Tag: Rentals
Quote of the day: Time to decide
"The first thing developers are doing is talking to their banks. It's really kind of decision time."
- Appraisal Research Counselors Vice President [...]
Rental options at Michigan Avenue Tower II
It's been well over a year since Russland Capital Group auctioned off more than 40 of the condos at Michigan Avenue Tower II, 1400 S Michigan Ave. Ear [...]
Leasing begins at River 595 apartments in Des Plaines
Leasing has begun at River 595, a new rental development located just steps from the shops, restaurants, and Metra depot in downtown Des Plaines.
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Quote of the day: New rental high-rise designs are good enough
This Lake Wobegon, all-the-buildings-are-above-average quality was predictable. These are apartment buildings, where budgets and architectural ambitio [...]
The risks and costs of condo rentals
Renting a condo is not like renting an apartment. You’re likely to encounter a range of unexpected fees, delays and restrictive policies, some of [...]
What $1,700 will rent in five downtown neighborhoods
Of the 1,055 homes currently listed for rent in 14 downtown ZIP codes, 147 have been available for a week or less (or at least were taken off the MLS [...]
FitzGerald has big plans for One South Halsted
A couple summers ago, Gazette Chicago reported that Skokie-based F&F Realty planned to build a 514-unit apartment building with "hotel-style amenities [...]
New low for downtown’s rental inventory (plus what $2,000 will rent)
Over a three-week period in August 2010, the number of downtown-area condos, townhomes, and single-family homes listed for rent on the MLS pl [...]
Lincoln Park vintage with a rooftop pool
I’ll always think of The Pierre, 2100 N Lincoln Park West, as the best Chicago building done by a bad developer.
When The Pierre was converted [...]
Evanston will or won’t clamp down on off-campus housing
Like most cities, Evanston has an ordinance that limits the number of unrelated individuals who can occupy a dwelling unit to three.
In a camp [...]
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 [...]
It’s apartment bedbug recruiting season
At YoChicago we refer to apartment rental services, also known as locators and finders, as bedbugs. It’s our shorthand way of informing you that the l [...]
Downtown rental inventory still shrinking
The number of downtown condos, townhomes, and single-family homes listed for rent on the MLS has dipped below 1,100. This time last year, there we [...]
Quote of the day: ‘An apartment-flipper market’
"It’s almost like we went from a condo-flipper market to an apartment-flipper market."
- Ron DeVries, vice-president at Appraisal Research Counsel [...]
Construction checkup: An Oak grows in Cabrini
Parkside of Old Town's next rental mid-rise is going up at the northeast corner of Larrabee and Oak streets, two blocks south of Cabrini Green's r [...]
Terrazio ramps up leasing effort
I've heard from two readers in the past day about a new "Now Leasing" banner hanging outside Terrazio, 1935 S Wabash Ave in the South Loop. One ev [...]
Crain’s: Nine new rental towers in the pipeline
The second tower of SoNo is just one of nine rental high-rises, comprising 3,456 apartments, that are either under construction, breaking ground in 20 [...]
SoNo rental tower underway
Crain’s Chicago Business is reporting (behind its paywall) that Smithfield Properties has secured construction financing for the second tower at SoNo [...]
Quote of the day: Giving it away at 200 Squared
"To get people in, they've needed to give away the store."
- Fifield Companies President Steven Fifield, giving his take on a competitor's attempt [...]
Are smaller lakefront condos headed for decline?
Recently, at sites where the wishful-thinkers don their blinkers and gather to blather about the future of Chicago’s lakefront market, there’s been a [...]