Homewood-Flossmoor October Home Sales

Realty reports show H-F home sales are on the rise even though Homewood median home prices have dropped since last year.

Both Homewood and Flossmoor saw a positive jump in home sales last October compared to a year ago. The news isn't all good, however, as the median price of Homewood home sales dropped fifteen percent. Flossmoor homes, on the other hand, are selling for over 40 percent more than the previous year. The market for detached, single-family homes in suburbs throughout the Southland saw growth in October, according to the Mainstreet Organization of Realtors (MORe). MORe gets its statistics from Midwest Real Estate Data. Oak Forest experienced the most dramatic percent change in the number of homes sold, with an uptick of 144.4 percent in October 2012 over October 2011. The number of actual homes sold this October was 22, compared to the nine sold…

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Homewood's Farmers Market Returns Today

With summer in our midst, it can only mean one thing: the arrival of Farmers Market season!

Farmers Market Motion Will be Revisited

A failed motion by Homewood's Village Board during their March 22 meeting to approve Bensidoun USA as the manager of Homewood's Farmers Market will be revisited, according to Mayor Rich Hofeld.

A failed motion during last Tuesday’s meeting by Homewood’s Village Board to approve Bensidoun USA as the new manager of Homewood’s Farmers Markets will be revisited during the board’s second meeting in April, according to Mayor Rich Hofeld. At least one local Farmers Market vendor is enthused. Kate Duff co-spearheaded her business project, Homewood Kitchen Gardens, two years ago in response to Homewood’s Farmers Market. Duff has participated as a vendor in the Farmers Market during the past two seasons. She was paying special attention to the outcome of last Tuesday’s village board meeting. "What came out (at the meeting) are a lot of the concerns that vendors had,” Duff said. “I felt that Bensidoun answered our questions.” Some of the …

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Kate Duff

1:54 pm on Saturday, June 11, 2011

LOST CHANGE PURSE AT FARMERS MARKET? A customer left a change purse behind at the farmers market this morning. If it's yours, you can claim it at the Homewood Police Department. Also thanks to the many folks who dropped by to share their thoughts about the market; we had some terrific feedback, and it's much appreciated. Kate   more ›