Bring the bucks if you want a new single-family home or townhome in Chicago

Townhomes are priced from the $490s to the $630s at Anchor General Contractor's Cornelia Court, 3001 W. Cornelia Ave.

Finding an affordably priced new single-family home or townhome in Chicago is difficult, but not impossible.

“As a devoted White Sox fan, Dawn Melchiorre is excited that her family is selling its Edgewater home and moving to a new house in Bridgeport Village, a development situated on the home turf of her beloved team.

But the location of Bridgeport Village, on the banks of the Chicago River at 33rd Street and Racine Avenue, isn’t the only thing that makes it a winner in Melchiorre’s eyes. Her new masonry five-bedroom house cost $875,000 at the Near South project — reasonable, she says, when you consider Chicago’s prohibitively expensive single-family home market.”

Read more in “Who wants to be a millionaire?” in September’s New Homes magazine.

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