{"id":40,"date":"2026-09-30T21:19:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/chicago-housing-shortage-pushes-home-prices-higher\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:19:53","slug":"chicago-housing-shortage-pushes-home-prices-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/30\/chicago-housing-shortage-pushes-home-prices-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago housing shortage pushes home prices higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Home prices in Chicago rose 13% in July from a year ago, reaching a median of $425,000, while suburban prices increased nearly 7% to $401,000. Chicago led the nation in annual median price growth among major markets. Despite higher prices, the city remains more affordable than many large cities. Limited inventory, down 56% since 2019, keeps the market competitive, with homes selling faster than the national average.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/chicago\/2026\/08\/25\/chicago-housing-market-median-price-425000-july-2026\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home prices in Chicago rose 13% in July from a year ago, reaching a median of $425,000, while suburban prices increased nearly 7% to $401,000. Chicago led the nation in annual median price growth among major markets. Despite higher prices, the city remains more affordable than many large cities. Limited inventory, down 56% since 2019, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}