Real Estate

Palos Home Prices Rise in October (UPDATED)

The price of homes sold in October, year over year, increased for both Palos Heights and Palos Hills. Palos Heights also saw a dip in the number of home sales.

Palos Heights saw the largest percent drop in the number of home sales, with 36.4 percent fewer houses sold year over year in October, according to recently released real estate data. That shakes out to 7 homes sold in October 2012 compared to 11 sold in October 2011.

However, the price of home sales jumped 50 percent for Palos Heights and 16 percent for Palos Hills for the same year-over-year comparison.

The market for detached, single-family homes in suburbs throughout the Southland saw growth in October, according to the Mainstreet Organization of Realtors (MORe). MORe gets its statistics from Midwest Real Estate Data.

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Oak Forest experienced the most dramatic percent change in the number of homes sold, with an uptick of 144.4 percent in October 2012 over October 2011. The number of actual homes sold this October was 22, compared to the nine sold during the same period last year.

Overall across the Chicago suburbs, sales of single-family detached homes rose 44.6 percent in October over the same month in 2011, according to MORe.

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MORe predicts November will be another month of local housing market growth, as the number of detached homes under contract in October 2012 was 65.8 percent higher than in October 2011.

“2012 has already been a strong year for the housing market, and we are seeing activity continue to increase,” said Tonya Corder, president of MORe and managing broker of Keller Williams Preferred Realty in Orland Park. “Affordable home prices and historically low interest rates have created a rare opportunity for buyers. We are actually back to the point where we are seeing multiple offers on properties.”

# of homes sold Median price Town 2012 2011 % change 2012 2011 % change CHICAGO HEIGHTS 13 11 18.2%

55,000

48,000

14.6% EVERGREEN PARK 17 19 -10.5%

120,000

94,000

27.7% FLOSSMOOR 13 11 18.2%

234,000

165,000

41.8% FRANKFORT 22 19 15.8%

213,000

310,000

-31.3% HOMEWOOD 20 15 33.3%

85,000

100,000

-15% MOKENA 19 16 18.8%

299,000

235,000

27.2% NEW LENOX 21 19 10.5%

255,000

254,000

0.4% OAK FOREST 22 9 144.4%

161,500

175,000

-7.7% OAK LAWN 45 30 50%

158,500

164,450

-3.6% ORLAND PARK 34 21 61.9%

274,950

245,000

12.2% PALOS HEIGHTS 7 11 -36.4%

305,000

202,500

50.6% PALOS HILLS 6 4 50%

198,000

170,000

16.5% PALOS PARK 7 0 --

375,000

0 -- TINLEY PARK 28 19 47.4%

199,500

176,300

13.2%

Source: Mainstreet Organization of Realtors

By Lauren Williamson


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