Category: Trends
What does it take to win some Facebook fans?
Here's a new variation on an old way of winning friends: You can win a new iMac from Lennar this summer if you become a fan of the company's Facebook [...]
Using closed bids to figure out the market
In November I wrote about a "sealed-bid auction" that Barbara O'Connor of Koenig & Strey GMAC Real Estate planned to hold at S&S Home Builders [...]
Tracking neighborhood trends with EveryBlock
Last winter, Adrian Holovaty launched EveryBlock, a Web site that aggregates news and public records by location, allowing visitors to punch in their [...]
Will fashion shows or free cars bring in buyers?
Because those are the kinds of incentive and event announcements I'm finding in my inbox these days.
I'm not sure whether it's a gussied-up sales pit [...]
We love lists: Perfect places for pool parties
A few well-paced laps can be a great way to start off a day or finish off an evening. Most towers we visit have fitness centers (even if they're jus [...]
AyA Kitchens offers quality cabinets in the blink of an eye
Back in the days when microwaves were just science-fiction jargon, our grandparents were content simply if the oven didn’t burn the roast. Technolog [...]
R+D659 the latest building to get a touch of red
When it comes to designing condo buildings in Chicago this year, red is the new black. Take, for example, that fire-engine red fin peeking out from be [...]
If these walls could rock…
Favorite Music: radiohead, death cab for cutie, Kanye West, OAR, the shins, lupe fiasco, Beck, Bloc Party, the clash, the cure, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Black [...]
What we search for when we search for homes
With apologies to Raymond Carver...
Anyone who has looked at a PageRank meter recently or uploaded a video onto YouTube knows that Google has plent [...]
Development roundup: Avondale, near the river
Now that the Chicago River less resembles the toxic cesspool it once was, Chicago residents no longer avoid the river for fear of contracting typhoid [...]
Quote of the day: Bringing the city down
A recent article in The Atlantic magazine suggests that the emptying out of large public housing projects and the de-concentration of poverty (pdf) ha [...]
Expect few new announcements in 2008 as developers move existing product
By Gail Lissner
Home pricing in the Chicago market has been holding up well through November 2007, based on the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index [...]
Chicago's hottest neighborhoods
After more than a decade of unprecedented growth, the Chicago housing market is showing signs of a slowdown. The low interest rates that helped fuel [...]
Suite dreams
Buyers have high hopes, little experience with new housing hybrid
Businessman Steve Snyder bought two hotel condos at the Solis Chicago Condominium [...]
Lap of luxury
Developer launches tony new hotel brand with Elysian hotel and condos
Take one look at drawings for The Elysian Hotel and Private Residences, a 60- [...]
The bargain hunt
They're growing rare, but deals remain for those in the know
Wouldn't it be nice to turn back the clock to that golden age, just six months ago, when [...]
Lost in the Loop
Hidden gems make Loop livable for those with the inside track
Dr. Maria Gracias already had the inside scoop on just how great the Loop could be when [...]
Own to rent
Buyers embrace hotel condos but struggle with options, projections
From beach houses to timeshares, Americans are always looking for new means of esc [...]
Gaining converts
Highrise condo conversion boom is biggest since '79
Rob and Linda Williams spent a year and a half scouring Chicago for the perfect condominium, but [...]
On the rise
Something good is happening to highrise design in Chicago
It must be tall, every inch of it tall. The force and power of altitude must be in it, the [...]