Category: Real estate business
Chicago Plan Commission approves 64-unit project in Burnside area
The Chicago Plan Commission last week approved a proposal by 89th & State, LLC for 64 residential units in a mix of 24 single-family homes and 40 town [...]
How do you say margin compression in Polish?
According to at least one north shore developer, those pesky "Eastern Europeans" are buying high, and selling low, and making it hard to make an hones [...]
No way the Donald can trump this offer
Found this in an alley in the 1400 block of Belmont.
The alley location leads us to conclude that the selection process for apprentices is not very [...]
Talking urban planning in Garfield Park
The Public Square at the Illinois Humanities Council, and the Neghborhood Writing Alliance are hosting a discussion Saturday, May 20 on how urban plan [...]
Agents say MLS has yanked average market time search from database
As of today, Chicago homebuyers and sellers will no longer be able to rely on the state's largest real estate listing service to tell them how long ho [...]
Trib says it's official: Chicago is a buyer's market
The Trib led its Sunday edition this week with the news that Chicagoland is officially experiencing a buyer's market. Unofficially, most people - buye [...]
Thirty year old news
We've noticed a trend of real estate agent Web sites apparently claiming credit for the sales effort on projects with which they had little or no conn [...]
Neighborhood name game: Crain's 1, RedEye 0
You have to hand it to RedEye. The Trib's zombie rag today republished a rewritten version of the neighborhood name game story that Crain's published [...]
Gentry achieve total victory in Paulina corridor turf war
It's official. With the demolition this week of the sky blue water towers on the 2700 block of North Paulina, the paradigm shift, as they used to say [...]
A bubble in Lincoln Park agents
We're starting to see sites that enable consumers — in theory — to provide objective ratings of real estate agents.
Check out AgentLine, [...]
Diann Burns suing Metzler / Hull over house construction
WBBM-Channel 2 news anchor Diann Burns is suing Metzler / Hull Development, a well known builder of high-end custom homes, for allegedly doing substan [...]
Friday is why-oh-why-oh-why day
Why can't a mouse have kittens? Tell me, why oh why?
Why has the National Association of Realtors launched a campaign that includes pricey TV commerc [...]
Sudler buying Chaz's Hot Properties
Word has it that Sudler Sotheby's International Realty has bought Hot Property, the independent brokerage started by Chaz Walters.
Chaz got famous lo [...]
Pulte takes top slot in Crain's list of biggest builders
Pulte Homes is clear and away the Chicago area's largest home builder, according to a new survey by Crain's Chicago Business (sorry, the link might no [...]
Partners in Charity promises to stop misleading sellers
West Dundee-based Partners in Charity (PIC) and its president, Charles Konkus, recently consented to a civil injunction in a suit brought by the Unite [...]
Sandburg Village Zestimates from Zillow
We just put Zillow's value Zestimates™ to the test in two Sandburg Village buildings — 1255 and 1355 N Sandburg — and it appears to [...]
The world's first community association thriller novel
This might be old news to avid fans of both thriller novels and community associations, but we just stumbled across Special Assessment, real estate la [...]
MAP, MLSNI merger looking less likely
There's only about a 15 to 20 percent chance that the proposed merger between duelling multiple listing services, The Multiple Listing Service of Nort [...]
Demolition should have been starting point for Streeterville tower
Is this the ugliest garage you've ever seen? Sadly, it probably isn't, since an ugly garage base seems to have been a prerequisite for most resident [...]
Trump praises his penthouse, knocks Fordham Spire
Yesterday we reported that The Donald was keeping the $28 million penthouse at Trump International Hotel & Tower for his Chicago pad. The Chicago Sun- [...]