CHICAGO (CBS) – You sent us an email, you tweeted us, you posted on Facebook. Morning Insiders continue to investigate complaints about construction noise while people are stuck at home.

Lauren Victory of CBS 2 investigated why condominium conversions are allowed in Chicago and banned in other cities.

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From rehab units to building-wide brickwork, the construction noise drives some people crazy.

A disgruntled Steve Dishler posted a video on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Twitter page about construction noise in his Lakeview building after management, his city council and the Department of Buildings said nothing illegal was happening so the work did not stop can be

“A thousand people live in this building. The students are obviously unable to carry out their work. Parents cannot rest their babies during the day. I cannot do my job. It’s incredibly inconsiderate, ”he said.

Ask the city to step in pic.twitter.com/GG8BFrPkm4

– Steve Dishler (@SteveDishler) April 22, 2020

How many other people are fed up with recording their moves in public? CBS 2 reviewed the 311 logs. Within a few minutes’ walk of Dishler’s building, two complaints about equipment noise have been filed in the past 20 days.

CBS 2 asked Governor JB Pritzker’s office why condominium remodeling and facade work were not on hold until the stay at home order was cleared.

Consider other cities like Boston that have stopped construction since March unless it’s an emergency. San Francisco limited the crew to health and public works projects. Elective additions and maintenance are prohibited in Dallas. so is remodeling.

In Illinois, the governor’s stay at home makes construction an essential business.

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Although the mayor can shut down the lakefront and large parks, city officials said they had opted for condominium associations to call for building construction to be stopped.

This might be a mystery to some housing associations.

“We as the building’s representative could be sued for unauthorized conclusions from a contract,” an anonymous woman told us about the ongoing construction work on her condominium building.

She said it was impossible to get anything done with all the noise the work made.

“I was sometimes unable to attend work meetings because it was so loud,” she said. “When I asked how long it was going to be, they said they still have a lot of woodwork to do.”

The threat of bills prevented the apartment sign from putting down the gavel for renovation work in the building.

“I just think that the state shouldn’t make them choose between taking legal action and protecting residents,” the woman said.

CBS 2 never heard directly from the governor’s office, but Pritzker answered a question about city rules at Monday’s press conference.

“The communities have the option to have stricter rules than we have proposed on any subject,” he said.

A city spokesman reiterated that residents can call 311 with noise complaints.

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But the low prices for single-family homes on the vast New York City subway are skyrocketing 15%, fueled by fleeing Manhattanites?

By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.

The headlines are everywhere: the real estate market has gone crazy with ridiculous bidding wars and ridiculous price increases. Record low interest rates last year and $ 3 trillion from the Fed’s miracle moolah sparked this phenomenon, along with people leaving some large, expensive cities for the suburbs, outskirts and distant places whose prices rose under the influx while many Graduates Didn’t Still, they put their vacant old houses on the market in hopes of spurring price hikes and thereby reducing inventory for sale. But not all things are created equal, as we’ll see in condos and houses by price tier in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and the New York Subway, based on today’s S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Price Index for Homes.

Condominium prices in the San Francisco Bay Area are falling.

Condo prices in the five-county San Francisco Bay Area fell 1.2% in January versus December, the eighth straight month of monthly declines. The index is down 1.5% from January last year, 5.1% from its high in May 2020, and roughly back to February 2018:

The Case-Shiller Index for “San Francisco” includes the counties of San Francisco, San Mateo (northern part of Silicon Valley), Alameda and Contra Costa (East Bay), and Marin (North Bay). It does not include the southern part of Silicon Valley, including San Jose, and most of North Bay (wine country counties Sonoma and Napa) and Solano Counties.

In San Francisco County, condominiums make up the majority of the market. In the other counties, houses are the majority.

Quite a few people have moved from San Francisco to the outskirts of the Bay Area. The move to Marin County is canceled because it is in the index. But people have also moved to other counties not on the index, such as Sonoma County, whose real estate market is hot in part due to the influx of people from San Francisco.

The prices of all single-family homes in the five-county San Francisco Bay Area increased 0.2% in January versus December and increased 9.5% year over year. According to price levels:

• Low prices (black line) fell 0.4% in January from December, the first month-to-month decline since 2019, after rising the most in 2020. The decline in January reduced the year-on-year gain to 10.8% (from 11.4% in December)
• The high prices remained unchanged in Decemberand increased by 7.9% compared to the previous year.
• Average prices rose 0.4% in January from December and increased by 10.8% over the previous year.

Los Angeles condo prices left behind by real estate prices.

Single-family home prices on the Los Angeles subway rose 1.0% from December in January and 10.8% from January 2020. Different developments can be seen according to price levels:

Low house prices show by far the biggest rises during the booms and by far the biggest slumps during the busts, having collapsed 56% from the top of Housing Bubble 1 to the bottom of Housing Bust. Since then, they have skyrocketed 163% and have nearly quadrupled since January 2000. In January, low prices rose 1.4% compared to December and 10.4% year-on-year.

Senior real estate prices are the least volatile. They have “not even tripled” since January 2000 (that sounds crazy). During the real estate bankruptcy they only fell by “33%” and have increased by “only” 84% since then. In January they rose by 0.9% compared to December and by 8.7% compared to the previous year.

The prices for condominiums rose compared to the previous month by 0.6% and compared to the previous year by 5.2%, which corresponds to about half of the price increases for medium- and low-level houses compared to the previous year.

New York subway condominium prices are still tied to bandwidth.

The Case-Shiller Index for New York City includes New York City and numerous counties in the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. This is a huge and diverse market.

Condominium prices in the area rose 0.5% in January versus December and rose 1.7% year over year. They’ve stayed in the same narrow area since January 2018, speckled with some major up and down movements:

Low-ranking house prices on the New York subway rose 1.4% in January versus December and 14.9% year over year. This includes homes in lower-priced areas of the market that Manhattan graduates have rushed to, causing prices to rise.

Average house prices rose 11.2% year-on-year. Senior home prices rose 11.3%; In the past few months, high prices have started to top Housing Bubble 1’s high. But condos didn’t participate in the price hikes that homes reveled in.

The map is on the same scale as the corresponding Los Angeles and San Francisco maps to show how much faster prices have risen on the two California subways over the years than the New York subway. But since 2020 real estate prices have been burning across the board in the New York subway, but condominiums are not:

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