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A rare new construction Bucktown single-family under $1M
An MLS search for ground-up new construction single family homes in Bucktown turned up only one result today – the home that's the subject of this [...]
Incentives, value prices add to the appeal of West End’s location
The new homes at West End at Jackson Square are conveniently located near the Eisenhower Expressway, Medical District and United Center, just a fe [...]
The price goes down, the price goes up, Lake Forest home doesn’t sell
A Lake Forest home has undergone multiple price ups and downs in its nearly 3-year tenure in the MLS. We first began tracking it as new constructi [...]
New vs nearly new on Ravenswood
Today's e-mail update included a flurry of new construction offerings, including 3 listings at 4909 N Ravenswood Ave overlooking the Metra tracks [...]
Department of nuttily misleading info, RentJuice edition
According to a recent news release from RentJuice, the "average cost of renting a home in Chicago is $1,410. Rent for a 3-bedroom in Wrigleyville "is [...]
Revisiting the South Side resurgence
In the heady days of 2006 buyers were closing on units at the Courtyard on the Park, in the 5900 block of S King Dr, at prices ranging from the $1 [...]
If Frank Lloyd Wright wasn’t dead this home might kill him
According to the listing copy, the 7,000+ square foot ranch at 390 N East River Rd in Des Plaines is a "unique design that Frank Lloyd Wright woul [...]
Are owners bailing out of Winnetka’s Woodley Road?
The Woodley Road neighborhood has a Winnetka mailing address but is not in the Village of Winnetka – a fact with important consequences that's fre [...]
A New East Side apartment walk with Katie and Stephanie
Stephanie Konow and Katie Bommarito are former rental services agents who grew frustrated with that business and set out to connect Chicago tenant [...]
A high-rise home near the Gold Coast farmers market
Early Saturday morning I met Lori and Clark at the Division Street Farmers Market to see and chat about the scene that's a 30-second stroll from t [...]
How much is that parking space really worth?
I've sat in a number of new home sales offices listening to agents explain unit pricing to prospective buyers. Without missing a beat the agent will s [...]
70 percent of homebuyers more likely to purchase a green home in a down market*
Buyer interest in green home features in new construction homes has increased in recent years. Sure it’s the right thing to do and people are indeed [...]
Downtown MLS-listed rentals remain at low levels
The number (756) of homes and condos listed for rent in the MLS in the 14 downtown ZIP codes that we track barely budged over the last week, des [...]
Walking downtown Evanston at Sherman Ave
Last summer YoChicago took a tour of downtown Evanston with Andy Kiener of Grand Bend at Green Bay condominiums.
Close to the lake, the univers [...]
Was Was, Then, Final a simple oversight?
This is a partial screen cap of an e-mail just received from a major brokerage firm. Am I the only one who saw a familiar acronym embedded in it? [...]
Do murals denote a depressed community?
I have a bias about murals: I associate their creation with communities that have declined and are likely to remain in a state of decline. I s [...]
McCaffery wins Children’s Memorial site in Lincoln Park
Crain's and the Sun-Times are both reporting that McCaffery Interests Inc. has been selected as the winning bidder for the redevelopment of the Childr [...]
Continuing our tour of Chatham
The Chicago Sun-Times recently ran a high-profile series of articles about the changes in Chatham, a neighborhood that has long been considered th [...]
The best value at The Carlyle
Everything about The Carlyle is out of the ordinary, beginning with its Gold Coast location overlooking Oak Street Beach.
The Carlyle's reside [...]
Transportation access key for Loop condos
It’s hard to miss all the signage for 235 Van Buren condos at the LaSalle / Van Buren ‘L’ station near the southwest corner of the original ‘Loop’ [...]