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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

January 2013 Home Sales Jump in Geneva

Median sale prices continue to drop year-over-year, but at least one expert is predicting that sales volume will continue to rise dramatically in 2013.

By Lauren Williamson Geneva leads the league among the Tri-Cities in the January real estate report compiled by the Mainstreet Organization of Realtors. Geneva not only saw the largest percent increase, with 76.9 percent more homes sold year over year in January, but homes held their value better than those sold in neighbors Batavia and St. Charles. It's hard to say for sure from the stats provided, but those numbers hint strongly that Geneva saw fewer foreclosures in January 2013. Twenty-three homes were sold in Geneva in January 2013 compared to 13 in January 2012. The median price dropped, but only by a little more than $11,000 per home—about a 3.5 percent difference. Compare that to Batavia, where the median sale price of detached, …

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Kane County Home Sales Reach Six-Year High, RE/MAX Reports

But the bad news is that distressed homes are accounting for 40 percent of sales.

September traditionally marks the beginning of the fall season when home sales begin their retreat from summer highs. This September, however, delivered the most promising results that Kane County and the entire the seven-county metropolitan Chicago real estate market have seen in several years, according to an analysis by RE/MAX. Sales of detached and attached homes in September totaled 7,396 units, an increase of 22 percent from September 2011 and the most homes sold in any September since 2006.    The average number of days that homes sold in September were on the market before a sales contract was signed declined from 167 days a year ago to 139 days this September. That 139-day average was identical to the market time recorded in …

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