Author: Joseph Askins
Why are home buyers so skittish?
Why aren't more people taking the plunge on a new condominium or townhouse at the moment?
“They think that things may be worse than they are. They [...]
Talking ten-pins at 565 Quincy
The folks at Belgravia Group are good sports (even if a couple aren't particularly good at sports). We met up with president Alan Lev, sales directo [...]
Breaking down Six North May's floor plans
Since my last post about RMR Partners’ Six North May was also Yo’s first, I figured I’ll follow up with a look at one of the building’s floor plans.
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Sales update: Zen sales up to 85 percent
"Finally, the West Loop appears to have had enough of bland brick mid-rises all cut from the same cloth. Or maybe developers realized that if they w [...]
FitzGerald honored for work at Oakwood Shores
FitzGerald Associates Architects recently received a 2008 Charter Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism for its work on the Oakwood Shores de [...]
Model opens at Parkside of Old Town
Parkside of Old Town (which we've mentioned twice over the past two days) has just opened a townhouse model near its sales center at 465 W Division St [...]
Residences at Burnham Pointe in jeopardy?
Chicago-based Terrapin Properties LLC may be in danger of dissolution following a foreclosure suit against one of the company's Kenosha, Wisc., develo [...]
Deal watch: $100,000 in upgrades at Residences of Old Irving Park model
Want to ensure that your new place actually looks like the one you toured? Why not buy the model unit?
CA Development, developer of The Residences [...]
Construction checkup: Roosevelt Square
Construction is progressing at Roosevelt Square, Related Midwest and Quest Development Group's massive, multi-phase residential project in Universit [...]
First Trump flip sells for $899,000
Surprise! The flipping has begun at Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago.
The Sun-Times reports that the owners of a 21st-story hotel condom [...]
Oh Vanstrand, won't ya buy me a Mercedes Benz?
I worked across from the River Street Plaza construction site in a past life. We’d look out the windows at the office and wonder when the condos wou [...]
Sales update: Parkside of Old Town's Phase I sales at 80 percent
A reader recently used our handy tip line to ask for a status update on Parkside of Old Town, the 800-home development that’s replacing part of Cab [...]
Single-family living attainable at Cornelia Court
To get a good single-family home in Chicago, buyers will have to give up an arm and a leg... right?
Not if they're shopping at Cornelia Court, says [...]
X/O towers to improve South Loop skyline
In the March edition of New Homes Magazine, Dana Dubriwny takes a look at the creation of Kargil Development's X/O Condominiums. X/O's two towers, it [...]
Developers offering incentives at Westbrook Condos
Hillside has a population of only 8,100, but the suburban village bills itself as the area's "metro gateway." Interstate Properties Group hopes the [...]
Fifteen furnished models on display at 1720 S Michigan
In March, New Homes Magazine looks at CMK Companies' 1720 S Michigan, a 33-story high-rise built at the site of the South Loop's old Cotton Club.
P [...]
Another way of looking at Emerald and Pure
I didn't include floor plans for the two-bedroom condos at Emerald and Pure in Wednesday's comparison post, but I wanted to give readers a chance t [...]
Stately Hoyne Manor facing foreclosure
A Gurnee-based lender is giving Greenlight Development LLC the red light over a Rogers Park development, Crain's reports.
Greenlight failed to pay [...]
Sales update: Eight homes remaining at Six North May
This is more an introduction than an update, simply because we haven't covered Six North May up to this point, but you might be interested to hear t [...]
New on the market: 10-unit conversion at 1657 – 1659 W Foster Ave
The thing Barbara O’Connor likes most about working with the Kuzmanic brothers is that they get things right the first time.
“I’ve never had anyone [...]