Tag: Rentals
Deal of the day: Rent at 200 Squared, win (the chance to win) a new Smart car
Is a name in a hat a worthwhile incentive for leasing a Loop apartment? Draper and Kramer thinks so. The first big promotion for D&K's 200 Squ [...]
Ravenswood and Montrose in Hyde Park?
Move.com recently rolled out a revamp of its rental search, and the site apparently has a few kinks to work out.
Silver Clouds (sic) Apartments [...]
Downtown’s rental inventory: a year in review
Fifty-two weeks ago, we started tracking the number of homes listed for rent in 14 different downtown-area ZIP codes. (Every Friday, using the "re [...]
Quote of the day: Up in smoke
"The good majority are smaller landlords who have had their apartment buildings for 20 or 30 years, and they're thinking they're going to rehab them i [...]
Condo associations rethinking rental restrictions
"It's a concern, but I have a sense that most buildings in this neighborhood have put their concerns about rentals on the back burner as long as asses [...]
Lease-up for downtown’s newest apartment buildings nears halfway point
Roughly half of the apartments in downtown's seven newest rental high-rises are now under lease, according to Appraisal Research Counselors' latest Do [...]
(Almost) a year of condo rental listings in Streeterville
Next Friday we'll complete our first year of following condo rental listings in 14 downtown ZIP codes. I'll post the overall trend line next week, [...]
Rumor mill: New plans for Peshtigo site?
I'm not big on Realtor society gossip and luncheon recaps, so I normally skip over Agent X's "Agent About Town" writeups in Chicago Agent Magazine. Th [...]
Rent or buy a Pumpkin’s pad
Today is the greatest...time to buy! Despite all his rage, Billy Corgan's home is still...oh, forget it.
The Smashing Pumpkins frontman has been tr [...]
Quote of the day: Joining the Rentership Society
In the American mind, renters are regarded as an unsavory lot, willful dissidents from the American dream. They do things like put cars up on cinder b [...]
Pups on parade
Over the weekend Joe Z. posted some pics from a Halloween dog parade outside Alta at K Station in the Fulton River District. In case you missed the [...]
Quote of the day: EnV misses the mark
We thought we could deliver a product that renters would appreciate and pay for.
Not yet, apparently. That's David Lynd of the Lynd Company, on his e [...]
Top-of-the-line rentals: the priciest new listings in downtown Chicago
More than 160 condos, townhomes, and single-families in 14 downtown ZIP codes have entered the MLS as rentals over the past seven days. These six unit [...]
One Superior Place, then and now
One Superior Place, one of the two most expensive rental high-rises in downtown Chicago, is up for sale, according to Crain's.
CB Richard Ellis ha [...]
City approves redevelopment plan for Grand Boulevard apartment complex
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The Community Development Commission on Tuesday approved a $26.8 million plan to replace 60 old townhome-style apartments in the the [...]
The party has started at EnV in River North
Today Mark Boyer stumbled across the Facebook page for 200 Squared, the new rental high-rise at Lake and Wells street in the Loop, and posted a fe [...]
Vultures see rental potential for Trio's tower and 1400 Lake Shore Drive
"We would lose the properties one way or another. This seemed like the most responsible way to go."
- RDM Development President Robert Mosky, on h [...]
Get a charge out of Parc Huron's garage
To get LEED Gold certification, a development needs at least 60 credits' worth of green things. Parc Huron earned three of those credits by installi [...]
Brand new decades old Lincoln Park rentals
The sign touting “brand new” luxury rentals outside Eugenie Terrace is a bit disconcerting to anyone who remembers when the high-rise was built in t [...]
Elm Street Plaza, then and now
This afternoon's selection from the Yo archives is our old folder of prices and floor plans for the 33-story, 395-unit Elm Street Plaza, located at 11 [...]