Articles tagged 'Maps'

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...

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.

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

Mortgage activity from the third quarter of 2012 to the first quarter of 2013 in Oak Park, Illinois (left) and in the Austin Community Area of Chicago (right). Sometimes an image makes you stop in your tracks. In the midst of working with some parcel-level data for a report, our...

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...

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