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East Lake Shore Drive foreclosure a “once-in-a-lifetime thing”
Dennis Rodkin has the dirt on the "first modern-day foreclosure" to hit East Lake Shore Drive: a 3,800 square-foot condo in the street's only condo bu [...]
Stuff that sells: How much for this Old Town townhome?
In October 2009, Joe Zekas shot a sponsored walk-through of a mint-condition townhome at 1447 N Cleveland Ave in Old Town with Prudential Rubloff' [...]
New to the market: A four-bedroom home “priced for today” in Irving Park
The median list price for an Irving Park single-family built between 2000 and 2010 is in the mid-$600s, which is what the home above sold for back [...]
A brief look at southern Glencoe’s Woodlawn Ave
Home prices have fallen on the North Shore over the past several years, and Glencoe is no exception. The median list price, however, is still abov [...]
What do all those housing numbers mean?
Some home buyers obsess over the latest housing statistics, and their meaning for the future of home prices.
I’ve never been one of those people, i [...]
Will Lincoln Park follow the Edgewater precedent?
Today’s New York Times provides a timely reminder that a vacant hospital site can linger undeveloped for a decade or more, blighting the surroundi [...]
Woodlawn – throwing good money after bad?
The Tribune brings us yet another chapter in the decades-long saga of initiatives to revitalize Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood.
Woodlawn has l [...]
Looking toward a land sale at The Glen
The Glen, a large-scale mixed-use redevelopment of the former Glenview Naval Air Station, has been one of the nation’s most successful development [...]
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In West Pullman, a “mini-mansion” goes for $179,000
Way down in West Pullman, where the 12-month median sale price of a single-family is $27,100 and nothing's listed higher than the $250s, you can [...]
Happy Thanksgiving from YoChicago
All of us at YoChicago give thanks for the abundance we enjoy, and the liberty that enables us to enjoy it to the fullest.
Every Thanksgiving, [...]
Ravenswood and Montrose in Hyde Park?
Move.com recently rolled out a revamp of its rental search, and the site apparently has a few kinks to work out.
Silver Clouds (sic) Apartments [...]
I had to disrobe some, said the architect
Sorry to disappoint, but this post has nothing to do with current events at the TSA.
A conversation with Joe Askins yesterday on the subject of arc [...]
Mortgage lending is still alive on the North Shore
At an open house event in Winnetka, Joe Zekas met Diane Falk, a mortgage loan originator at Fifth Third Bank.
Joe had been hearing stories of p [...]
$4.9 million Cortland Residence in Bucktown lands ALA Design Gold Award
You know that 7,800 square-foot Bucktown home that Curbed featured a couple weeks back? It's an award winner! Nicholas Clark Architects just pulle [...]
New to the market: River North residence back in action for $4.19 million
Few listings cross the $4 million threshold in River North. Until yesterday, only four homes in River North were priced above that mark: a 38th-floor [...]
Stuff that sells: Lake Shore Drive landmark sells for $5.15 million
One of the four lavish, landmarked mansions in the 1200 block of North Lake Shore Drive sold this month for $5.15 million. 1260 N Lake Shore Dr, b [...]
Should North Shore sellers sit out the holiday season?
A question on the minds of many home sellers as Thanksgiving approaches is whether they should take their home off the market during the holiday s [...]
The Curbed sensibility – That’s rather hideous
In general we’ve been thrilled with Curbed’s arrival in Chicago. In general.
Some aspects of Curbed’s sensibility do not, to my way of thinking, tr [...]
Downtown’s new construction market on pace to 600 sales in 2010
“Right now, we’re just kind of glued in place," says Gail Lissner, vice president of Appraisal Research Counselors, in a new Crain's article about [...]