Tag: Rentals
Rent vs own on Astor Street – $20K a month or $5.4M?
A full-floor 6,000 square foot home just became available at 1555 North Astor St in the Gold Coast. It's offered for sale at $5,400,000 and for re [...]
Fifield announces $104.5M sale of Echelon at K Station
The news release just came across our virtual desk:
CHICAGO – (February 2, 2012) Chicago-based Fifield Companies and its joint-venture partner, [...]
$1,950 rent conundrum – an Aqua convertible or a 2-bedroom, 2-bath across the street
Here's a good test of what you prioritize and value in your next apartment. Consider a convertible studio and a 2-bedroom, 2-bath in two different [...]
Five years ago today the Tribune reported plans for Kinzie Station
The headline read 6-tower project planned, and the story began:
A Chicago-based developer intends to build a $750 million residential project n [...]
Are you the reason your rent is too damn high?
Jimmy McMillan, the 2010 gubernatorial candidate of New York's Rent Is Too Damn High Party, achieved some notoriety thanks to the many YouTube rem [...]
Jonathan Jackson keeps tabs on building movements
Jonathan Jackson is a Technical Engineer with Plumbers Local 130 and a licensed land surveyor.
When I stopped to chat with him at K2 at K Stati [...]
Lincoln Park rental deals, Americana Towers and Eugenie Terrace
Eugenie Terrace, 1730 N Clark St, is offering $1,000 discounts on the first month's rent on select studio and one-bedroom apartments. To qualify, [...]
Edgewater’s Winthrop Kenmore corridor – Arson Alley and Appalachians and Indians tumbling like flotsam
The so-called Winthrop Kenmore corridor has long been a troubled area, home to a largely transient population. According to Compass Rose:
In th [...]
Lincoln Park homes renting well below asking price
This is the second in a series of videos from my recent drive around Lincoln Park with David Nadler.
In the first video we looked at lakefront [...]
Another River North apartment tower up for sale
The market for downtown Chicago apartment towers has been active lately, and River North has been the strongest submarket.
EnV, 161 W Kinzie, [...]
Ridding oneself entirely of the coal and servant problems
The documents prepared to nominate properties or districts for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places are often wonderfully enterta [...]
Failed condo gone rental in Jefferson Park
It was August of 2008 when we last looked in on Kennedy Estates, 4810 N Lavergne in Jefferson Park.
Six of the 22 2-bedroom, 2-bath units had [...]
The flop on LaSalle now LaSalle Park Apartments
Our first mention of The Flats on LaSalle was in a round-up story on condo bargains nearly six years ago, and our most recent, in August of 2010, [...]
A panoramic view of K2 at K Station
Our unusually mild weather is contributing to rapid progress on the construction of K2, K2 at K Station, a 496-unit, 34-story rental high-rise in [...]
More apartments proposed for Near West Side
Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily
is reporting that Bond Cos., a local developer, is planning a mixed-use development on the site of a former Ch [...]
Lincoln Park condos renting at bargain prices
David Nadler makes a strong case for the proposition that condo rentals are often bargain-priced in the current market, especially at this time of [...]
Going virile – Shit girls say when looking at apartments
Dan McDonough, the marketing director for Planned Property Management, has been searching for that video that goes viral.
He’s tried adopting [...]
Chicago rental services closing offices, rebranding, testing new business models
As Chicago's rental market strengthens and vacancies decrease, a number of landlords have been cutting back on their use of apartment rental servi [...]
Is a phony Yelp review a felony?
Last Saturday we called attention to a pattern of suspicious reviews of Reside Living buildings at Yelp.
The first positive review of Reside a [...]
Park Millennium – from buyers lined up outside the building to bargain rentals
Six years ago Yo was writing this about the Park Millennium, a 52-story condo conversion at 222 N Columbus Dr on the New East Side:
Carrie McCo [...]