3/20/11
Crain’s Chicago Business is reporting (apparently behind its paywall) that a deal is imminent for the sale of the Roosevelt Collection in the South...
3/18/11
The inventory of downtown Chicago homes and condos listed for rent in the MLS rose 7.9% during this past week, from 976 units to...
3/18/11
Last Saturday we suggested that an apartment locator (a/k/a bedbug) by the name of Ginger Summers quit spamming Craigslist with thousands of repetitive ads....
3/14/11
Management companies, individual property owners and legitimate real estate brokers can quickly and easily clean up the mess that the apartment locator services that...
3/12/11
Between midnight yesterday and 8:42 this morning, an apartment rental bedbug by the name of Ginger Summers placed 962 housing for rent ads on...
3/8/11
Chicago’s apartment locators – we call them bedbugs – engage in wholesale bait-and-switch advertising on Craigslist. When you see enough rental service ads, you’d...
3/6/11
The median net rent per square foot at suburban Chicago apartment complexes rose 7.4% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to a...
3/4/11
Apartment rentals have become less seasonal than in years past, when the majority of leases turned over on May 1st or October 1st, but...
2/25/11
The Sun-Times leads with the good news from a newly-issued report from the Chicago Loop Alliance: a growing residential population, more hotel rooms, parks...
2/3/11
YoChicago has a huge library of drive-around video shot on sunny days this past summer in north suburban and North Shore communities. I just...
2/2/11
“We hope the new owners keep the building up and keep a mix of locals and independents,” says Melissa Flynn, executive director of the...
1/27/11
Like most cities, Evanston has an ordinance that limits the number of unrelated individuals who can occupy a dwelling unit to three. In a...
1/26/11
Thinking about a summer weekend getaway place near the lake? There’s a rarely-available rental in a HIghland Park coach house across the street from...
1/24/11
At YoChicago we refer to apartment rental services, also known as locators and finders, as bedbugs. It’s our shorthand way of informing you that...
1/17/11
Crain’s Chicago Business is reporting (behind its paywall) that Smithfield Properties has secured construction financing for the second tower at SoNo and has begun...
1/12/11
Recently, at sites where the wishful-thinkers don their blinkers and gather to blather about the future of Chicago’s lakefront market, there’s been a recurring...
1/10/11
Finding an apartment in many of Chicago’s neighborhoods is a quick, pleasant walk in the park compared to finding one in New York and...
1/10/11
The Windermere House, 1642 E 56th St, has an enviable location a short distance from Lake Shore Drive and a Metra station, fronting the...
12/22/10
Back in August of 2009 we reported that apartment locator bedbugs (we used to call them maggots) were beginning to swarm the Roosevelt Collection...
12/3/10
Only time will tell whether a new owner will result in less fur flying at 12 Oaks at Woodfield, but the 12 Mexican flags...