Cook County launches Housing Market Tracker

The Cook County Assessor’s Office has launched its new Housing Market Tracker, a first-of-its-kind interactive map that shows real estate trends and individual sales in the county.

The tracker contains data on sale prices from 2020 to 2024 across different residential property types: single-family homes, condos and multifamily buildings with 6 units or less. The assessor’s office receives the data from the Illinois Department of Revenue and uses them to fulfill its statutory duty of updating assessments to follow market trends.

“While this data was available previously, it was difficult for non-experts to understand,” Assessor Fritz Kaegi said in an announcement of the launch. “Now, for the first time ever, homeowners, journalists and policymakers have a free and accessible tool to see what’s going on in their local real estate market and across Cook County.”

The tracker is available at www.cookcountyassessoril.gov/cook-county-housing-market-tracker.