2023 Q2 property sales data has been uploaded

Chicago Cityscape has added the latest quarter of property sales in Cook County. There were 30,291 sales recorded between April 1, 2023, and June 30, 2023. That is a 21.1 percent increase in sales compared to 2023 Q1.

Read about the change from 2022 Q4 to 2022 Q1.

Our full dataset of Cook County property sales spans the period of 2014 to the second quarter of 2023; data comes from the Illinois Department of Revenue and is updated quarterly, within two weeks of the end of the quarter.

Forty-seven percent of these sales and transactions were for Chicago properties. Use the Property Sales Browser to analyze the number and value of sales in other municipalities.

chart showing the number of property sales per quarter between 2019 Q1 and 2023 Q1 inclusive


Recap of Chicago Cityscape's Q1 Lunch Break Update on April 18, 2023

Watch the 23-minute video recording of our latest Lunch Break Update, during which we demonstrate some of the new features we published during Q1 2023. 

Use this timecodes guide to skip amongst the four platform updates:

  • 1.a. Finding new development opportunities, vacant building registry: 3:25
  • 1.b. Finding new development opportunities, brownfields: 6:11
  • 2. New building permits filters (topics, tags, and civic projects): 9:00
  • 3. Aerial and historic maps: 14:12
  • Audience question about aerial maps: 18:08
  • 4. Public sector investments (TIF, NOF, community development grant, proposed TIF-funded projects): 19:40
  • Summary: 23:09

ADU news you can use for May 2023

Last year’s ADU citywide expansion bill was among the majority of unadopted ordinances killed in City Council yesterday, but new 44th Ward Alderperson Lawson introduced a replacement bill . The Chicago Department of Housing is hiring a “housing development coordinator” who will split their time b...

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2023 Q1 sales data has been published

Chicago Cityscape has added the latest quarter of property sales in Cook County. There were 25,009 sales recorded between January 1, 2023, and March 31, 2023. That is a 4.7 percent decrease in sales compared to 2022 Q4.

Our full dataset of Cook County property sales spans the period of 2014 to the first quarter of 2023; data comes from the Illinois Department of Revenue and is updated quarterly, within two weeks of the end of the quarter.

46 percent of these sales and transactions were for Chicago properties. Use the Property Sales Browser to analyze the number and value of sales in other municipalities.

chart showing the number of property sales per quarter between 2019 Q1 and 2023 Q1 inclusive


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