Category: New condos
Bucktown and beyond from Urban Sandbox
You don't have to climb too high to get a good view of your surroundings in Bucktown and Wicker Park. Here's what I could see from the deck atop the [...]
New to New Home Notebook in 2009
We read a lot of stories these days about the lack of financing and demand for new construction, but developers have announced fair number of pr [...]
Emerald makes sales, gets new retail tenants
Buyers have written eight contracts for homes at Emerald in the past month, and two new stores are ready to move into the development's retail spaces, [...]
Helios not scuttling the 2800 Lincoln battleship
Alan tipped us off in January that the lot at 2800 N Lincoln Ave in Lake View was listed on the MLS, a sign that Helios Realty & Development mig [...]
Inside R+D659's two-bedroom / two-bath model
The furnished model at R+D659, located at 659 W Randolph St in the West Loop, is a 1,147 square-foot two-bedroom / two-bath condo on the northeast c [...]
Cityscape Condos: Case study in efflorescence
Every winter, new-construction masonry buildings develop white splotches that make them look as though they've been stained by road salt. The stains t [...]
Sales update: Bank-owned soft lofts in Lincoln Park rebranded, repriced by 30 percent
The median price per square foot in Lincoln Park is around $329 for condos and $414 overall, according to Redfin's number-crunchers. At a familiar n [...]
The Courts at Lincoln Square's identity crisis
This 49-unit development at 4950 N Western Ave is officially playing the name game.
When it was first unveiled by Ruh Realty all the way back in 2006 [...]
DenMax's Lumiere reaches the halfway point
Near the end of our conversation about the Baer Lofts on Tuesday, @properties agent Mike Vesole mentioned that units were moving nicely at another o [...]
One, two, three, 10, 20, 30 at Optima Woods
That complex, changing skyline you see as you drive along the Edens Expressway across from the Old Orchard shopping center is Optima Old Orchard Woo [...]
A TIF tiff with Alderman Munoz
There's doubtless a back-story to this that may cast the encounter in a different light. Until someone supplies that story, we'll let this stand on [...]
The Baldwin's yellow street presence
When I introduced the three Greenline developments on the 6600 block of South Ingleside Avenue in December, the first two -- The Myers and The Hathaw [...]
New homes at North and Oakley finally for sale
This four-story building at 1605 N Oakley Ave at the border of Bucktown and Wicker Park has been on my radar for a long time, simply because it's so [...]
Lobby shot is our first peek inside 757 Orleans
We still haven't gotten a good look inside The Gammonley Group's 757 Orleans @ Chicago, but Joe Zekas visited the building at the beginning of this [...]
Pilsen's Chantico South pursues FHA approval
It's not a done deal just yet, but the word from Carol Ann Walls-Sandell of Jameson Real Estate is that all nine of the Chantico South condos at 16 [...]
Who wants the last Flat on Fulton?
Around this time two years ago, the YoChicago staff spent some time looking at the "burgeoning" East Garfield Park and the smattering of new develop [...]
Last stop: A one-bedroom / one-bath penthouse atop 1720 South Michigan
The only one-bedroom condo I entered at 1720 South Michigan last Saturday was this, a 1,091 square-foot one-bedroom / one-bath on the tower's top fl [...]
Our first look inside Parkside's Hudson mid-rise
Most of Parkside of Old Town's Phase I homes were ready for occupancy by mid-2008. By that point, we had already taken a look at one of the developm [...]
Sales update: Latest prices for Parkside homes
Following my conversation with Parkside of Old Town sales manager Catherine Hughey last week, I received a fax with the latest price points for all [...]
Jameson's first Trio listings emerge
Earlier this month, agent Dave Mahoney said he expected few price reductions at Trio following the development's shift from Coldwell Banker to James [...]