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From $258K to $1.28M for a Kenwood Victorian
The title for this 1890s Victorian home at 5040 S Blackstone Ave in Kenwood bounced around a lot over the past decade. According to Blockshopper, [...]
Nine questions for a landlord
Earlier this month we received a media release from RMK Management's president, Anthony Rossi Jr, offering nine sets of questions that a prospective r [...]
Dewes Mansion finally gets its listing
In November we learned that the Francis J. Dewes Mansion at 503 W Wrightwood Ave in Lincoln Park was available for $9.9 million. Yesterday, the ho [...]
Chicago’s muddled real estate market
When I asked Sam Banks, a real estate agent with Sergio & Banks, for his take on the state of the market, Sam said he was a bit confused.
“The [...]
Will R. Kelly’s old pad be No. 1 in Lake View?
R. Kelly's old den of sin at 1010 W George St (you know, the place where the dirty stuff went down) is under contract and set to close over the fr [...]
Mill Creek – Tanna to host open houses for GreenFields active-adult community
Mill Creek in west suburban Geneva is already known as the "Best Overall Community in the Midwest." This year, it will become one of the country's [...]
Three bedrooms inside a ‘Gothic jewel box’, listed at $779K
Realtor Richard Cohn describes the vintage 10-unit building at 500 - 504 W Barry Ave in Lakeview East as "an architecturally significant, Gothic jewel [...]
Dart family bails out Walton on the Park
Walton on the Park doesn't have to worry about that pesky construction loan anymore. According to Crain's, the Dart family -- owners of Dart Container [...]
Landmark living at $99 per square foot
Last May I stumbled across Fred Scovell's listing for a Queen Anne-style mansion at 2801 S Prairie Ave on the Near South Side. His listing had no [...]
The highest outdoor pool in the Gold Coast
It’s no secret that YoChicago loves video – in part because it’s one of the services we offer to advertisers, but mostly because we think it’s the [...]
One South Halsted presentation scheduled for Wednesday
West Loopers can get the scoop on F&F Realty's One South Halsted proposal during a community meeting scheduled for Wednesday evening.
Alderman Wal [...]
Riding the Red Line: Roosevelt
The third stop on my tour of the Red Line was the Roosevelt station near Roosevelt Road and State Street in the South Loop.
Traveling north fro [...]
An ‘impeccable restoration’ in Wilmette, priced at $2.25M
This 6,000 square-foot single-family home at 744 Sheridan Rd in Wilmette was the Wall Street Journal's House of the Day on Monday. In a 10-photo s [...]
Case-Shiller Tuesday: A ‘dismal start’ to 2011
Home values got off to "a dismal start" this year, according to the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report from Standard & Poor's. Prices in th [...]
A spacious single-family in Lake View, priced below the median
Last week I drove up to Lake View to see one of Eric Rojas' newest listings -- a four-bedroom / 3.5-bath single-family home at 2911 N Racine Ave, [...]
Where are YoChicago readers looking to rent?
It was John Battelle who first tagged the information gathered by Google search as a “database of intentions,” and it seems an apt meme.
Here, [...]
Yet another foreclosure scam?
An agent forwarded me an email touting an upcoming event promoted by the “US Foreclosure Institute” which shares an office with the “US Foreclosur [...]
When death spells opportunity
A doorman called a real estate agent I know to tell her there was a listing coming available in a coveted tier in the building. The occupant had just [...]
Rogers Park gets a LEED Silver building
Cleaning out the Yo inbox is like digging in between sofa cushions -- all sorts of goodies can fall beneath the cracks. Take, for example, the announc [...]
Buy from Lexington, and let Marketplace lease your old home
Are you ready for a new home, but still stuck with your old one? Buy at Lexington Square in Bridgeport or Lexington Park in Des Plaines, and Marke [...]