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Little movement in city building permits in two years
Jeff Baird is a real estate valuation consultant based in Chicago. He founded Lakeshore Analytics to bring comprehensive, understandable housing d [...]
Sales update: Five sales at 433 Briar since new discount rollout
The latest word from 433 Briar in Lake View is "so far, so good." Since an affiliate of Belgravia Group brought 17 two- and three-bedrooms back to th [...]
New to the market: Twice the price for a quickly renovated Beverly home
This Tudor-style home at 9915 S Bell Ave in Beverly sold in July for $212,000, with the understanding that it needed some TLC. It originally was b [...]
Fifty years of Marina City
This is the 50th anniversary of the official, shiny-shovel groundbreaking ceremony for Marina City, Bertrand Goldberg's iconic city-within-a-city [...]
Creating a full-floor home in River North
Locals call Superior 110 "the blue building" because of the striking tint of its floor-to-ceiling windows. As you'll see in this video, the camera [...]
In other news – good reads from the 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 [...]
Is that trailer park in Northfield or Glenview or neither?
I frankly don’t know whether Sunset Village, which bills itself as “Glenview’s finest manufactured home community,” is in Northfield or Glenview o [...]
Yo in review: November 13 – 20
Welcome to a new YoChicago
Could Waterview move ahead as an office tower?
How Sandz Development will build Webster Square
Searching for sta [...]
Two Bridgeport restaurants make Michelin’s list of “Bib Gourmand” faves
This week Jeff Benach of Lexington Homes tipped us off about two restaurants near his Lexington Square townhomes in Bridgeport that made the Miche [...]
Crain’s: Block 37 on course to foreclosure sale
A Cook County judge issued a foreclosure order against Block 37 earlier today, paving the way for a foreclosure sale sometime in early 2011, Crain [...]
Walking Evanston’s lakefront and the Northwestern campus with Grand Bend’s Andy Kiener
Earlier this week, Joe Zekas met up with Andy Kiener from Grand Bend at Green Bay and headed to Evanston's lakefront, located just a short distanc [...]
Downtown’s rental inventory: a year in review
Fifty-two weeks ago, we started tracking the number of homes listed for rent in 14 different downtown-area ZIP codes. (Every Friday, using the "re [...]
$5 million – now that’s a price reduction
A Winnetka manse that I wrote about just yesterday, when it was on the market for $28 million, was reduced today to $23 million. It originally cam [...]
Have a new home for the holidays at Reston Ponds in Sycamore
Celebrate the holidays in the comfort of a new St Charles-model home at Reston Ponds in Sycamore.
A 3,015 square-foot home at 401 Mary Ann Circ [...]
Apocalypse, wow? The “unique sculptor owner features” of a Roscoe Village home
Because nothing says "home" like Colonel Kurtz's mossy mug mounted over your bed. The horror! The horror!
The single-family home at 3528 N Dame [...]
Trulia junk stats
By now you’ve probably seen a number of the breathless headlines for stories “reporting” on Trulia’s November price reduction report, which ranks Chic [...]
Jewish businesses head to Skokie after Jews leave
Skokie Patch is suggesting that Skokie is becoming “the new hub of the Jewish business community,” swiping that designation from Chicago’s Rogers [...]
How Chicago landlords can eliminate the Craigslist bedbug infestation
Almost everyone who has searched for an apartment in Chicago recently knows that bedbugs – also known as apartment rental services and finders – h [...]
Ed Smith isn’t coming back
...and the West Side might not, either. This week, the city's longest-serving black alderman submitted his resignation, effective at the end of No [...]
Quote of the day: Up in smoke
"The good majority are smaller landlords who have had their apartment buildings for 20 or 30 years, and they're thinking they're going to rehab them i [...]