Category: Apartments, rentals
The biggest problem with rental services
Joe Zekas has had his eye on apartment rental services for the past couple of weeks, and to get the inside scoop on some of the problems that plague [...]
Is there a need for Homescout Realty?
In a comment on an earlier YoChicago post Michael Krasman, one of the founders of Homescout Realty (I don't link to apartment rental services) posed t [...]
Don't call this number: 773-273-7079
If you search 773-273-7079 in the apartments section on Craigslist you'll find 1,000 ads for apartments for rent. If you Google the number you'll find [...]
Maggots begin to swarm Roosevelt Collection
After long experience, I've formed very strong opinions about apartment rental services, and often find myself shortening the phrase "apartment rental [...]
We love lists: Chicago's new rental towers
As regular readers can probably tell by now, Jeremy and I are becoming more and more familiar with a part of the housing market that we haven't covere [...]
Appraisal Research: Condos for rent, online resources putting pressure on apartments
With 4,546 new construction condo units delivering in 2009, we expect the number of condo units available for rent to continue escalating.
We continu [...]
New condo and loft rentals springing up in River North and Near South Side
If you can't sell 'em, rent 'em. That's the thinking at several new developments right now. The latest examples I've come across are the condos availa [...]
Why own at Mod when you can rent?
Okay, that's a deceptive headline, because it implies you actually have a choice. Sources at Chicago Graystone Realty and Jameson Real Estate both c [...]
Magellan ready to lease Aqua's apartments
We spend a lot of time keeping up with Aqua's condominiums, but what about its apartments? It's easy to forget that rentals will make up 33 of the t [...]
Leasing "the 200 North Dearborn lifestyle"
In another sign of the times, it looks like American Invsco has turned from promoting sales at its 200 North Dearborn conversion at 200 N Dearborn St [...]
Parc Huron to live again as a rental tower
The one bare corner of Huron and Kingsbury Streets in River North won't be bare for much longer, according to several news sources. Lennar scrapped it [...]
Sign of the times: 20-unit West Loop development to become rental apartments
I've been keeping an eye on this large brick development at 1342 W Randolph St in the West Loop for several weeks, but I've never seen a construction [...]
Nearly half of Chess Lofts' homes up for rent
“If you’re really set on buying a unit, you probably could,” says Olin Eargle from Real Living Helios Rentals, but most of the homes that have not alr [...]
Construction checkup: Roosevelt Square
Construction is progressing at Roosevelt Square, Related Midwest and Quest Development Group's massive, multi-phase residential project in Universit [...]
Firebird rolls out rent-to-own program in Rogers Park
We've heard it time and time again from our Realtor friends: Don't throw your money away by renting.
But in today's market, with prices in some nei [...]
Development booms along Belmont in Avondale
Avondale is just outside the orbit of hot neighborhoods like Lake View, Lincoln Park and Lincoln Square, and as a result new homes tend to be a bit [...]
GreenBean profiles Chicago's 1st green high-rise apartments
GreenBean has a profile on Chicago's first green high-rise apartment building, planned for 900 S Clark St, just north of the Roosevelt Road Target sto [...]
For sale or for rent at Gunnison Street Lofts
Here's something we don't see every day. At Gunnison Street Lofts in Uptown, Finnegan Development is listing units for sale or for rent (for example [...]
Rents and schools on the rise in Ravenswood?
YoChicago's Joe Zekas and neighborhood resident and Chicago Home Estates sales agent Eric Rojas talk about rental and for-sale housing prices in Rav [...]