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2024 Housing Market Outlook with Dr. Daniel McMillen

2024-02-07T11:09:50-06:00

Listen as Dr. Daniel McMillen of the University of Illinois-Chicago, assesses what lies ahead for the Illinois housing market in 2024. McMillen is a professor of Real Estate and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the College of Business Administration.

Housing inventory plays an important role, he says. So do inflation, interest rates and housing prices. He sees several reasons for optimism.

Listen to his message and download the 2024 Illinois Housing Market Forecast.

Dr. Daniel McMillen’s latest housing assessment and forecast

2023-05-11T11:56:31-05:00

Join Dr. Daniel McMillen, head of the Stuart Handler Department of Real Estate (SHDRE) at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration, for a look at Illinois’ spring housing market and his thoughts about a rebound from the winter downturn. In today’s podcast, he discusses factors that encourage him, and he compares the current market to the pre-COVID market. Listen and learn more about his assessment of mortgage interest rate fluctuations, recent bank failures, low inventory, inflation and consumer confidence, among other things.

McMillen previews Illinois’ residential real estate market for fourth quarter

2022-10-20T10:06:11-05:00

Listen as Dr. Daniel McMillen, head of the Stuart Handler Department of Real Estate at the University of Illinois-Chicago College of Business Administration, gives you a sense of what’s ahead for the state’s residential real estate market for the last three months of the year. Dr. McMillen and his team provide Illinois REALTORS® with monthly, quarterly and annual housing forecasts.

McMillen Forecast the Summer Housing Market

2022-07-05T12:07:15-05:00

What effect will inflation, rising mortgage interest rates and supply have on Illinois’ housing market in 2022? Will today’s trends affect first-time home buyers and those who want to move out of starter homes the same way? What is the market for renters? Join the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Dr. Daniel McMillen for an analysis of the key issues in Illinois’ 2022 housing market.

2022 Illinois Housing Forecast

2021-12-01T15:42:23-06:00

In a new podcast, we talk to Dr. Daniel McMillen, head of the Stuart Handler Department of Real Estate at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration, about his forecast for next year’s market.

ROI with Geoffrey Hewings: Foreclosure

2020-06-16T11:36:13-05:00

Foreclosure inventory had steadily declined between 2012 and 2017, but in recent years has begun to climb again. What is causing the increase? And as the pandemic has prompted many Illinois homeowners to delay mortgage payments through forbearance, what will that mean for future foreclosure trends? Learn more in this quick 5-minute video.

ROI with Geoffrey Hewings: Population Trends

2020-06-16T11:37:22-05:00

Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, director emeritus of the Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL) at the University of Illinois, talks about recent population trends in Illinois and whether the COVID-19 outbreak will have an impact on future migration. Get the update with this 4-minute video.

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