We analyzed data from Chicago apartment listings posted on Domu during the last year in order to compare rents of 2 bedroom apartments in neighborhoods throughout the City of Chicago. The infographic above paints a familiar picture: Rents are highest in downtown Chicago neighborhoods and those…

Chicago apartment rents are at record-highs throughout the city. How does your neighborhood compare with others? We crunched our data to examine the median rent prices of 1- bedroom apartments in neighborhoods throughout Chicago. But first, a note about our method. We pulled all listings posted…

Every landlord—and tenant—knows that rent of Chicago apartments have soared in recent years. We decided to mine our own data to see if it tells the same story as reports we’ve been reading. Most of our findings are exactly what you’d expect. Our data paints a portrait of a thriving Chicago…

We at Domu like to monitor changes in the Chicago rental market and share our observations with landlords to give them an idea of what to expect in the coming months. One factor we use to identify market trends is "market time," or the period of time an apartment remains listed before a tenant…

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Here at Domu, we like to keep a trained eye on Chicago’s high-rise development activity and report back to our landlord and tenant friends who closely monitor supply and demand.  So having taken a spin around town to check on the progress of the changing…

Observers of the Chicago apartment market will be following the action closely, as historically low vacancy rates and steadily rising rents will soon be met by an onslaught of new construction inventory -- more than 3,600 apartment units slated for delivery in just over a year and another 332…

Last August, we finally went public with our carefully-harvested apartment data, hoping our rapidly-expanding list of landlord and tenant clients could benefit from additional insight into the local residential rental market. Our blog readers will recall that we released a chart reflecting the…

With vacancies dwindling and rents rising, several new apartment towers are now under construction in Chicago, as developers prepare to capitalize on an unlikely real estate mini-boom.  With seven massive buildings containing 2,789 new apartments now in the pipeline, we at Domu are…

We at Domu have something golden, and, yes, we are gonna give it up for nothing.  It’s our no-longer-top-secret apartment data, and what it says about the Chicago rental market just may surprise you.

We assigned our in-house computer nerd responsibility for taking…