Author: barry pearce
Yo tours Ravenswood Manor with Chris Moran
The Yo took its own video tour of Ravenswood Manor recently, focusing heavily on the charming housing stock ("charming" is a real estate cliche we're [...]
"190 North" paddles through Ravenswood Manor, Rockwell
The popular ABC7 TV show "190 North" highlights Ravenswood Manor and the revitalized commercial on Rockwell Street, just east of the river, in this we [...]
Chicago deal of the day – free assessments at Flats on LaSalle
Metropolitan Development Enterprises is offering a year of free assessments (valued at $2,400 to $2,900) to buyers at its Flats on LaSalle project, t [...]
Condo watch – Trump Tower by night
We've devoted a lot of pixels lately to Trump International Hotel & Tower, but since this 92-story giant of a high-rise is going to be one of the ke [...]
New Ravenswood home fit for a (Norman) king
For those who think, the bigger the bay, the better, this new-construction Ravenswood home might be just the thing. It can't really claim to fit in [...]
YoChicago hiring new-home shoppers, editorial assistant
Like what you're reading on YoChicago? Want to help us make it even better?
YoChicago is hiring a full-time editorial assistant whose duties will in [...]
Hotel condos have mixed record so far in Chicago housing market
Chicago has plunged into hotel condominiums - a concept that was alien to the city just a few years ago - in a big way. At least seven hotel condo d [...]
Condos proving a good sub for rowdy roller rink
The stretch of North Clark Street between Lawrence and Winnemac avenues in Uptown has always been a little bleak - a cemetery, a body shop, a giant t [...]
Cure for a rainy day – pho and window shopping on Argyle in Chicago's Asian village
Nothing will perk you up on a rainy day like a little pho and a stroll - or dash - down Argyle Street, in Uptown. During yesterday's deluge, we head [...]
Deluge of new condo buildings can be neighborhood scourge
Sorry for the biblical headline there, but yesterday's relentless rain and peals of thunder put us in a biblical frame of mind. Noah, no doubt, woul [...]
Boomer penchant for reinvention spreads to Chicago building facades
Yo's good friend and sometime contributor Phil Berger asserts that a flurry of reinvented Chicago buildings, from the made-over Montgomery Ward headqu [...]
Advice for flipping that condo in a down market
Baird & Warner real estate agent Greg Jarvis tells a happy tale of flipping in our Condo flipper journal. His clients bought a Lincoln Park duplex at [...]
Wrightwood Neighbors tour part II – $750,000 teardowns are common
Check out part II of our tour of the "Wrightwood Neighbors" section of Lincoln Park, aka West DePaul, hosted by real estate agent and ChiTownLiving [...]
Fleur-de-Lis condo conversion resurrects an Uptown beauty
We've noticed the historic building at the corner of Winthrop and Lawrence avenues plenty of times, but we never knew it was called the "Fleur-de-Li [...]
D.R. Horton thinks '07 will "suck" – what do you think?
We first heard the quote on NPR's Marketplace show yesterday evening, but it has made the rounds plenty since then. "I don't want to be too sophistica [...]
Write about your 'hood for Yo – volunteer party tonight at Kasey's Tavern in Printers Row
We can't guarantee that flowers will be blooming outside of Kasey's Tavern, at 701 S Dearborn St in the South Loop, tonight, but we can promise one h [...]
Agent tour focuses on Evanston's new construction
YoChicago had a very pleasant lunch today with Deena Zimmerman of Metro Chicago Real Estate and Kate Clapp, of Stewart Title of Illinois. The dynamic [...]
Ripped from the headlines: foes attack Daley on TIFs
Terrapin gets $83.5M loan for Burnham Pointe Globe St.
Foes attack Daley TIFs Sun-Times
Bill targets predatory mortgage brokers Sun-Times
Humboldt mur [...]
City new-home sales have slowed, but no bubble on horizon
Pontificating about a possible housing bubble seems to be everyone's favorite pastime these days, which makes hard numbers all the more valuable. Hous [...]
Quote of the day: cash it in, Burt
"Natarus (42nd) also let drop that his pension vested six years ago. Do us all a favor and cash it in."
-- Blogger Mike Doyle writing on Chicago Carl [...]