Area real estate agents are making space in their cars for clients again and they get almost bubbly when they talk about the uptick in activity.
"I'm so thankful," said Mark Zipperer, a Re/Max Edge agent in Chicago, as he ticked off his busy schedule of appointments last week. "It's like after a drought, it's raining. Not only did I have a lot of people sitting in my car [last weekend] but one of my oldest listings sold."
In the past few weeks, agents say an undeniable scent of sales is in the air, and data released Thursday gave credibility to their talk.
March sales of previously owned single-family homes and condominiums in Illinois posted their second consecutive month-over-month gain, and for the first time since June, the statewide median price for a home rose from the prior month.
Suburban counties seeing among the largest month-over-month sales increases were Lake County, 65 percent; Kendall County, 51 percent; and Cook County, 38 percent.
Realty agents are taking pains to not get too giddy. After all, that 38 percent one-month gain in sales in Cook County translated to 2,409 properties sold. In March 2008, 3,432 homes sold in Cook County.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Home sales in Chicago area start to show more signs of life
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