Category: Condo conversions
If Rapunzel lived in Chicago she'd live in Washington Park
Now there's a balcony that a girl could let her hair down from. We've been cruising around the Washington Park neighborhood, which is in the early sta [...]
Lincoln Park's Mildred Court needs a paint job
We've already told you about Lincoln Park's new stodgily-named Mildred Court condominiums, where one-bedroom units start in the $190s. With the rehab [...]
Beam me down, Scotty. I want a condo.
A Google Earth image, clearly showing the phone number to call at River City condos - but at what terrestrial code? [...]
Dude! I found an awesome condo in RedEye
Dude! Don't you think that free newspaper RedEye, like, totally rocks? Judging by the condo development ads that keep appearing in the Chicago Trib's [...]
Chicago's biggest condo conversion nears sellout in Lake View
Is that a solar eclipse or a condo conversion? According to developer Crescent Heights, the massive Park Place Tower, 655 W Irving Park Rd, is not o [...]
Affordable Washington Park has an interesting past
A while ago we told you how a bunch of developers is getting together to promote the South Shore as the city's hot new affordable neighborhood. But wh [...]
A mixologist on ice at The James hotel condos
Curious about what's on offer in a hotel condo, the newest trend in the Chicago real estate market, we took a quick look around a suite at The James, [...]
Small sells at The Flats on LaSalle
Just about anyone can afford to buy on the Gold Coast if they are prepared to think small enough. Just take The Flats on LaSalle, a conversion of an a [...]
Chicago's biggest condo conversion boom since '70s offers better variety, product
On a typical day at the sales office for The Park Millennium, a condo conversion project on the New East Side, a guide takes four or five potential bu [...]
Lake View church / condo conversion #3
This sanctuary at Barry and Clifton completes our trinity of Lake View church / condo conversions, for this week. On the left-hand side, through the [...]
Praise the Lord and cancel the college fund: Another Lake View church conversion
Earlier this week, we posted on an understated church / condo conversion at 1021 W Barry Ave. Just one block west, you can find a home for sale at a [...]
Is Chicago's condo craze giving way to the age of the rental?
Is Chicago's hyperactive condo conversion market finally taking a chill pill? Compiling a little guide to current conversion projects we notice that T [...]
Chicago condo conversions offer putting greens, libraries
We've been looking at what's offered at the different condo conversion projects around Chicago and noticed that some of them offer more amenities than [...]
Park Millennium units selling at rate of 49 a month
It seems that everyone wants a piece of Park Millennium, the three-year-old apartment building at 222 N. Columbus Drive, that's going condo.
Carrie M [...]
Active condo conversion market in Chicago in 2005
Everyone's going condo. At least that was the big story for 2005. Last year, some 3,832 apartment units went condo in the downtown area, making it one [...]
Getting into the Park
Rare condo conversions selling while luxury resales linger in Lincoln Park
Margot Huston was visiting her son at his rental apartment in the vintage h [...]
Attractive rehabs, pricing and locations let conversions compete with new condos
Housing Watch
By the end of 2005, more than 4,000 rental units in downtown Chicago will have converted to condominiums, according to estimates by App [...]
'05 condo conversion boom offers buyers more variety than '70s wave
Housing Watch
During 1979, the height of condomania in the Windy City, nearly 4,800 rental apartments were converted to condominiums in downtown Chica [...]
Gaining converts
Highrise condo conversion boom is biggest since '79
Rob and Linda Williams spent a year and a half scouring Chicago for the perfect condominium, but [...]
Rezmar to start Riverside District in 1st quarter '06
Rezmar Development Group will open residential sales at the Riverside District, a 62-acre mixed-use community planned for the South Loop, during the [...]