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Southport Corridor
The Southport Corridor has become one of Chicago’s most sought-after neighborhoods, and it’s easy to see why. The pedestrian-friendly streets are packed with restaurants, bars, boutiques, coffee shops and new grocery stores. The neighborhood’s tree-lined side streets offer a wide variety of housing options, with a great deal of new and newer construction and easy ...
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Posted by sponsored post on May 24, 2013
Eric Rojas, one of our sponsors, is an active blogger who spends a lot of time on the streets looking at and then reporting on what’s new and interesting. Yesterday Eric focused on new construction along Lakewood Ave in the Southport Corridor. One of the properties Eric spotlighted was a new home on a corner ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 13, 2013
Attention to detail is evident throughout this 8,000 square-foot custom home built on a 37.5-foot wide lot in Lake View’s attractive Southport Corridor. The home, at 3720 N Greenview Ave, is listed for sale at $2,750,000. Koenig & Strey associate, Michael Shenfeld takes us on a video tour of this “Smart Home,” which boasts 5 ...
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Posted by sponsored post on January 4, 2013
I haven’t seen the newly-listed home at 3743 N Greenview, but the listing pictures showcase an ingenious package of outdoor spaces that includes a 3-hole mini-golf course on a bi-level deck atop a 3-car garage. There’s also a yard with a bluestone patio and a trellis-sheltered deck with a fireplace, one of 5 in the ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on October 9, 2012
Five years ago we were reporting that plans for two duplex condos at 1544 W Henderson St were added to the development deadpool. A little over a year ago, in the above video, Melanie Giglio of Sergio & Banks was showing me around a new home that had been built on the site several years ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on July 24, 2012
You’ll find a number of multi-million dollar homes north of Addison along Wayne and Janssen. The home pictured above at 3804 N Janssen, for example, had once been listed for more than $3.5M and just came back on the market at an asking price of $3.295M. The 6-bedroom home, with 5 full and 2 half ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 13, 2012
Curbed Chicago is in the final round of Curbed Cup, a contest to select Chicago’s best neighborhood of 2011. The finalists are Uptown, which won last year’s Curbed Cup, and West Lakeview. West Lakeview? To add an element of whimsy (absurdity?) to the contest, Curbed included an amorphous neighborhood which may or may not exist, ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 30, 2011
Today’s rental deal of the day from Chicago Rentals Direct is a 750 square-foot one-bedroom / one-bath with a study and a large rear deck, located just two blocks east of the Southport corridor and priced at $950 a month. The garden apartment at 3306 N Racine Ave in Lake View features hardwood floors, a ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on April 27, 2011
Since going on the market in February at $3.45 million, the single-family home at 1236 W Cornelia Ave in Lake View has dropped in price by more than 30 percent, to a current list price of $2.35 million. The 6,000 square-foot six-bedroom, built in 2008, is “a place of gentility & luxury perfectly positioned on ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on August 13, 2010
The cost of this single-family home at 3804 N Janssen Ave just dropped by $200,000, which might mean more if it weren’t so expensive to begin with. Even at its new price of $3.39 million, the 7,300 square-foot home is still the most expensive property for sale in the Blaine School District, a coveted Lake ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on May 21, 2010
It’s not enough to compare one home in Roscoe Village to all the others in the neighborhood. As buyers on the North Side focus more on price point, Realtor Jenny Ames finds herself pulling together comps from as far north as Andersonville and as far south as Ukrainian Village. In this video, she talks about ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on October 25, 2009
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