If you search for Lincoln Park real estate online (as we did recently) chances are you’ll come across LincolnParkLiving.com, a site run by Doug Fox, a broker associate with Rubloff Residential Properties. Fox has been selling real estate in the neighborhood for the last dozen years, and he’s lived there for about 20 years. In that time he says Lincoln Park has lost just a smidgin of its cache. “There’s less neighborhood loyalty than there used to be,” he says. “Other neighborhoods have caught up in terms of amenities.”
Still, there’s no question that Lincoln Park has some of the most desirable addresses in the city. Demand for condos is generally high, he says. The least expensive two-bedroom condo on the market is $269,900, and the most expensive is a cool $1.386 million. That’s a pretty radical outlier, though – it’s the only one of the 281 two-bedroom condos on the market to top $1 million. There’s one two-bedroom in the $900s, one in the $800s and about half-a-dozen in the $700s, he says.
Prices on single-family homes are pretty staggering (at least by our garret-living, eating-beans-from-a-can standards). Fox reports that the least expensive house on the market now is a $425,000 cottage on a 24-by-56-foot lot that backs up to the el. Its living room is eight by 12 feet. “This is what you find on the low end,” he says.
By our reckoning here at the Yo, most houses in Lincoln Park sell for more than $1 million. Fox says the most expensive one on the market now is a twelve-room house with three bedrooms and 3.5 baths for $6.575 millon, on Lakeview Avenue across from Diversey Harbor. Next in line: a 13-room house with six bedroom and 6.5 baths for $5.995 million.