Category: Luxury homes
Luxury houses, townhouses, condominiums and lofts in Chicago.
A walk through Celestial House
This is not your ordinary house tour. But then, Celestial House, 3350 S. Calumet Ave in Bronzeville, is no ordinary renovation, and developer Bill L [...]
Trump Tower aims high on riverfront
An awed "whoa" was Dana Sindha's gut reaction to Trump International Hotel & Tower, under construction at 401 N. Wabash Ave. in River North. The 27- [...]
Inside The Streeter: luxury apartments in Streeterville
In the second part of our series on luxury rentals, we focus on The Streeter, a 48-story, 481-unit tower located at 345 E Ohio St in Streeterville. [...]
ArtHouse 2007, a dual-purpose open house
YoJoe stopped by ArtHouse 2007 on the way home Friday night..
ArtHouse showcased the work of 12 Chicago artists in a 5,000 square foot newly-built [...]
Slow market? Not if you're cruising in the $4 million range, says Rubloff
Forty-seven homes priced at $4 million or more were sold in Chicago last year, up from 29 in 2005, according to statistics on new and resale condos an [...]
Inside the historic mansions of River North
Last week we told you about the three historic mansions that The Habitat Company is marketing in River North. Yo's truly peeked inside the homes rece [...]
We like to watch: inside Astor Street Victorian
For your pleasure, we cleverly timed our peek inside one of the most expensive homes on the Chicago market to coincide with the arrival of all those [...]
The Yo Yos: Most Luxurious Development, Best Conversion Project
Well, it's Day Three of the wildly successful Yo Yos, Chicago real estate's People's Choice Awards. Today's host is French-born Chinese-American virtu [...]
Trump calls Spire "financial suicide"
Yeah, we're as surprised as you are to hear that Donald Trump, whose Trump Tower sits about a mile away from the site of the proposed Chicago Spire, [...]
Millennium Park — a developer's perspective
Last Thursday Richard A. Hanson, president of Mesa Development, spoke about the Millennium Park area and his Legacy and Heritage developments, at The [...]
Why things work the way they work
Last Thursday, at The Gerald Fogelson Forum on Real Estate at Roosevelt University, Richard A. Hanson, president of Mesa Development, talked about som [...]
Vince Vaughn pays $12 million for Palmolive penthouse
RedEye confirms today what we told you a few weeks ago: that Vince Vaughn has purchased the top-floor duplex penthouse at The Palmolive Building, 159 [...]
RMI unveils design and details of luxury high-rise project, Lincoln Park 2520
Ta-dah! Introducing Lincoln Park 2520, architect Lucien Lagrange's latest luxury high-rise project. RMI Development is selling 325 residences on 3.4-a [...]
Land around Chicago River emerging as desirable high-end locale
Speaking of the marketability of the Chicago River, as we did earlier today, the tributary is emerging as a desirable location in the ultra-luxury hig [...]
Winthrop Club Condos – suburban ultra-luxury
What makes a suburban high-rise development "ultra-luxury"? Well, according to housing analyst Tracy Cross & Associates, any condo development with [...]
Ultra-luxury not just for the Gold Coast anymore
In the super-sized winter issue of New Homes Magazine, which hits the streets starting tomorrow and the 'net starting right now, ultra-luxury develo [...]
One Museum Park (west tower) – nice unit, shame about the furniture
Here's a model for The Enterprise Companies' One Museum Park (west tower). When you look at the exterior of this high-rise, it's kind of like lookin [...]
Is Trump's $28 million penthouse ambitious? Vince likes Palmolive just fine, thanks
Reader Sam asked Yo's truly what was the highest purchase price of a unit in downtown Chicago? Well we did a little digging, and we can't be definitiv [...]
The Ritz-Carlton waited five years for pole position on the Mag Mile
In a comment to an earlier post about Trump Tower, one of our readers was of the opinion that River North didn't qualify as a top-drawer downtown loca [...]
Trump is inviting you back to his penthouse
Speaking of the human hairdo, Donald Trump, as we were a little earlier today... Remember a while back how Trump announced that he planned to keep the [...]