Lockport

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This is a one-of-kind custom home in Lockport in Oak Creek Subdivision.  4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms, 3 car garage, basement, slate tile from Italy, hardwood and read on for more!

This is located on a large corner lot - 82X132X123x114 that is professionally landscaped with a fenced back yard.  The 3 car garage has a side drive and entry.

Step into the foyer and you'll be greeted with the beautiful wooden floating staircase.  The formal living room is to the right and the formal dining room is to the left. Straight through is the family room with a slate fireplace and beautiful windows.

The family room is open to the gourmet kitchen with plenty of cabinets, granite counter

2015 Real Estate Sales Statistics

The table below will show real estate sales statistics for [detached] single family homes comparing 2014 and 2015. I have tried to list each suburb/area on my mailing list of prior clients. If you'd like to see the stats on another suburb please let me know in the comment section.  The towns with a link will take you to individual stat pages over the years for that particular suburb.

There is a program for buyers of Crest Hill, Joliet and Lockport homes for sale. Home buyers in those towns could qualify for up to $10,000 towards the down payment and/or closing costs. It is The Illinois Building Blocks Program and is being offered by the Illinois Housing Development Authority.

This program is geared for families that might not otherwise be able to purchase a home because of lack of enough cash to cover closing costs and down payments required to qualify for a mortgage loan. It was created to get rid of the current inventory of vacant homes in these 3 towns, which will help revitalize each town. When a town has a glut of vacant foreclosed properties they become vandalized and continue bringing value down for other properties.

Our main villages are listed below. Click on the links to access each village's main page that offers a list of that town's single family homes for sale along with current village real estate data such as amount of properties currently for sale and average, high and low prices.  You'll also get information about the towns with helpful links to local information.

Frankfort
Homer Glen
Lemont
Lockport
Mokena
New Lenox
Orland Hills
Orland Park
Palos Park

These are basically border towns and we're based in Homer Glen and Orland Park.  As a family team, we are able to go outside of these areas and cover almost any Chicago suburb, so please contact us if you're interested in a city not on this list.  Jimmy Herter will also show Chicago real estate.  Also check our

Now that I have a 3 person family team we are able to go out of our normal service area which spans around Oak Lawn/Evergreen Park to the northeast, La Grange area to the near west, Lockport, Lemont and New Lenox to the southwest and Oak Forest to the southeast and everything in between. Those are just general parameters and we do go out of them regularly, but for this article we will stick to our smaller area. Here are the top 5 southwest suburbs that we work in with the most amount of single family home sales for 2012:

1. Oak Lawn - 448
2. Orland Park - 325
3. Lockport - 294
4. Frankfort - 275
5. New Lenox - 265

Our Northern IL MLS used to be the largest in the nation and it is still up there. Some states are consolidating into statewide

Now that I have a 3 person family team we are able to go out of our normal service area which spans around Oak Lawn/Evergreen Park to the northeast, La Grange area to the near west, Lockport, Lemont and New Lenox to the southwest and Oak Forest to the southeast and everything in between. Those are just general parameters and we do go out of them regularly, but for this article we will stick to our smaller area. Here are the top 5 southwest suburbs that we work in with the most amount of single family home sales for 2012:

1. Oak Lawn - 448
2. Orland Park - 325
3. Lockport - 294
4. Frankfort - 275
5. New Lenox - 265

Our Northern IL MLS used to be the largest in the nation and it is still up there. Some states are consolidating into statewide

I recently shared 1st half of 2011 sales activity for only 4 neighboring towns and decided to add more towns in my service area. The table below will show sales activity for the 1st half of 2011 for single family Homer Glen homes, Lemont, Lockport, Mokena, New Lenox, Orland Hills, Orland Park and Palos Park.

This home is sold but if you'd like to see Lockport homes currently available for sale, click the link.

SOLD! This beautiful two-story styled home in the Victoria Crossings subdivision in Lockport, IL is priced right at $283,900. It offers 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths and a 2 car attached garage.

As you step inside you're greeted by a two-story foyer with a view to the beautiful open oak staircase. The living room and formal dining room offer a vaulted ceiling. The eat-in kitchen has an island and a charming eating area. You can step through the sliding doors to the 600 sq. ft. deck facing the huge, fully fenced back yard. The main floor family room is open to the kitchen. The four bedrooms are all upstairs and feature colorful children's murals in two

Today my son Chad & I & the grandkids were going to get together and attempt to exercise by walking the trail along the I&M Canal in Lockport. It was an attempt only. Last time we did it was hot and humid and looked like it was going to rain. It was a nice, tree-lined trail to start out but ended up being a long, one-way trail out in the open and we had no idea where we'd end up so we turned around after about a half hour of walking.

Since it was cooler we figured we'd do the same thing but wouldn't mind it so much since we wouldn't be sweating. Talk about not sweating, it was freezing out and extremely windy. OK, there were elderly ladies walking up the street wearing only sweaters but Chad & I were cold. I was afraid the little grandchildren would be