Category: Single-family homes
The other side of the tracks: 5 Ravenswood homes starting in $990s
Train tracks aren't usually considered a residential amenity - most people consider them an eyesore and noisy to boot. I'd argue that the tracks tha [...]
Comment of the day: homebuyers will wax nostalgic for masonry construction
"One hundred years from now (after the Great DeHydrocarbonation, World War III, and the initiation of Martian colonies), people traveling to "historic [...]
Sales update: 7 left at Geneva Terrace Estates
Lincoln Park has a healthy sprinkling of jumbo-sized new houses, most of them at scattered infill sites. At Geneva Terrace Estates, 22 custom singl [...]
New construction weathers the storm in Lake View
Almost all of the signs of last week's storm have been cleared from the streets and roofs and yards of northwestern Lake View, and I just got electric [...]
Elsdon Village, the "Chevy" of Chicago's new-home market
Take a look at the condos at DeGrazia Development Co.'s Elsdon Village, which we posted on not long ago. The project comprises 280 units - condos, t [...]
Sum bigger than parts at architect David Hovey's Winnetka house
In a feature in Architectural Digest Magazine, local architect David Hovey, known for strikingly modern high-rises in Evanston as well as for the ne [...]
Elliott planning 20 single-families in Irving Park
Elliott Homebuilders, Inc. has started sales for a new batch of single-family homes in the Irving Park neighborhood. Avondale Estates comprises 20 t [...]
Sales update: 4 left at Bradley Place
Four homes remain for sale in the second phase of Centrum Properties' Bradley Place, according to Carrie McCormick, sales manager for the project. [...]
We like to watch: abundant light in Lincoln Park
This single-family home at 844 W Webster Ave is long on natural light.
Although the facade is traditional, the three-story house is all new, accord [...]
A dozen fewer units at Park Place Homes
Park Place Homes now comprises 188 single-family homes, townhomes and condos - down from the 200 residences originally planned, according to Katheri [...]
A peek inside Ivy Hall at University Village
I'd want to use my "indoor voice" in this understated model home at at Ivy Hall, the latest phase in the massive University Village development. In [...]
With a little help from Frank in Norwood Park
This new single-family home at 5724 N Newcastle Ave is in Old Norwood Park, although it might fit in a little better in Oak Park.
The Frank Lloyd W [...]
Build a $5 mil single-family in the Gold Coast
Plans and permits are in place for a buyer with some serious scratch to build this 6,400-square-foot single-family home at 22 E Elm St in the Gold Co [...]
We like to watch: 3753 N Tripp Ave
There's plenty of room to spread out in this single-family home at 3753 N Tripp Ave in Old Irving Park.
The six-bedroom, 4.5-bath house seems to ha [...]
Elsdon Village to bring 280 homes to 10 acres near Midway
We posted recently on the ubiquity of single-family homes selling for more than a million in Chicago. Here's a horse of a different color: Elsdon Vill [...]
Construction update: The Village Homes
The framing is up on the final units at The Residences of Old Irving Park - The Village Homes, a development of 47 single-family homes and townhouse [...]
Living large at 1206 W Wellington Ave in Lake View
This new single-family home at 1206 W Wellington Ave is on a 37.5-foot-wide lot - and that's not its only jumbo-sized feature.
Your family and frie [...]
$1-million home planned for Winnemac Avenue in Uptown
We knew home prices were trending upward in Uptown, but we had a moment of sticker shock when we saw that a pair of new single-family homes planned [...]
7 lots remain at Bridgeport Village
When we visited Bridgeport Village last summer, we found more green -- the literal kind, not the bamboo-floors-and-LED-lights kind -- than we've see [...]
A tale of two graystones on North Lakewood
They just don't make 'em like that anymore - except they sorta did at 3733 N Lakewood Ave (pictured left above). At a quick glance this single-fami [...]