Category: Apartments
Mexican flags no longer fly at Rolling Meadows complex
Only time will tell whether a new owner will result in less fur flying at 12 Oaks at Woodfield, but the 12 Mexican flags unfurled over the Rolling Mea [...]
Ravenswood and Montrose in Hyde Park?
Move.com recently rolled out a revamp of its rental search, and the site apparently has a few kinks to work out.
Silver Clouds (sic) Apartments [...]
How Chicago landlords can eliminate the Craigslist bedbug infestation
Almost everyone who has searched for an apartment in Chicago recently knows that bedbugs – also known as apartment rental services and finders – h [...]
Apartment rental bedbugs infest Glenview
Some of you may be familiar wth my long-standing practice of referring to apartment rental services as maggots.
I’ve decided that reference is unfa [...]
Aqua apartments deal goes down the drain
Crain’s ChicagoBusiness spills the story that a Dallas-based investor has washed out of its deal to soak up a 75% stake in the Aqua apartments. [...]
Brand new decades old Lincoln Park rentals
The sign touting “brand new” luxury rentals outside Eugenie Terrace is a bit disconcerting to anyone who remembers when the high-rise was built in t [...]
South Loop rental market is very active
Yesterday we linked to a Crain's story which reported, as a side note, that AMLI900 was fully leased. A source we talked to expressed skepticism about [...]
AMLI Residential, Fox & Obel coming to River North
Crain's is reporting that AMLI Residential Partners plans to build a 49-story rental tower on leased land at the southeast corner of Clark and Hubba [...]
Quote of the day – Don't rent from Beal
The message in the headline is repeated over and over in 54 Yelp reviews of Beal Properties, and the other names under which Beal allegedly does busin [...]
Yo's list – a guide to renting Loop / New East Side apartments and condos
There are 1,000s of ads on Craigslist for Loop / New East Side apartments, most of them featuring the eleven (that’s all there are) rental high-rise [...]
Maggot-mashing 101: A guide to renting in the South Loop
There are 1,000s of ads on Craigslist for South Loop apartments, most of them touting the fewer than a dozen major apartment complexes in the South [...]
Plan Commission approves major redevelopment of Lake Meadows
The Plan Commission's approval of a mixed-use development across from Wrigley Field won all the headlines last week (more on that one later), but an [...]
A sunny morning tour of University Village with Realtor Gary Lucido
Yesterday Joe and I traveled south down Halsted to meet Realtor and Chicago Now blogger Gary Lucido outside home in University Village. Gary, who ha [...]
Habitat Company's Mark Segal, on succeeding two Chicago icons
The Habitat Company has changed the face of Chicago. Over the past 30 years, Habitat has developed more than 17,000 residential units and currently [...]
Meet Patricia, Chicago's first door-cierge
We stopped by 215 West Washington Friday for a first look at this new Loop apartment tower. 215 West just received its certificate of occupancy thro [...]
Yo's year: Whatever happened to Pure?
The Pure scandal was already in full swing by the beginning of 2009. It kicked off back in September 2008, when developer Salman Ibrahim absconded to [...]
Quote of the day: apartment absorption uncertainties
From Appraisal Research Counselors ("ARC") 3rd Quarter 2009 Downtown Chicago Residential Benchmark Report, commenting on prospects for downtown apartm [...]
Web presence: OK at K Station
Welcome to the another installment of our ongoing “Web presence” feature, in which we collect as many links as we can for one residential developme [...]