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Melanie Giglio
Every Noah Properties home is similar to all the other ones — and distinctively different from all the others. What they have in common can be summarized in one word: flair. The 6-bedroom home at 1518 W George in Lake View is on a 30-foot wide lot, enabling it to have graciously-sized rooms and four ...
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Posted by sponsored post on May 3, 2013
Yesterday I visited two luxury Lake View single-family homes that were nearing completion, and shot video at both. Check back in a few days for the sponsored tours. Both homes feature, as you’d expect, lavish kitchens with extensive cabinets, large islands, high-end appliances, breakfast bars and adjacent family rooms that open to spacious 3-tiered decks. ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 30, 2013
“It’s truly one of the most amazing entertaining spaces you could ever have,” said Melanie Giglio as she showed me around a full-floor 4,100 square foot loft at 415 W Superior St in River North a year ago. At the time the home was priced at $1,749,000. It just came back on the market at ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 11, 2013
If you’re familiar with the leafy stretches of Lincoln Square near Winnemac Park you’re aware of how unusual it is to see new construction in the neighborhood. Just steps from the park is a newly-built 5-bedroom, 3 ½ bath home on a 30-foot wide lot at 2251 W Winnemac Ave. The exterior of the home ...
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Posted by sponsored post on December 11, 2012
Noah Properties is one of Chicago’s more accomplished builders, and the company has topped all of its previous efforts with a showplace home at 1250 W Schubert. It’s newly listed and priced at $2,199,900. The home is on a 29-foot wide lot in a location that’s rapidly becoming a mansion corridor of over-the-top luxury homes. ...
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Posted by sponsored post on December 6, 2012
Noah Properties has been one of Chicago’s most active builders in the past several years, completing dozens of condo developments and single-family homes in a variety of neighborhoods. Yesterday I visited one of Noah’s latest offerings, a newly-listed 6-bedroom home with 3 full and 2 half baths and a 3-car garage, priced at $2,199,900. It’s ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 4, 2012
“It’s truly one of the most amazing entertaining spaces you could ever have,” said Melanie Giglio as she showed me around a full-floor 4,100 square foot loft at 415 W Superior St in River North back in March. At the time the home was priced at $1,749,000. It’s recently been listed at $1,595,000. You enter ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on September 28, 2012
This 30th floor 2-bedroom plus den, 2 ½ bath condo has superlative views from its south-facing floor-to-ceiling windows and generously-sized balcony. The home has a split-bedroom layout with large rooms, high-end kitchen cabinets and appliances, hardwood floors in the living and dining area and ample closet and storage space. It will be listed for sale ...
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Posted by sponsored post on July 9, 2012
Some of Chicago’s high-rises have developed a reputation as “view buildings” due to the spectacular skyline vistas from some of their units. Fairbanks at Cityfront Plaza, 240 E Illinois, isn’t usually found on the roster of view buildings, but the south-facing higher-floor units do serve up some great views. I took the above shot just ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on July 6, 2012
You don’t have to go very far west in Chicago’s developing Avondale neighborhood to find new construction condos priced at nearly half what similar units sell for in Lincoln Park. The 4-flat that’s nearing completion at 3621 W Belmont Ave has 3-bedroom, 2-bath units approximately 1,500 feet in size that are priced in the mid-$200s. ...
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Posted by sponsored post on March 5, 2012
It doesn’t happen often, but on occasion Chicago Magazine’s Dennis Rodkin does a video tour of home that I’ve already shot video at. Rodkin’s tour of a newly-built home at 1529 W Wolfram was just posted online. It’s embedded above, and you can read more about the home at his Deal Estate column. The home ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 12, 2012
New construction in the mid-$700s in Chicago’s Old Irving neighborhood has been a scarce item, and scarcer still in a walk-to-transit location. The newly-built 5-bedroom, 3 ½ bath home at 4024 N Harding Ave is two short blocks from the Blue Line and Metra stops on Irving Park Rd, and two blocks from the Kennedy ...
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Posted by sponsored post on September 6, 2011
I’ve toured a dozen newly-built homes from the builder of this one, at 1529 W Wolfram St. Each home has been similar to the others, but highly individualized nonetheless, and all of them have sold quickly. None of the homes I’ve previously visited comes close to matching the richness of the detailing in this 5,000 ...
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Posted by sponsored post on August 29, 2011
The final video from Joe’s visit to 707 W Gordon Terrace in Buena Park is a showcase of the home’s recreational spaces, from an expansive rooftop deck with an indoor kitchen, a gas line, and multimedia wiring, to a back yard with a built-in gas fireplace. The ground level family room doubles as a private ...
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Posted by sponsored post on January 29, 2010
From the circular mosaic tile work in the showers to the unique lighting fixtures mounted throughout the hallways, the finishes at 707 W Gordon Terrace seemed to keep capturing Joe Zekas’ attention. In the second segment from his video tour with Sergio & Banks agents Tina Culver and Melanie Giglio, Joe walks through some of ...
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Posted by sponsored post on January 27, 2010
Joe Zekas doesn’t throw praise around willy-nilly, so when I hear him refer to the new construction single-family home at 707 W Gordon Terrace as “a wow,” I take it to mean he really is impressed. As he notes in the opening minute of this video, it’s hard to find new construction single-families close to ...
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Posted by sponsored post on January 25, 2010
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