Tag: Highland Park
YoChicago’s video walk through the Ferris Bueller house
Last August I spent nearly two hours shooting photos and video at what, in deference to the listing agent's wishes, we referred to in the above vi [...]
Lease a vibrant villa in Highland Park
It isn't often that you'll see a 2-bedroom, 1-bath home described as a "hand-built country villa." But then, how would you respond if challenged t [...]
Tour a Highland Park landmark, the Ben Rose house and pavilion
The Ben Rose house and pavilion has been said to be the most important modernist home in Chicagoland.
It was designed by A. James Speyer, a st [...]
Antoine Walker, Michael Jordan homes still unsold
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 m [...]
Home sales lag in Michael Jordan’s subdivision
All the media hubbub attending Michael Jordan's offering his Highland Park home for sale for $29 million doesn't seem to have boosted property val [...]
Highland Park luxury at $600K below 2006 asking price
The 7,500 square foot 5-bedroom home with 5 full and 2 half baths on an acre at 3434 Old Mill Rd in Highland Park recently came on the market at a [...]
Highland Park home for sale for $29 million
Crain's is reporting that Michael Jordan's Highland Park home has been listed for sale with an asking price of $29 million. The list price include [...]
CPAH needs 25 Robin Hoods in Sherwood Forest
You can play a part in doing something about Chicago's growing shortage of affordable housing, and play Robin Hood to a family earning less than 8 [...]
Have Highland Park buyers become Dart-bored?
Four months ago we noted that two very different homes by mid-century modernist architect Edward Dart were for sale in Highland Park. Both are sti [...]
Want a 37-acre North Shore lakefront home?
Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily is reporting that a joint venture of the U.S. Navy and Forest City Enterprises is selling 37 acres with 1,100 fe [...]
Go high or low on Edward Dart homes in Highland Park
If you're interested in owning a Highland Park home designed by noted modernist Edward Dart you can pay $229,000 or $2,575,000.
The low end of ho [...]
Kenilworth is the capital of stately on the North Shore
If you're a hard-core Joycean, as I once was, the word "stately" immediately calls to mind the opening of Ulysses and the rites of "stately, plump [...]
North Shore MLS-listed rentals at another new low
The number of MLS-listed rental homes and condos in Chicago's North Shore communities fell to yet another new low this week, with only 230 units a [...]
A huge estate sale at Scottie Pippen’s former home
Chicago Bulls Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen sold the 13,000 square foot home at 2320 Shady Lane in Highland Park in 1996, along with a great deal o [...]
Rent a pied-a-shore in Highland Park
Thinking about a summer weekend getaway place near the lake?
There’s a rarely-available rental in a HIghland Park coach house across the stree [...]
Adler home for sale in Highland Park
Six months ago Ned Skae alerted me to the possibility that a record number of homes designed by architect David Adler were on the market in Lake F [...]
What happened to that looming North Shore foreclosure wave?
Late last year real estate agents were sounding alarms about a pending tsunami of foreclosures on the North Shore. It doesn't appear to be happening [...]
A Tony Grunsfeld home in Highland Park: not unfriendly, just private
Ernest Alton "Tony" Grunsfeld III has designed dozens of homes along the bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan. Most are in the distinctively modern idio [...]
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