I am partnering up with a notable North Shore architect to expand his existing new construction and

destoria
Home Seller
Evanston, IL

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home business. He has stuck to the northern North Shore communities of Lake Forest, Highland Park, and Glencoe. I live in one of the homes designed by him in Glencoe and I am interested in expanding our building area to include Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Mettawa, Deerfield, Highland Park, Glencoe, Winnetka, and Northfield. I would like to hear how the market is for spec homes in the communities I have mentioned. I have tried to look for market condition profiles but cannot get anything from them. I noticed that land is very affordable in Lake Forest, Mettawa, Deerfield, Lake Bluff, and Northfield.

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Karin Robison
Broker
Gurnee, IL
FIRST ANSWER

There have been only 14 sales of properties classified as new or proposed construction in the past 6 months; 40 in the past 12 months. Currently, there are 70 such active properties, and another 5 under contract.
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Overwhelmingly, the majority of active, contingent, and sold properties are in the $1-2M range, and market time of solds for the last 6 months averaged slightly over 300 days on market, compared to 253 average dom for non-new construction units in the same areas (where average SP drops to $900K).
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Of the 14 sales, 2 were short sales (no bank REOs). Among the actives, 4 are short sales, with no bank-owned REO properties noted. All but 1 sold property had finished basements, and average sale price to original list price was 86%.

Hope that helps! If you need more info, please let me know.

Tue Jul 14 2009, 21:24

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