Tag: Far North
Renaissance Lofts slapped with foreclosure suit
Last month we brought you this video interview with David Derk, who is suing the Kopley Group for not honoring a buyback guarantee at Renaissance [...]
Stuff that sells: Landmark Abbott House sells for $1.6M
Curbed's Mark Boyer reports on the sale of the landmark Dr. Wallace C. Abbott House, a 120-year-old Queen Anne at 4605 N Hermitage Ave in Uptown. [...]
From $86K to $289K in 16 months in Rogers Park
Rogers Park isn't a big market for single-family homes. In the past 12 months, 27 single-families inside the community area have sold, at prices rangi [...]
The two-two tango: Five new listings around town
The average Chicago condo has two bedrooms and two baths, but these homes come in all shapes, sizes, locations, and prices. Here are five two-twos, al [...]
Edgewater, Rogers Park see condo prices fall in 4th quarter
2010 was not kind to condominiums on Chicago's Far North Side: Our two northernmost neighborhoods, Rogers Park and Edgewater, both saw condo price [...]
Renaissance Lofts buyers fight back
Thanks to Curbed for highlighting a new article by Dennis Rodkin about Renaissance Lofts in Rogers Park, where buyers have filed suit against the Kopl [...]
Terror towers: Selling short at 6030 North Sheridan
We last looked at 6030 North Sheridan in June 2006, when Rick Levin & Associates was preparing a developer closeout auction at the 292-unit buildi [...]
Rainbo Village’s unlucky charms
Sellers at Rainbo Village aren't looking for pots of gold. The only prize at the end of their Rainbo experience will be the relief of moving on.
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More than half of Edgewater’s condos closing below $100K
Sixteen of the 26 condo closings recorded in Edgewater since the turn of the new year have been below $100,000. These five-figure homes have ranged fr [...]
Do winter pains equal buyer gains in Uptown?
The forecast for unit #1 at 4913 N Ashland Ave in Uptown was bleak, even before we entered the deep freeze of winter.
The 3,500 square-foot, five-b [...]
Sex offenders opt for Uptown, Edgewater, Rogers Park
There are lots of sites where you can check whether there are any registered sex offenders in your neighborhood. The State Sex Offender Registry has t [...]
Rojas reviews ‘a ridiculous foreclosure deal’ in Lincoln Square
Realtor Eric Rojas and a client recently toured a bank-owned two-bedroom / one-bath condo in Lincoln Square whose price had just dropped to $89,00 [...]
Multi-unit buildings are ‘back in the game’
Multi-units are back in the game and many long time owners have the ability to sell for market or below prices. Although we like the affordability of [...]
New Chinatown becoming more Chinese
The "New Chinatown" appellation never sat right with me -- yes, the area around Argyle Street in Uptown is a distinctly Asian corridor, but many [...]
Towers of terror: Sellers take their lumps at Granville Beach in Edgewater
This morning Joe Zekas, writing at Homeward Bound - West Suburbs, likened price cuts at Oak Brook's Tower Condominiums to the "uncontrollable plum [...]
A Rogers Park condo bust
Edgewater condos took the biggest hit during the real estate crash of the early 80s. The average-priced unit sold in the mid-$70s in 1979, and in [...]
Castlewood Terrace home now available at ’02 sale price
When I toured this three-bedroom / 3.5-bath home at 920 W Castlewood Terrace in Margate Park last March, it was priced at just under $1.6 million. [...]
Rogers Park four-plus-ones: the epitome of ‘urban chic’
"4 + 1 apartments were hip in the '60s and '70s, and now they are hip again today."
- Lori Postma, Reside Living's director of marketing, in a [...]
Fountain View earns its LEED certification
Back in September I reviewed the US Green Building Council's list of LEED projects and found that most of the residential developments that touted [...]
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 [...]