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Once a ballroom, now a bedroom
The third and final part of Joe's tour through the Francis J. Dewes House touches on the private spaces of the home. The highlights include a mast [...]
Higher credit scores needed for FHA-backed loans
Wells Fargo and Bank of America have tightened their standards for FHA-backed loans, says Bloomberg. Both banks now require applicants to have FICO sc [...]
The other pieces of the Sunrise scam
Our angle on the indictment of three Sunrise Equities principals naturally focused on the Pure building at 24 S Morgan St in the West Loop, simply bec [...]
Getting de-stoned in Kenilworth
After our chat at a Northfield open house, design-build honcho Geno Benvenuti mentioned that he was seeing a trend away from granite countertops a [...]
What’s your beef?
Halloween's long gone, but the horror stories keep on coming. In the past day buyers have complained under our YouTube videos and in NewHomeNotebook p [...]
Grand jury: Pure was a Ponzi scheme
Anyone who has followed the story of Pure over the past two years knows the building is anything but. Today, a federal grand jury indicted the dev [...]
Englewood, where $315K snags a “well-maintained” six-flat
Ten years ago, more than 43 percent of Englewood's residents were living below the poverty level, according to the new quality-of-life tracking to [...]
The grand entertaining spaces of the Francis J. Dewes House
Follow Joe Zekas through the public spaces of the Francis J. Dewes House, one of the many highlights of which is a spectacular staircase with a st [...]
Stuff that sells: A look at the last seven days
According to Redfin, 204 single-family homes, townhomes, and condos have closed in Chicago in the past seven days. Here are a few fast facts about wha [...]
Stupid Realtor traits – location
We’ve called attention, on occasion, to what we call “stupid Realtor tricks.” The tricks tend to cause little, if any, harm because they're so transpa [...]
1000 Lake Shore, Drive vs. Plaza: Similar addresses, different price points in the Gold Coast
So I'm casually browsing Gold Coast over a morning coffee, and I start to detect an unnaturally wild spread in pricing at one location: 1000 Nort [...]
The history of Hollywood Park
I don’t know when neighborhood kids stopped going to Hollywood Park. Maybe the opening of the much larger and better appointed Peterson Park on th [...]
Condo associations rethinking rental restrictions
"It's a concern, but I have a sense that most buildings in this neighborhood have put their concerns about rentals on the back burner as long as asses [...]
Touring the Francis J. Dewes House, a landmark home in Lincoln Park
Last Friday Joe spent an hour marveling at the Francis J. Dewes House in Lincoln Park.
The home was one of the most lavishly detailed and decor [...]
Lease-up for downtown’s newest apartment buildings nears halfway point
Roughly half of the apartments in downtown's seven newest rental high-rises are now under lease, according to Appraisal Research Counselors' latest Do [...]
Promotions from the past: “The ideal home-in-town” at Sandburg Village
Last week we found a folder of promotional materials for Sandburg Village that surely date back to the late 1960s. Earlier today I scanned this list o [...]
Searching for stability in Chicago neighborhoods
Jeff Baird is a real estate valuation consultant based in Chicago. He founded Lakeshore Analytics to bring comprehensive, understandable housing d [...]
How Sandz Development will build Webster Square
After giving us an overview of the entire Webster Square proposal, Sandz Development principal David Goldman guided us around the old Lincoln Park [...]
Could Waterview move ahead as an office tower?
Developer Mark Goodman may try to complete the unfinished Waterview Tower at 111 W Wacker Dr, not as a 90-story condo / hotel high-rise, but as a [...]
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