Author: Joseph Askins
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 [...]
Rental watch: 2 homes for $2,000
The median price for a downtown home listed for rent on the MLS is holding steady at $2,000 a month. In the past seven days, two condos, both in the S [...]
Play ball!
If you listened to sports radio this morning, you know the Cubby Bear was packed with drunks by 8 a.m. Baseball has returned to Wrigleyville!
Y [...]
Children’s Museum out, Walmart in at Grant Park
With the Chicago Children's Museum looking more and more likely to stay at Navy Pier, the Daley Administration has found a new use for the part of [...]
Don’t like Orchard Village’s prices? Make them an offer
The featured ad at Apartments.com
for Aurora's Orchard Village says "Don't like our prices? Make us an offer."
The analysts tell us that the r [...]
Riding the Red Line: Harrison
The first leg of my video tour up the Red Line ended at the Harrison station, the second stop (from south to north) along the line's section of su [...]
From $258K to $1.28M for a Kenwood Victorian
The title for this 1890s Victorian home at 5040 S Blackstone Ave in Kenwood bounced around a lot over the past decade. According to Blockshopper, [...]
Nine questions for a landlord
Earlier this month we received a media release from RMK Management's president, Anthony Rossi Jr, offering nine sets of questions that a prospective r [...]
Dewes Mansion finally gets its listing
In November we learned that the Francis J. Dewes Mansion at 503 W Wrightwood Ave in Lincoln Park was available for $9.9 million. Yesterday, the ho [...]
Will R. Kelly’s old pad be No. 1 in Lake View?
R. Kelly's old den of sin at 1010 W George St (you know, the place where the dirty stuff went down) is under contract and set to close over the fr [...]
Three bedrooms inside a ‘Gothic jewel box’, listed at $779K
Realtor Richard Cohn describes the vintage 10-unit building at 500 - 504 W Barry Ave in Lakeview East as "an architecturally significant, Gothic jewel [...]
Dart family bails out Walton on the Park
Walton on the Park doesn't have to worry about that pesky construction loan anymore. According to Crain's, the Dart family -- owners of Dart Container [...]
Landmark living at $99 per square foot
Last May I stumbled across Fred Scovell's listing for a Queen Anne-style mansion at 2801 S Prairie Ave on the Near South Side. His listing had no [...]
One South Halsted presentation scheduled for Wednesday
West Loopers can get the scoop on F&F Realty's One South Halsted proposal during a community meeting scheduled for Wednesday evening.
Alderman Wal [...]
Riding the Red Line: Roosevelt
The third stop on my tour of the Red Line was the Roosevelt station near Roosevelt Road and State Street in the South Loop.
Traveling north fro [...]
An ‘impeccable restoration’ in Wilmette, priced at $2.25M
This 6,000 square-foot single-family home at 744 Sheridan Rd in Wilmette was the Wall Street Journal's House of the Day on Monday. In a 10-photo s [...]
Case-Shiller Tuesday: A ‘dismal start’ to 2011
Home values got off to "a dismal start" this year, according to the latest Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report from Standard & Poor's. Prices in th [...]
A spacious single-family in Lake View, priced below the median
Last week I drove up to Lake View to see one of Eric Rojas' newest listings -- a four-bedroom / 3.5-bath single-family home at 2911 N Racine Ave, [...]
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Rogers Park gets a LEED Silver building
Cleaning out the Yo inbox is like digging in between sofa cushions -- all sorts of goodies can fall beneath the cracks. Take, for example, the announc [...]
‘But hey, I lied. I’m in real estate.’
Maybe Yo could learn a thing or two from the Aussies -- saucy and suggestive real estate videos are all the rage down under. [...]