Tag: Rentals
EnV apartments offers steep rent discounts
Discount is a dirty word in the world of new rental high-rises, where price-cutting takes the form of "free rent" specials limited to new renters. [...]
Apartment Savvy targets the dumbest renters on the planet
Apartment Savvy, one of the rental services on our do-not-call list, has been reviewed 85 times at the Google Places page for its 2835 N Clark St [...]
New website goes live for 1225 Old Town
Floor plans, prices and other details for 1225 Old Town, a new rental high-rise at 1225 N Wells St in Old Town, became available early yesterday e [...]
Gold Coast apartment tower takes a step forward
Chicago Real Estate Daily is reporting that the Fifield Cos. has won the bidding to develop a new retail / apartment tower on the Jewel site at Cl [...]
Pilsen apartments for $7,000 a month
Put 10 students from local universities in a 5-bedroom, 2-bath apartment at $700 a month each and you have a $7,000 a month rental at La Casa in P [...]
Historic Del Prado offers renovated Hyde Park apartments
The Del Prado, built in 1918, is one of a group of distinctive buildings that mark the gateway from Lake Shore Drive into Hyde Park in Chicago. Th [...]
Number of MLS-listed downtown rentals up sharply
After reaching a new low last week, the number of MLS-listed rentals jumped 23% week-over-week as of today.
Last week at this time there were 6 [...]
My Place Apartments gussies up Google Reviews
When we last checked in on Crazy Steve and My Place Apartments they were soliciting deadbeats, felons and strippers as clients. As you can see fro [...]
Talking about the much-maligned four-plus-one
The four-plus-one or 4+1 is the Chicago building type that everyone loves to hate – everyone, that is, except for the many renters who choose to m [...]
Quote of the day – more rentals in houses than apartment buildings
Most people probably read only the headline at the various sources, including a blog at The Wall Street Journal, that reported on a recent CoreLog [...]
The grass is greener at 1000 North LaSalle’s dog park
Planned Property Management just made the dog park at 1000 N LaSalle more pet- and pet-owner friendly with the addition of a grassy area, new benc [...]
The Del Prado’s terra cotta Native Americans
The exterior of the Del Prado Apartments in Hyde Park is distinguished by the Native American motifs of its extensive terra cotta detailing.
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Gold Coast studio apartments with in-unit washer / dryers
If you're looking for a studio apartment in the Gold Coast with an in-unit washer / dryer, you can stop looking: there aren't any. Ditto for one-, [...]
Rental of the day – The Kensington on Armitage
Today's rental pick is in a building that I renovated and converted to condos back in 1979 – 1980, and is a unit that I lived in for several years [...]
MLS-listed downtown rentals at another new low
For the third time in the last four weeks the number of downtown Chicago homes and condos listed for rent in the MLS hit a new low.
When we be [...]
A time-lapse video of K2 from day one to now
K2 at K Station, a 34-story, 496-unit high-rise apartment building in the Fulton River District broke ground last October. Its progress from then [...]
Condo – a dirty word for apartment rental services
A while back we wrote about 2-bedroom, 2-bath units in a full-amenity condo high-rise renting for the same price ($1,950 a month) as a convertible [...]
K2 at K Station Apartments, a construction update
Alan Schachtman is a principal in the Fifield-Wood joint venture that's developing K2 at K Station, a 34-story, 496-unit high-rise apartment build [...]
Why PadMapper is worse than useless for Chicago renters
One of our recent commenters touted PadMapper as a way to search for apartments in Chicago, so I thought it might be useful to take a look at what tha [...]
Ready-to-rent furnished apartments at Randolph Tower
Brook Furniture Rental, in cooperation with Randolph Tower City Apartments, is offering a "ready to rent" program at the newly-renovated tower at [...]