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Antoine Walker, Michael Jordan homes still unsold

Antoine Walker home video

The 12,000 square foot home that former NBA player Antoine Walker built for his mother was just featured on Inside Edition. The Tinley Park home makes only brief appearances in the above video, but you can see much more of it in YoChicago’s video walk-through, below. The 9-bedroom, 9-bath home was listed at $1,790,000 when ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 7, 2012

Staging a home to sell in South Holland

Brook Furniture Rental video

Selling a vacant, unfurnished home is challenging in today’s competitive marketplace, but many sellers attempt to do just that. The owners of 2000 Parkview Dr in South Holland, for example, purchased a home in Naples, FL and shipped much of their furniture there, leaving bare and nearly bare rooms in their large 4 bedroom, 4 ...

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Posted by sponsored post on September 4, 2012

Fountain Hills in Orland Park a golfer’s paradise

Orland Park - Fountain Hills condos

Golfers – wanna get away? You won’t have to when you’re in one of the brand new 2-bed, 2-bath condos at Fountain Hills in Orland Park.  It’ll take you quite a while to play just the courses within a few miles of your new condo. The Residences at Fountain Hills is near the southwest side ...

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Posted by sponsored post on August 27, 2012

New Orland Park condos at Fountain Hills

Fountain Hills condos, Orland Park IL

Orland Park is one of Chicagoland’s most vibrant suburbs, with golf courses, forest preserves, great schools, and all sorts of recreational opportunities.  Fountain Hills is an already established neighborhood in southwest Orland Park, near I-80, I-355, Route 45 and the Metra commuter rail station. The Residences at Fountain Hills is building out impressive five-story condominium ...

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Posted by sponsored post on July 26, 2012

New lower prices at Ambry Estates in Lynwood

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Chicago home builder J. Lawrence Homes has reduced the price of eight models at Ambry Estates in Lynwood by $15,000 each.  Clearly, an already attractive new home opportunity just got even better. Ambry Estates has four move-in-ready homes complete and ready to occupy before the school year starts.  These homes each have 4 bedrooms, 2.5 ...

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Posted by sponsored post on July 21, 2012

Ambry Estates: Up to $25K in free options during June

Ambry Estates, J. Lawrence Homes

Ambry Estates in Lynwood, an exclusive enclave of single-family homes built by Chicago home builder J. Lawrence Homes is ready to move you in with up to $25,000 in free options through the end of June. Lynwood, IL is one of the best kept secrets south of Chicago’s city limits. This small suburb of less ...

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Posted by sponsored post on May 31, 2012

Tour an Ambry Estates move-in-ready home

Ambry Estates, Lynwood, IL

The homes at Ambry Estates are just minutes from I-394 in Lynwood and nestled within an established neighborhood set against the backdrop of mature forest preserve land. Jan Scott of J. Lawrence Homes presents this tour of a newly built home at Ambry Estates in Lynwood, IL. This 2-story home has an open floor plan ...

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Posted by sponsored post on May 24, 2012

Ambry Estates in Lynwood offers $0 closing costs

Ambry Estates, Lynwood, IL

Chicago home builder J. Lawrence Homes, one of the area’s largest local and private builders is now offering $0 closing costs on their Ambry Estates community of new homes in Lynwood.  According to John Wozniak, president of J Lawrence Homes, the homes are already priced to move so there is a wonderful opportunity for buyers ...

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Posted by sponsored post on April 12, 2012

Tour a luxury model home in Plainfield

Plainfield custom home video

You’ll often get a more informed perspective on how a home lives when you see it through the eyes of the builder. The 4,300 square foot home at 26104 Stewart Ridge in Plainfield was built by Christyn as a showplace model for the Northern Illinois Homebuilders’ Cavalcade of Homes. A great deal of thought and ...

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Posted by sponsored post on April 10, 2012

Antoine Walker’s home far south of Michael Jordan’s

Antoine Walker home video

If Michael Jordan’s $29 million Highland Park home is too far north for you, in geography or price range, you might want to check out the home that former NBA player Antoine Walker built for his mother in Tinley Park. It’s 54 miles and more than $27 million south of Jordan’s. The 9-bedroom, 9-bath home ...

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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 10, 2012

Model home ready for quick sale at Silver Leaf in Joliet

Model home for sale, Silver Leaf, Joliet IL, J. Lawrence Homes

You don’t often find newly-constructed 4-bedroom, 2½-bath, 2,600+ square-foot homes for less than $250,000. Much less one loaded with features and ready to occupy. But here at Silver Leaf in Joliet you find just that. This J. Lawrence Home builder model is now for sale at $245,000. The home had previously been priced at $340K. ...

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Posted by sponsored post on September 29, 2011

New construction homes competitive in the southwest suburbs

River's Edge Landing, Minooka IL

With plenty of slow-moving resale listings and foreclosed homes on the market in most communities, it may be easy to lose sight of the opportunity to build your own new construction home, at a competitive price. When the home price is at a similar level, the benefits become even clearer – you can choose your ...

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Posted by sponsored post on August 16, 2011

Five benefits of building a home with J. Lawrence and Smykal Homes

Smykal Homes model at River's Edge

With plenty of resales and foreclosed homes still on the market, it can be easy to forget that building a new-construction home in Chicago from the ground up is still an option. Thanks to builder incentives and home warrantees (things lacking in a foreclosed home), new-construction homes can cost a buyer less than a resale ...

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Posted by sponsored post on April 28, 2011

Touring three new homes in Chicago’s southwest suburbs

Video: Touring three new construction homes in Chicago's southwest suburbs

This year Michael Hampton has taken our own Chuck Gekas on tours through suburban communities developed by J. Lawrence Homes and Smykal Homes. Three of those communities are located in the southwest suburbs: the Carriage Homes at Ravine Woods in Channahon, Ashford Place in Plainfield, and River’s Edge Landing in Minooka. We’ve already shared footage ...

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Posted by sponsored post on April 11, 2011

Sweet guest suites take the stress out of hosting

Ambry Estates, Lynwood

If you’d like to host overnight guests without pulling out a sleeper sofa, J. Lawrence Homes has a solution. J. Lawrence gives buyers the option to add guest bedrooms or suites in five floor plans at three communities: Ambry Estates in Lynwood, Tanner Trails in North Aurora, and Midlane Country Club in Wadsworth. At each ...

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Posted by sponsored post on April 1, 2011

Touring a new home at Ashford Place in Plainfield

Video: Touring a new home at Ashford Place in Plainfield

Last week Mike Hampton took Chuck Gekas through a new-construction single-family home at Smykal Homes‘ Ashford Place community in southwest suburban Plainfield. The home, priced at $249,900, offers a convenient, light-filled entertaining space consisting of a living room with 9-foot ceiling heights next to a kitchen with 42-inch maple cabinets and granite countertops, with an ...

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Posted by sponsored post on March 23, 2011

Up to 40% off original prices at Front Street Lofts in Lemont

Front Street Lofts, Lemont

Marquette Companies has rolled out a “spring savings program” at its Front Street Lofts development in downtown Lemont, offering homes for as much as 40% below the community’s original pricing. Marquette’s one- and two-story lofts now range from the $130s to $380s. The homes have 863 to 2,232 square feet, one to three bedrooms, and ...

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Posted by Joseph Askins on March 22, 2011

Touring the last Carriage Home at Ravine Woods in Channahon

Video: Touring the last Carriage Home at Ravine Woods in Channahon

Mike Hampton, the sales manager for J. Lawrence Homes‘ and Smykal Homes‘ communities, recently gave Chuck Gekas a tour of the very last new-construction home available at the Carriage Homes at Ravine Woods in southwest suburban Channahon. The three-bedroom / two-bath home has more than 1,700 square feet and features 10-foot ceiling heights in the ...

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Posted by sponsored post on March 9, 2011

Touring a new-construction home in Minooka

Video: Touring a new-construction home in Minooka

Last week Chuck Gekas met up with Michael Hampton, the director of sales for many of the J. Lawrence and Smykal Homes developments found throughout the suburbs, to tour the biggest home currently available at River’s Edge Landing in Minooka: a four-bedroom / 2.5-bath home with more than 2,500 square feet, priced at $279,900. Situated ...

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Posted by sponsored post on March 7, 2011

Touring a furnished new-construction home at Ambry Estates in Lynwood

Video: Touring a furnished new-construction home at Ambry Estates in Lynwood

Follow Bridget McClendon of J. Lawrence Homes and our own Chuck Gekas through a furnished model home at J. Lawrence’s new Ambry Estates community in Lynwood. The Rochester-style home shown here is a 2,700 square-foot single-family home with four bedrooms plus den, and a three-car garage. (See a floor plan in PDF format.) It features ...

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Posted by Joseph Askins on January 26, 2011