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Snuffing out a stupid Realtor trick
Kudos to Midwest Real Estate Data, the local Multiple Listing Service, for what appears to be a prompt smackdown of a stupid Realtor trick that we [...]
Curbed gets a better look at SoNo East
There's your building, folks. California-based architect Adam Berkelhamer sent Curbed new renderings of SoNo East, the 22-story, rental-only compa [...]
New stuff: 879 North Marshfield in East Village
Buyers now have three more homes to consider when looking at new construction in West Town. Yesterday Samantha Porter of @properties listed the units [...]
A good start to 2011 for The Apostal Group
Last week Nicholas Apostal called to set up video tours through two properties. By the time we met on Wednesday, we could only shoot at one, becau [...]
Wilmette for less than a Parker
A Parker is a unit of currency whose value is equal to the annual cost of sending a single child to Francis Parker School in Lincoln Park. The val [...]
Checking in: Glanville wants an offer in Bucktown
A few months ago I pointed readers to a Bucktown single-family that former Cub and current ESPN analyst Doug Glanville was trying to sell for $899,000 [...]
Selling in 2011 — one brokerage’s advice
Joe Zekas visited a local brokerage's sales meeting this morning and brought back a market report delivered to agents from the brokerage's president a [...]
A Michigan Avenue condo ‘with the convenience of a suburban ranch house’
Dennis Rodkin's latest Deal Estate video is a must-see, both for the condo's abundance of antique furnishings and for the lively commentary offere [...]
Sales down slightly, median prices down more for Chicago area in 2010
Sales of new and existing homes in the Chicago metro area fell 0.5% from 2009 to 2010, and the median sale price fell by 5.6%, from $196,000 to $185,0 [...]
Quote of the day: ‘An apartment-flipper market’
"It’s almost like we went from a condo-flipper market to an apartment-flipper market."
- Ron DeVries, vice-president at Appraisal Research Counsel [...]
Going up: Trump’s ‘best tier’ back at a $1.35M markup
Chezi Rafaeli of Coldwell Banker says the A-tier units of Trump's 41st through 49th floors are the best in the building, so popular with early pre-con [...]
New listing bucks price trends at The Glen in Glenview
Several months back I reported, in the above video, on single-family homes at The Glen in Glenview that were languishing on the market at prices b [...]
Lexington Park’s Des Plaines location takes the stress out of a daily commute
For most who have experienced it, the daily commute to and from downtown Chicago conjures up images of bumper-to-bumper traffic on the expressways [...]
Construction checkup: An Oak grows in Cabrini
Parkside of Old Town's next rental mid-rise is going up at the northeast corner of Larrabee and Oak streets, two blocks south of Cabrini Green's r [...]
Berkus lists Gold Coast condo for $2.65M
Occasionally you'll find a "Nate Berkus home" on the market, but it's not every day that Nate Berkus' home goes up for sale.
Oprah's favorite desi [...]
New homes ready now at Mill Creek – Tanna in Geneva
Homeowners still on the fence about selling their current homes should know that "the time is now — if they want to sidestep more marketplace comp [...]
A year later, $200K less in Wilmette
The 5-bedroom, 4 ½ bath, 2-car garage home on a corner lot at 1418 Elmwood Ave in Wilmette had only been on the market for 5 days when I visited a [...]
Terrazio ramps up leasing effort
I've heard from two readers in the past day about a new "Now Leasing" banner hanging outside Terrazio, 1935 S Wabash Ave in the South Loop. One ev [...]
River City three-bedroom now 79% below ’03 price
River City made news last summer after rainwater flooded its condos and garage, but there's been a redder kind of liquid seeping from the building [...]
Choice cuts: Assumption School penthouse cut by 31% over 9 months
Won't someone claim this penthouse? The fourth-floor unit in the old Assumption School building at 319 W Erie St in River North is one of seven th [...]