Tag: Winnetka
North Shore rental market tightens further
We've been tracking the MLS-listed inventory of homes and condos offered for rent in Chicago's North Shore communities every week for the last 51 [...]
Tony Grunsfeld, North Shore modernist architect
News of the death last Friday of Ernest A. Grunsfeld III, better known as Tony Grunsfeld, was relayed by the Tribune's Blair Kamin.
Many of Gru [...]
Description vs photo disconnect in $419K Winnetka 4-bedroom
If you haven't paid attention to Winnetka home prices for the last four years, the notion of a $419,000 4-bedroom, 2-bath home on a 50 x 187 lot i [...]
Winnetka, the teardown capital of Cook County
View Winnetka teardowns & new construction in a larger map
The current issue of Crain’s Chicago Business (subscription required) reports a mode [...]
Rare Kenilworth rental at $1,000 a month
Have you been longing to ditch your basement apartment in Uptown for an address in tiny, tony Kenilworth but thought you’d never be able to afford [...]
Winnetka address, Kenilworth school district
There’s a small pocket of Winnetka, just south of New Trier High School, that blends seamlessly into Kenilworth and is in Kenilworth School Dist [...]
A Winnetka new construction price misjudgment
I walk through and report on many homes during the course of a year, but rarely express an opinion on price. Saying anything useful would require [...]
Glencoe open house pick: walk-to-train contemporary
The Village of Glencoe, like most North Shore communities, revels in its rich architectural heritage.
North Shore home buyers have long exhibit [...]
Municipal service rates on the rise in Winnetka
The average Winnetka home will see the cost of municipal services increase by 2.1%, or $125.
The increase consists of a 1.4% ($37) rise in prop [...]
Deerfield Village Board meetings now on video
Attending a village board meeting can sometimes be a great way to learn the flavor of a community you might be considering for your next move. You can [...]
Misquote of the day – only 30 $1M plus sales
Many of the numbers he talks about these days aren't very pretty, particularly when it comes to Moorehead's sweet spot: upper-bracket homes.
Accord [...]
Winnetka open house – a walk-to-school block
Once again we’re dipping into YoChicago’s extensive video vault of summer drives through the north and North Shore suburbs.
Winnetka District 3 [...]
New to market: a Winnetka widow’s walk
The broker calls the structure atop this newly-listed lakefront home in Winnetka a gazebo. I’d call it a widow’s walk but would compromise on wido [...]
Houston comes to the North Shore
The buzz in Winnetka this morning was about executives from Continental Airlines, now part of United, house-hunting on the North Shore. Brokers ar [...]
Coldwell Banker leads Wilmette, Winnetka and Kenilworth sales in 2010
Coldwell Banker had the largest number of closed home sales during calendar year 2010 in Wilmette, Winnetka and Kenilworth.
In Wilmette, where [...]
Listed for $979K in Winnetka, sells for $800K
Last April I visited the 5-bedroom, 3 ½ bath home at 397 Sunset Rd in Winnetka, shortly after it came on the market.
The home was directly acro [...]
Winnetka Plan Commission approves affordable housing plan despite opposition
The Village of Winnetka's Plan Commission recently considered, and adopted, a plan to expand the availability of affordable housing in the affluen [...]
Yo’s guide to moving to Winnetka
Winnetka is home to "the educated affluent," says Joe Zekas, a place with a largely unwarranted reputation when it comes to social snobbery and viewe [...]
$5 million – now that’s a price reduction
A Winnetka manse that I wrote about just yesterday, when it was on the market for $28 million, was reduced today to $23 million. It originally cam [...]
An upbeat, happy home in Winnetka’s Hubbard Woods
A few short years ago your search for a 5-bedroom home for less than $1M in Hubbard Woods or any part of East Winnetka would have presented you with [...]