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Pre-fire five-flat turned single-family listed at $2.2M
Last Friday Prudential Rubloff agent Lindsey Stewart listed her 6,300 square-foot home at 1875 N Fremont St in Lincoln Park at $2.2 million. The b [...]
First-quarter figures: Medians and highs in Lincoln Park
First quarter activity had a lot of our Realtor friends feeling good about the upcoming spring and summer sales seasons. Now that we've reached th [...]
An update on the Children’s Hospital Lincoln Park site
In the video, Belgravia Group founder Buzz Ruttenberg talks about the status of his firm’s proposal (video) to redevelop the Children’s Memorial [...]
Construction checkup: Making way for new apartments in Old Town
Last week Curbed's Mark Boyer caught up with JDL Development prez Jim Letchinger, to get the latest on 1233 North Wells, a new 16-story, 250-unit [...]
Quote of the day – Latin Kings, like tulips
Did you buy a home while the snow lay heavy on the ground following this winter’s blizzard?
Rob and Amy Castaneda, a heroic couple who live in [...]
Winnetka, the teardown capital of Cook County
View Winnetka teardowns & new construction in a larger map
The current issue of Crain’s Chicago Business (subscription required) reports a mode [...]
Buzz Ruttenberg to complete West Loop’s CA23
Crain’s Chicago Business, in a current article (behind the paywall) on Belgravia Group founder Buzz Ruttenberg ’s 70th birthday celebrations, rev [...]
Extraordinary views from a 51st-floor Harbor Point home
Harbor Point’s location affords some of the city’s best views of Grant Park, Millennium Park and the lakefront.
Yesterday morning I met Prude [...]
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 [...]
A newer West Bucktown single-family, under $600K
The more time I spend in the neighborhood that I’m adjusting to calling West Bucktown, the more I’m struck by the amount of new construction and r [...]
A morning view from Harbor Point
Earlier today I met Prudential Rubloff’s Ky Southworth on the 51st floor of Harbor Point at a 3-bedroom, 3 ½ bath, $1.2M condo that enjoys nearly [...]
Sweet guest suites take the stress out of hosting
If you’d like to host overnight guests without pulling out a sleeper sofa, J. Lawrence Homes has a solution.
J. Lawrence gives buyers the opti [...]
Rental watch: 2 homes for $2,000
The median price for a downtown home listed for rent on the MLS is holding steady at $2,000 a month. In the past seven days, two condos, both in the S [...]
Play ball!
If you listened to sports radio this morning, you know the Cubby Bear was packed with drunks by 8 a.m. Baseball has returned to Wrigleyville!
Y [...]
Rental deal of the day: East Lakeview 2/2 for $1,550
We’re kicking off a new feature: the rental deal of the day.
The info for our first few posts comes from the founders of Chicago Rentals Direct, a [...]
Children’s Museum out, Walmart in at Grant Park
With the Chicago Children's Museum looking more and more likely to stay at Navy Pier, the Daley Administration has found a new use for the part of [...]
Don’t like Orchard Village’s prices? Make them an offer
The featured ad at Apartments.com
for Aurora's Orchard Village says "Don't like our prices? Make us an offer."
The analysts tell us that the r [...]
Larger living areas, more options at 600 North Lake Shore Drive
As the market changed, buyers at 600 Lake Shore Drive began telling Stephanie Maloney, a top sales associate at the development, that they would l [...]
Is Rent Proactive shafting landlords?
We’ve written previously asking Ginger Summers of Rent Proactive to cut the crap on Craigslist and on Yelp. Ginger’s with one of the rental servic [...]
Riding the Red Line: Harrison
The first leg of my video tour up the Red Line ended at the Harrison station, the second stop (from south to north) along the line's section of su [...]