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Restoring the Del Prado, a Hyde Park classic
The Del Prado, built in 1918, is one of a group of distinctive buildings that mark the gateway from Lake Shore Drive into Hyde Park in Chicago. Th [...]
Rental confusion of the day, domu edition
A duplex-up at 1623 W Barry Ave is listed in the MLS at $2,500 a month. Coldwell Banker's Jennifer Witt has the listing.
domu spotlighted the p [...]
YoChicago’s April stats
YoChicago reached 47,312 unique visitors during the month of April, and served up over 900,000 page views. Our visitor count was up 53% over last Apri [...]
Retail space fills up at Flair Tower
There's a lot of empty commercial real estate at the bottom of downtown's new rental high-rises (more on that later this week), but one building [...]
Curbed: Lakeshore East market nears completion
Remember that supermarket that Magellan Development started building at Lakeshore East last year? It's almost finished. Mark Boyer of Curbed stopp [...]
‘Exquisite’ Queen Anne in Old Town Triangle listed $455K below ’03 price
In November 2003, this vintage Queen Anne at 1935 N Lincoln Ave in the Old Town Triangle sold for $1.85 million. According to Zillow, the home was off [...]
Sign of the times: Ten East Delaware dumped in Bucktown
A little far from home, no? I found this A-frame sign for Ten East Delaware's Gold Coast sales center cozying up to a construction dumpster outsid [...]
Riding the Red Line: Argyle
Last Friday I made my way to the Argyle Red Line station, located in a part of Uptown known as the West Argyle Street Historic District, New China [...]
Three to go at Wabansia Row II in Bucktown
This weekend I noticed that @properties had amended the sign outside of the Wabansia Row II townhomes in Bucktown, changing "4 homes left" to "3 h [...]
Where to find three-bedroom apartments in the Loop, South Loop, and West Loop
It's easy to find a building with one- and two-bedroom apartments. If you're looking for three or more bedrooms, your options are much narrower. N [...]
Bids arriving for Silver Tower’s bulk sale
In March Crain's reported that Bank of America planned to sell Silver Tower's inventory in bulk, and could stand to pull in as $16 million as a result [...]
$1M off over seven months for a Howe Street home
A $300,000 price cut over the weekend has brought this 5,400 square-foot, five-bedroom / 4.5-bath home at 1924 N Howe St in Lincoln Park down to $ [...]
Quote of the day: Home values see biggest quarterly drop since ’08
"Home value declines are currently equal to those we experienced during the darkest days of the housing recession. With accelerating declines during t [...]
Townhome-sized single-floor homes in the West Loop
The high-style, design-intensive condos at CA23 in the West Loop are under new ownership, and prices have been slashed by 30% on the remaining 11 [...]
The $1.2M single-family home market is “smoking hot”
Superior 110, a luxury boutique condominium in River North is one of our firm's clients, and that's led me to spend a fair amount of time with Gre [...]
Weekend reads from the news feed
Not every story we add to our Chicago Real Estate News feed warrants "top story" status or a "quote of the day" post, but that doesn't make it any les [...]
A vintage surprise in Lakeview East
It's no secret that YoChicago loves real estate video, so we were pleased when Lakeview Associates sent along a link to their first video effort.
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The view from Hyde Park’s Del Prado
The sun made a brief appearance just as I was wrapping up a sponsored video tour of the Del Prado apartments, which are currently undergoing renov [...]
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Hundreds of homes participate in Mill Creek’s community garage sale
The annual three-day garage sale event at the sprawling Mill Creek development in Geneva kicked off yesterday with strong participation despite th [...]