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North Center is Community Area 5 of the city's official 77 neighborhoods.

North Center boundaries are Diversey Ave (2800 N) north to Montrose Ave (4400 N), Ravenswood Ave (1800 W) west to the Chicago River. Currently considered from Irving Park to Montrose

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A luxuriously appointed new West Lakeview home

1928 W Wolfram video

The newly-listed home at 1928 W Wolfram, in a part of North Center that’s often referred to as West Lakeview, is the latest offering from Noah Properties. The 5-bedroom, 3 ½ bath single-family has all of the features that are Noah Properties’ signature, including coffered ceilings, an over-the-top kitchen, a large, lavish master bath, floor-to-ceiling ...

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Posted by sponsored post on April 24, 2012
ChicagoNorth Side

Single-family home sales in North Center

2145 W Barry Chicago

Eric Rojas, one of our sponsors, just posted a market snapshot of single-family home sales during the first quarter of the year in the North Center neighborhood. According to Eric, “North Center single family homes were one of the hottest markets of 2011.” First-quarter sales volume and prices fell below last year’s results according to ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 11, 2012
ChicagoNorth Side

A remarkable new 5-bedroom a half-block from Hamlin Park

2145 W Barry Chicago

A few years from now newcomers to this part of the North Center neighborhood, just south of Roscoe Village, may find themselves wondering about the age of the newly-built home at 2145 W Barry. It’s stylistically very much in sync with the far older homes that surround it, but differs from them just enough to ...

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Posted by sponsored post on March 14, 2012
DealsChicagoNorth Side

A block from Roscoe Village, killer-priced new 3 and 4-bedrooms

2431 W Belmont Chicago video

Noah Properties may well be the hottest-selling developer on Chicago’s North Side. Its detailed-to-the-max single-family homes and condos have been selling almost as quickly as they’re completed. At 2431 W Belmont Ave, a block from the popular Roscoe Village neighborhood, Noah is building 3 6-flat condos with 3- and 4-bedroom, 2-bath units that include garage ...

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Posted by sponsored post on February 18, 2012
ChicagoNorth Side

A pre-construction look at a luxury North Center single-family

1928 W Wolfram Chicago

Noah Properties may be the hottest homebuilder in the city of Chicago these days. Homes by Noah have been selling almost as quickly as they hit the market. Until recently, they were only listed for sale when they were completed and move-in ready. The demand for Noah Properties’ homes has led Sergio & Banks’ Melissa ...

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Posted by sponsored post on February 2, 2012

Reselling a new condo a year later in Roscoe Village

2257 Belmont Video

In May of 2010 I shot the above sponsored video with Sergio & Banks’ Sam Banks at 2257 W Belmont Ave in Roscoe Village. The building had two duplex and six single-floor units, and we toured a model simplex. The project was built by Ultimate Homes, the predecessor to Noah Properties, and sold quickly. Unit ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 13, 2012
ChicagoNorth Side

A rare home on the Chicago River

Bing aerial

Homes that have the Chicago River for a back yard aren’t all that unusual. But, when you begin looking for newer construction homes the group narrows considerably. If Craftsman style is one of your wish-list items, your options are limited to a very few homes. A 2003-vintage Craftsman-style home at 4148 N Rockwell St just ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 12, 2012
ChicagoDowntown / Loop

YoChicago’s most popular videos for the last 30 days

Thumbnail image for YoChicago’s most popular videos for the last 30 days

YoChicago’s videos at YouTube were watched more than 55,000 times during the past 30 days. Our video at the Home Alone house, featured above, received the most views during that period. The second most popular video was an introduction to the Gold Coast by Sergio & Banks’ Tina Culver. Reflecting the season, third place honors ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 11, 2011
ChicagoNorth Side

Specialists to Lathrop residents – no Mau-mauing the flak catchers

Lathrop Homes Chicago

I have to admit that I couldn’t bear to watch the whole thing, although I did manage to skip about through several minutes of this relentlessly “on message” buzzword binge about the redevelopment of the Lathrop Homes. Here’s the text that introduces the video: The Lathrop Community in Chicago is on the brink of experiencing ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 7, 2011
ChicagoNorth Side

A contemporary single-family on a wide lot in the Bell School District

2522 W Patterson Chicago

The 2500 block of Patterson is a quiet cul-de-sac that’s been built out with newer million-dollar homes in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood. It presents a beautifully landscaped streetscape that’s teeming with young children in the early evening. The location is in the highly sought-after Bell School District, which accounts for the unusually large number of ...

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Posted by sponsored post on November 20, 2011
ChicagoNorth Side

Strong third quarter single-family sales on Chicago’s north side

Lakeview single-family sales chart

The three months ending September 30 were a boon to single family home sales in several key north side neighborhoods, including Edgewater (up 91% over last quarter / 102% over a year ago), Lincoln Square (up 84% / 93%); North Center (up 119% / 28%), Lakeview (up 68% / 38%), and Uptown (up 79% / ...

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Posted by Jeff Baird on October 28, 2011
ChicagoNorth Side

A helicopter view of the Lathrop Homes

Aerial view of Lathrop Homes

Last week we alerted you that plans were moving forward for the redevelopment of the 920-unit Lathrop Homes, a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) project that has been largely vacant for several years. We included several pictures that showcase the attractiveness of its low-density riverfront site. The Lathrop homes site is bounded on the east by ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on September 26, 2011
ChicagoNorth Side

Lathrop Homes redevelopment moves forward

Lathrop Homes Chicago

The 920-unit Lathrop Homes, a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) project, has been largely vacant for several years. On Tuesday, according to Chicago Real Estate Daily, the CHA voted to authorize Lathrop Community Partners, a consortium of developers, to move forward with planning for the project’s redevelopment, which may involve as many as 1,200 mixed-income housing ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on September 21, 2011
ChicagoNorth Side

What’s happening at the Lathrop Homes

Lathrop Homes Chicago

The clouds were just beginning to break apart earlier today when I stood on the bridge over the Chicago River at Diversey Pkwy. Viewed through a telephoto lens the Loop skyline appears to loom over the Lathrop Homes, more than 3 miles distant. The Chicago News Cooperative has an update on the status of the ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on August 23, 2011
ChicagoNorth Side

Cityscape condos back on market in Bell School attendance area

3935 N Western Chicago

We’re not seeing – and not likely to see for some time – large new condo projects, but infill development is continuing in this depressed market. A number of the projects that are being touted as “new” are revivals or completions of developments that have been around for some time. Today’s new listing report includes ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on August 2, 2011
ChicagoNorth Side

Open house pick – a price-reduced North Center single-family in the mid-$400s

1808 W Diversey video

The 2-bedroom, 3-bath single-family home at 1808 W Diversey in the Picardy Place gated complex is at the far southeast corner of Chicago’s North Center community, across the street from Lincoln Park and steps from Lake View. It’s around the corner from Chi Che Wang Park, which you’ll see in the above video. The late ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on July 23, 2011

Bell and Coonley – market updates by school district

North Center tour video

Over at his lively Chicago Real Estate Local blog, Prudential Rubloff’s Eric Rojas has been surveying home prices in sought-after “buzz” elementary school districts. Eric recently focused on North Center’s Coonley School district, which saw 51 single-family home sales in the past 12 months. He also looked at the long-popular Bell School neighborhood, where 20 ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 30, 2011
ChicagoNorth Side

A single-family home with a townhome price, where Lincoln Park and North Center meet

Video: A single-family home with a townhome price, where Lincoln Park and North Center meet

Yesterday afternoon I met up with Realtor Eric Rojas at Chi Che Wang Playlot Park, near the border of the Lincoln Park and North Center community areas, and together we made our way into the nearby gated Picardy Place community, where Eric has listed a three-bedroom / three-bath single-family home at $474,900. The light-filled home ...

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Posted by sponsored post on May 3, 2011
ChicagoNorth Side

$1,500 a month for a two-bedroom near Bell School

The Alexander Graham Bell School in St Ben’s is one of the city’s most desirable grade schools; among boundary-area schools, only Lincoln ranked higher in the Sun-Times’ latest list of the top 100 Chicago-area elementaries. The median price of a Bell district home of any kind with at least two bedrooms is close to $450,000; ...

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Posted by Joseph Askins on April 7, 2011
ChicagoNorth Side

After two weeks, a 10% trim for a new North Center mansion

2216 W Grace St, Chicago

$2,995,000 might have been a good starting point for this 8,000 square-foot, new-construction mansion at 2216 W Grace St in North Center, but two weeks were all its builder needed to know that a lower price was in order. Yesterday the home dropped 10%, to a new list price of $2,699,000. The home, built by ...

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Posted by Joseph Askins on February 25, 2011