Here a bubble, there not a bubble
Zillow recently released its Quarterly Home Value Reports for the first quarter of 2007.
Values in the Chicago area (Excel file) showed a wide range [...]
California style on Wilmette Ave, Wilmette
Join YoChicago and Coldwell Banker's Lynn Flannery for a walk through the first floor of this airy $1.975M home.
Kitchens in this price range home [...]
The back yard at 2117 Wilmette Ave
A video of a back yard? You've got to be kidding!
After having seen a lot of North Shore new construction, this home had a back yard unusual enoug [...]
From Wicker Park to North Kenwood
Jerry Houlihan and his fiancée recently moved from Wicker Park to North Kenwood's Drexel Parc Lofts.
In the first part of a 3-part video, above, H [...]
Deal of the day: Rogers Park condo for under $175,000
Even with the recent stall in pricing, lots of would-be homebuyers complain about how tough it is to get a foot in the housing door, what with neigh [...]
Comment of the day: who's scaring buyers?
"Was it 'the media' that scared buyers away? Or was it reality?"
--Ecker, commenting on our video interview with Coldwell Banker's Lyn Flannery. [...]
Quote of the day: a little less demolition, a little more Chicago
"Too many great buildings have been lost already. Once you lose a critical mass of historical buildings, the street becomes less like a Chicago street [...]
Gentrification debate – blogs follow the Starbucks?
Gentrification has been on our minds lately, so a recent survey by aggregator Outside.in about the nation's "bloggiest neighborhoods" piqued our cur [...]
Registration starts today for Great Chicago Places and Spaces 2007
Registration starts at noon today for Great Chicago Places and Spaces 2007 - which looks like a must for Chicago architecture lovers. The event kicks [...]
Ripped from the headlines: Ald. Preckwinkle calls for redesign of Olympic Village
Ald. Preckwinkle: redesign Olympic Village Sun-Times
Daley affordable housing plan backed Trib
Equity Residential's 1st Q results dip Crain's
Fre [...]
Church of the day: Our Lady of Lourdes
Our Lady of Lourdes, 4640 N Ashland Ave, seen across Chase Park in east Ravenswood [...]
Name the nabe of the knight and Lady Liberty
These copper creations have long occupied a storefront on a busy North Side street. The first person to name the neighborhood gets a free Yo T-shirt. [...]
We like to watch: true value in Humboldt Park
Given that new-construction single-family homes can fetch upwards of $700,000 in the Humboldt Park area, resales like this rehabbed frame house at 183 [...]
Camera-shy in Englewood
The boy on the left, age 9 or 10, explained why he didn't want me to take his picture: "police might be looking for me some day." [...]
A North Shore market update
It's been a while since I paid any attention to new construction on the North Shore, so I stopped in Wilmette today to tour two new homes with Coldw [...]
Rebuilding Together – a grandson pitches in
Chicago's Englewood neighborhood is a world of need. Rebuilding Together helps low-income elderly, disabled and families stay "warm, safe and dry" in [...]
A Chicago North Shore market update
It's been a while since I paid any attention to new construction on the North Shore, so I stopped in today to tour two new homes with Coldwell Banker [...]
Comment of the day: don't write off Englewood
"If Englewood is this way when you visit I get the feeling there won't be action like this in 10 or 20 years. It could be the next hot spot. And it ha [...]
Deal of the day: $10,000 off Library Tower, Trio condos
We're used to seeing parking spot giveaways, creative financing packages and free upgrades these days as the market "adjusts," but today we came acr [...]
Chicago rent barometer: hot and cold summer studios
Summer isn't too far away, and that means students leaving the city, interns moving in and others like them swarming to either sublet their places or [...]