experience taught us to look for most of the things we really like in a home, its location, and its investment value.

By: AsianWeek » Letters to the Editor: APAs Driven Out, Real Estate Prices, Recalling Mom, and the Real Patriots

Wed, 21 May 2008 09:01:30 +0000

[...] Real Estate Prices: Up or Down It’s not what you think — notice they say median sales prices (“Real Estate Sales Down, Prices Up … How can that be?,” Asian Real Estate, May 9). That does not mean that prices went up. Median prices can be affected by the mix of houses sold. The Case-Shiller Index is the correct way to measure changes in prices. For more information: blog.lucidrealty.com/2008/04/25/the-truth-about-chicago-area-housing-prices/. [...]

By: dupage 88

dupage 88 — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:07:24 +0000

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