Category: Uncategorized

1 475 476 477 478 479 632 9540 / 12637 POSTS
From $258K to $1.28M for a Kenwood Victorian

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

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

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 – 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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?

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

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

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 [...]
1 475 476 477 478 479 632 9540 / 12637 POSTS