Author: Joseph Askins
Finding more homes for rent on a Bucktown drive
Earlier this week, Joe Zekas and I wound our way through a few streets in Bucktown, searching for FOR RENT signs. As you saw yesterday, we found e [...]
John Buck sues 199 East Lake Shore board over $8,600 monthly assessment hike
Developer John Buck's been fighting off a hike in his monthly assessments for almost three years. Now, says Crain's, he's taken his beef with 199 East [...]
A $400K discount on a Northfield single-family
When Joe Zekas first visited the family-friendly six-bedroom / 4.5-bath home at 775 Sunset Ridge Rd in Northfield, it was priced at $1.95 million. [...]
Two Tudors come to market in Oak Park
A couple of the newest single-family home listings in Oak Park are identically aged Tudor-style homes starting at similar prices.
One, a 2,247 [...]
Two bedrooms, two baths, a rooftop deck, and a quick trip to Wrigley, priced at $1,895
If your ideal summer weekend is spent a) manning a grill and taking in some sun, b) hanging out at the ball park, and / or c) spending as little time [...]
Spacious Ravenswood home on a large lot, listed $105K below 2007 price
This "fantastic and spacious" four-bedroom home at 4829 N Paulina St sold for $805,000 back in June 2007, according to Zillow. In February 2009, i [...]
Driving Bucktown, looking for FOR RENT signs
Many Chicago apartments are never advertised on Craigslist or in any other online or print media, and those apartments are often some of the best [...]
Loft living: A ‘picture perfect’ three-bedroom at River North Commons
Timber! Unit #212 at River North Commons, 520 W Huron St, is a "picture perfect," "sun-filled" three-bedroom / two-bath loft that was listed last [...]
Name the nabe of the Humpty on the prairie
All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't figure out where this egg-cellent effigy of Humpty Dumpty resides, but maybe you can. Be the [...]
Riding the Red Line: Monroe
The next stop on my trip up the Red Line was the Monroe subway station near the intersection of Monroe and State in the Loop. It's so close to the [...]
ParkView East parcel shopped around
If you kept up with every high-rise proposal and long-term plan for build-out over the last decade, you might find this news nugget from the Sun-Times [...]
Slow times for Downers Grove’s upscale market
There are 15 homes listed for sale in Downers Grove in the $1 million and up range, but only two sales have closed in the last six months.
Most [...]
Great Walk Scores for under a grand in Lake View
Let's say you're looking for an apartment in Lake View for yourself and yourself alone. Let's say you're willing to spend up to $1,000 a month on [...]
Modernist Atrium Home in Kenwood listed for $369K
The uninitiated will wonder why Jeanne Spurlock of Century 21 Kennedy Ryan is marketing a drab brick bunker near Madison Park and Dorchester Avenu [...]
First quarter figures: Stuff that sells in Old Town
Here are four homes on the high end of the Old Town home market that closed between January 1 and March 31, according to Redfin's records:
Cond [...]
$200K off in a year for a vintage Lakeview East condo
Last week's price cut at 434 W Oakdale Ave #2 didn't strike me as the "massive price reduction" advertised in its listing -- according to Redfin, [...]
Rent for $3,500, buy for $625K in Bucktown
One of the newest rental listings in Bucktown is a Colonial-style single-family at 1637 N Honore St (between North and Wabansia avenues), priced at $3 [...]
Yo’s Believe It or Not: The Abbott House fence
Last month Curbed reported that the landmark Abbott House at 4605 N Hermitage Ave in Uptown had closed for $1.6 million. We recently picked up a b [...]
Owners ready for return on investment at Elysian
The latest listing at The Elysian, a 3,972 square-foot four-bedroom on the tower's 49th floor, hit the market last Friday at $5.19 million, less than [...]
Weekend reads from the news feed
Not every story we add to our Chicago Real Estate News feed warrants "top story" status or a "quote of the day" post, but that doesn't make it any les [...]