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A glorious morning in Lincoln Park
The temperature was in the high 60s and the sky was almost cloudless at 8:30 this morning when I arrived at Lincoln Park's Diversey Harbor to shoo [...]
Evanston’s most beautiful lakefront home
When I saw listing copy describing 581 Ingleside in Evanston as the "most beautiful lakefront home" I was skeptical. So, I called the listing age [...]
High-rise living in Lincoln Park
The high-rises fronting Chicago's Lincoln Park offer some of the most attractive living options anywhere in the US. The park and its neighborhood [...]
A contemporary home in a convenient Oak Brook locale
Home styles and people's preferences for them vary widely throughout the Chicago area. In some suburbs traditional homes are the most prized and i [...]
Check out Curbed Chicago’s Outdoor Week
It's "Outdoor Week" at Curbed, so head to a park, fire up your iPad and enjoy the great outdoors in Chicago.
Curbed has an informative post on [...]
Superlatives watch – absolute excellence in Hinsdale
Real estate agents have always been swift to hurl superlatives at prospective buyers, and it seems the depressed market is accelerating the trend. [...]
Silver Tower raising prices?
Crain's is reporting than an investor group has bought the loans on Silver Tower and will take title to the property this fall.
A spokesman for [...]
Check out Chicago Magazine’s Real Estate Look Book
Chicago Magazine's Real Estate Look Book is a multi-media advertising program for luxury homes that combines print, online, e-mail and social medi [...]
Tyson Chandler’s Northfield home sells for less than half his cost
Leopard-patterned cloth was all the rage in the 60s. Back then it seemed every other sofa was upholstered in it or at least sported several leopar [...]
Is this the best Lincoln Park locale?
After seeing many "new" listings that have actually been on and off the market for years, it's refreshing to see one that's actually new. What's n [...]
Recalling the mythical Irish buyers
Stories like this one, reporting on the National Association of Realtors 2011 Profile of International Home Buying Activity (pdf), bring to mind t [...]
The low money down deals are still here
Hush, all you naysayers who think that low down payment deals helped precipitate the current mess in the housing markets. The Illinois Housing Dev [...]
Grand Bend – in a close-in suburb with an urban quality
Evanston is a lot of different things to different people, which is why the community is so diverse, what with the largest population of any town [...]
The biggest apartment search mistakes – Number 5, making assumptions
The biggest mistake apartment searchers make is failing to focus on a small number of ideal and affordable neighborhoods. The second biggest mista [...]
South Chicago, one of YoChicago’s hottest neighborhoods of 2006
We're taking a brief look at the state of each of the eight neighborhoods we spotlighted as Chicago's hottest back in June of 2006. We've already [...]
Geneva’s Mill Creek: Ready for the new school year
Time’s short for getting the family into a new school system for the fall and Mill Creek in Geneva has the perfect combination of opportunities.
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Humboldt Park, real estate sites and the real world
Real estate brokerage sites typically feature upbeat overviews of Chicago's neighborhoods. The articles often appear to have been authored on a lo [...]
How not to attract a cute, cuddly roommate
Place the following roommate ad on Craigslist:
$200 Any lonely single cute girl:)
Just looking for a nice sweet and cute girl that is in help of a [...]
Fifty-eight years in a Lake Shore Drive high-rise
I stopped for a brief visit at Planned Property's resident appreciation party – the "luau on the lake."
The highlight of my visit was meeting L [...]
MLS-listed downtown rental inventory hits another low
Back in November of 2009, when we began tracking MLS-listed homes and condos for rent in 14 downtown ZIP codes there were 1,927 units available. A [...]