Author: Joseph Askins
Bids arriving for Silver Tower’s bulk sale
In March Crain's reported that Bank of America planned to sell Silver Tower's inventory in bulk, and could stand to pull in as $16 million as a result [...]
$1M off over seven months for a Howe Street home
A $300,000 price cut over the weekend has brought this 5,400 square-foot, five-bedroom / 4.5-bath home at 1924 N Howe St in Lincoln Park down to $ [...]
Quote of the day: Home values see biggest quarterly drop since ’08
"Home value declines are currently equal to those we experienced during the darkest days of the housing recession. With accelerating declines during t [...]
Weekend reads from the news feed
Not every story we add to our Chicago Real Estate News feed warrants "top story" status or a "quote of the day" post, but that doesn't make it any les [...]
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Four options for one-bedrooms in 60602
The 60602 ZIP code, which covers the part of the Loop stretching from Michigan Avenue (and therefore Millennium Park) west to Wells Street and from Ra [...]
Riding the Red Line: Wilson
Today's stop: the Wilson Red Line station in Uptown. It only smelled a little on the day I shot footage.
Watch all of my Riding the Red Line vi [...]
Loft living: A corner timber loft with skyline views in Lincoln Park, priced at $449K
Brick and timber buffs might want to check out one of the newest listings in Lincoln Park: a 1,700 square-foot, two-bedroom / two-bath corner unit [...]
New rental high-rise sites west of the Loop
Joe Zekas was in the West Loop on business yesterday but found some time to stop by the sites of three proposed high-rises -- One South Halsted, C [...]
Site of scrapped River North high-rise listed as a $3.14M short sale
LG Development Group had big ideas for the 15,295 square-foot lot at 111 W Chestnut St in River North. Three years ago, LG started pursuing the approv [...]
‘Home Alone’ house available for $2.4M
It's a little after 9:30 a.m., which means that everyone's already mined the good quotations and bad puns for this story. I'll keep it simple -- t [...]
Riding the Red Line: Sheridan
The Sheridan Red Line station, located just south of Irving Park Road, is the subject of today's Riding the Red Line video. Like the Belmont stati [...]
SoNo East — a construction checkup bonus
We followed up our photo checkup of 1233 North Wells with a video checkup, so we might as well follow our SoNo photo with a video, too. Last Frida [...]
Webster Square gets City Council’s approval
I don’t want to have an empty hospital sitting around for the next couple of years. I mean, that’s not going to be good. Children’s [Memorial Hosp [...]
Rental deal of the day: An Astoria Tower 2 BR with one month paid and a $100 bonus
Today's rental deal of the day from Chicago Rentals Direct is a brand new, never-occupied two-bedroom / two-bath apartment at Astoria Tower, 8 E 9 [...]
From the vault: The skyline from Lincoln Park
There's no surprise that Trump owned our YouTube traffic in April -- he would have even if he hadn't been in the news all month.
One of the 10 [...]
New Lakeshore East tower could break ground in June
On Monday, Curbed's Mark Boyer shared some new renderings of Magellan Development's next endeavor at Lakeshore East: a Brininstool, Kerwin & Lynch [...]
Winnetka mansion tops suburban sales in April
May is only four days old, but the North Shore may have already seen the top sale for the month: Curbed says a Lake Forest mansion has just closed [...]
Construction checkup: The Oak at Parkside of Old Town
One of the four construction sites Joe Zekas and I drove past last Friday was at the corner of Oak and Larrabee streets, where Parkside of Old Tow [...]
1233 North Wells: a construction checkup, video-style
At the same time that I was posting up some new still photos from the construction site at 1233 N Wells St in Old Town, Joe Zekas was editing his [...]