Photos: Most Expensive Real Estate Listing in Niles-Morton Grove

Check out 9319 Harlem Avenue in Morton Grove, listed for $799,000. This is currently the most expensive home for sale in Niles and Morton Grove.

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Niles Among Highest in Paid-Off Homes

Crain's Chicago Business reports a stunning 47.1 percent of Niles homeowners own their homes outright. Morton Grove dazzles also, with 37.3 percent of homeowners being mortgage-free.

  Communities with a large segment of senior citizens or high median incomes tend to have the highest percentage mortgage-free homes, according to Crain’s Chicago Business.  According to the Crain's analysis, 8,863 Niles homeowners or 47.1 percent, are mortgage-free. Morton Grove boasts similar numbers with 7,652 homeowners or 37.3 without a home loan. These numbers all well above the Chicagoland average of 26 percent of homeowners being mortgage-free.  If you own a home, are you still paying off your mortgage? When will you be mortgage-free? 

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Illinois Home Foreclosures Top National Average

See addresses of Morton Grove homes listed in foreclosure on AOL Real Estate.

  Illinois home foreclosure activity is four times the national average, reports Chicago Real Estate Daily. Data reflects nearly 138,000 homes in Illinios were in "foreclosure inventory" at the end of the first quarter, 36 percent higher than the same period last year, according to the story. The highest increase was in the number of pre-foreclosure homes pending repossession, reported Chicago Real Estate Daily. Area home foreclosures listed on AOL Real Estate include:

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Niles, Morton Grove Home Sale Prices Drop

Chicago Magazine reports sale prices from 2012 were slightly lower than in 2011.

  Home sale prices in Niles and Morton Grove are slightly down, according to a recent Chicago Magazine article. The article profiled what homes cost in several suburbs and Chicago neighborhoods. The magazine’s data showed the median sale price for a home in Niles in 2012 was $220,000, down 2.2 percent from 2011 and 45 percent since 2006. The median sale price for a Morton Grove home in 2012 was also $220,000, down 6.4 percent since 2011 and 44.3 percent from 2006.  Read the whole report and see what neighboring communities home sales data looks like on Chicago Magazine's website. 

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Cook County Real Estate Database

Want to see who sold their home in Cook County? Patch has compiled a searchable ongoing list of property sales in Cook County, based on data from the Cook County Recorder of Deeds.

Want to know how much that house down the block sold for or how many million dollar home sales there were in your community last year? Patch has put together a searchable real estate database of Cook County property sales that is updated twice a month as new data is received from the Cook County Recorder of Deeds. You can search by address (the field will fill in automatically as you start typing, but be patient — it may take a moment to catch up with you), or search a full town or a specific price range within a town. You can also search by the buyer or seller's name (and those fields will fill automatically as well). If no price is listed, or other information is missing, it is because it was not included in the information from the …

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What Did it Sell For?

What's your home worth? Here's a list of residential properties in Morton Grove that recently sold and what they were purchased for, from AOL Real Estate.

  7237 Foster StMorton Grove, IL 60053 9246 Nagle AveMorton Grove, IL 60053 8950 Belleforte AveMorton Grove, IL 60053 7952 Foster StMorton Grove, IL 60053 6520 Hoffman TerMorton Grove, IL 60053 9101 Austin AveMorton Grove, IL 60053 7736 Arcadia StMorton Grove, IL 60053 6713 Maple StMorton Grove, IL 60053 8831 Oketo AveMorton Grove, IL 60053 9536 Oleander AveMorton Grove, IL 60053 Information on homes and their selling prices from AOL Real Estate. 

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Open Houses: Aug. 12

Are you looking for a new home?

If you're in the market for a home, stop by these open houses Sunday during the listed times. Realtors welcome you to take a look.

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Wow House: Canterbury Park Stunner

Built in 2006, 1230 Canterbury Lane offers 3,500 square feet of modern luxury in East Glenview.

From elegant and stately mansions to modern, environmentally-friendly abodes, The North Shore is chock-full of one-of-a-kind homes. Each week, Patch will feature one ‘Wow House’ that caught our attention. This week, a Glenview gem situated in East Glenview's Canterbury Park steals the show. Listed at just over $1 million, this dream home boasts six bedrooms, five and a half baths and great attention to detail. Here, take a peek inside, and see what this high-end price tag fetches in 60025. (For more details on the home, check out the PDF above). Is your home a ‘Wow’ House? Want to nominate a spectacular, unusual or just plain cool property on the North Shore? E-mail us: joanna@patch.com

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What Did It Sell For? Latest Niles Home Sales

What did your new neighbors pay for their property? Find out here.

  From RealEstate.aol.com: 6701 N Milwaukee Ave Niles, IL 60714 7507 W Mulford St Niles, IL 60714 8456 N Osceola Ave Niles, IL 60714 6755 N Milwaukee Ave 504 Niles, IL 60714 9500 N Washington St Niles, IL 60714 9074 W Terrace Dr Apt 4b Niles, IL 60714 7061 W Touhy Ave Apt 507 Niles, IL 60714 8250 N Oketo Ave Niles, IL 60714 7120 N Milwaukee Ave 213 Niles, IL 60714 Like Niles-Morton Grove Patch to talk real estate Get Niles and Morton Grove news delivered in your email. It's free. 

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Wow House: $2.4M Lakefront Mansion Dates to 1926

Located in the Lakeshore Historic District in southeast Evanston, this stunning English Tudor has four bedrooms and four and a half baths.

From elegant and stately mansions to modern, environmentally-friendly abodes, The North Shore is chock-full of one-of-a-kind homes. Each week, Patch features one ‘Wow House’ that caught our attention. This week, take a peek inside a $2.4 million, 4,300-square-foot English Tudor in Evanston that dates to 1926.  Located in the city's Lakeshore Historic District, 1140 Lake Shore Boulevard has four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms and lakefront views in nearly every room. Notable features include a two-story living room with wood-beamed ceiling, French doors, fireplace and a bay window facing Lake Michigan, as well as a rec room, photography dark room and full bath with spa.

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