Average price for a single-family, detached home hits $410,359 By Susan W. Murray news@thewoodstockindependent.com For the first time, the average price for a detached, single-family home in the 60098 ZIP code – which includes Bull Valley, Greenwood, and Woodstock – crossed the $400,000 threshold in 2025. In the first six months of 2018, the average […]
Back in 2006, just before the real estate market crash flattened prices, the median price for a detached, single-family home in the 60098 ZIP code was $240,000. In the past six months, the median price was $317,500, said Keller Williams Success Realty agent Rich Toepper, tapping statistics from Midwest Real Estate Data. A combination of […]
Staff Report news@thewoodstockindependent.com Bids are due June 1 for interested buyers of a 1,660-square-foot home built by students in the building trades program of Woodstock School District 200. Bidding information was published in a public notice in the May 3 issue of The Woodstock Independent. Offers will be accepted until 10 a.m. June 1, with […]
If patience is a virtue, then those who are waiting for Woodstock home prices to fall before jumping into the market are becoming exceedingly virtuous. In the first quarter of 2023, the average price for a detached single-family home hit $355,040, up from $308,735 in the first quarter of 2022 – a 15 percent increase. […]
When summer temperatures hit the 90-degree mark, a bit of cooling makes nary a difference to those who have retreated to the air-conditioned indoors. In much the same way, the 60098 ZIP code housing market remains plenty hot, though “cooling a little,” in the assessment of Berkshire Hathaway Starck agent Rick Bellairs. Sobering stats Headlines […]
When Illinois allowed nonessential businesses to reopen in late May 2020, local real estate agents were stunned to see the real estate market ignite, fueled by working-from-home buyers who wanted more space, a more practical layout, and train line access to offices to which they were commuting irregularly – if at all. Interest rates that […]
One week ago, John Harding, with mixed emotions, cleaned out the office he had maintained at Berkshire Hathaway Starck Real Estate at 1710 S. Eastwood Drive. Much of the 10,000 square foot building was the headquarters of Harding Real Estate beginning in 1992, through Prudential Starck’s purchase of Harding in 2013, and after Prudential Starck […]
In the second half of June, Kim Keefe served as the agent for four home sales in Wonder Lake. The three transactions in which the agent with Keefe Real Estate in Woodstock represented the buyers were all multiple-offer situations, Keefe said. The homes sold for 4 percent to 7 percent above asking price, commanding $6,000, […]
When Woodstock resident Frank Harrison finished his undergraduate training at the University of Illinois and Milton College in 1971, he emerged with a bachelor’s degree in English and education. “About 500,000 other guys graduated with the same degree,” Harrison said. With teaching jobs scarce, Harrison’s father, who was a real estate appraiser, offered a proposal. […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
Susan W. Murray wrote for The Independent, covering various beats, from 2005 to 2008.
Tricia Carzoli is a freelance writer and photographer that on community news.
