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New prices equal new sales at Trio
The closeout prices in place at the Loft Condominiums at Trio, 650 - 660 W Wayman St in the Fulton River District, have started to attract new buy [...]
Loft living: 3,000 SF, three private decks, and a ‘Mediterranean’ bath in Fulton Market
With a view like that, you'd never guess you were in Fulton Market.
Unit #503 at the Fulton Market Lofts, 1118 W Fulton Market St, came on the [...]
Irish eyes smile on Chicago
Is Chicago about to see a new wave of Irish moving into the city? According to Google Insights for Search, more searches for "Chicago apartments" [...]
Riding the Red Line: Belmont
The Red Line's stop in Lake View (for riders traveling out from downtown, at least) is at Belmont, a station that bears a strong resemblance to th [...]
Upgraded apartments in a Lakeview East courtyard
Many of Chicago's vintage courtyards have great bones -- and sagging skin. They're sorely in need of a modern update.
The beautiful vintage cou [...]
Five benefits of building a home with J. Lawrence and Smykal Homes
With plenty of resales and foreclosed homes still on the market, it can be easy to forget that building a new-construction home in Chicago from th [...]
How many rental service owners have criminal records?
That question occurred to me after coming across two of them within the past week.
I found the first while researching a rental service whose "bedb [...]
North Shore rental market tightens further
We've been tracking the MLS-listed inventory of homes and condos offered for rent in Chicago's North Shore communities every week for the last 51 [...]
Rental deal of the day: A 1 BR two blocks from Southport, available for $950
Today's rental deal of the day from Chicago Rentals Direct is a 750 square-foot one-bedroom / one-bath with a study and a large rear deck, located jus [...]
The high end of condo rentals in Lake View
Single-family homes in Lake View can fetch rents as high as $10,000. For condos, the highest price point at the moment is $6,900, which will ren [...]
Riding the Red Line: Fullerton
Travel north on the Red Line from 35th Street and you'll end spend a lot of time underground. All of downtown's Red Line stations are underground, [...]
The plusses of a four-plus-one
The Chicago four-plus-one takes its name from the four residential floors above a single floor that houses a lobby and parking underneath the buil [...]
The fat lady sings for Opera Lofts’ developers
"What are they going to get from me? I have nothing. Even my little dog is sick."
- Contractor Adolfo Castellanos, responding to news that he a [...]
Walk Wright into eight Oak Park homes next month
Even if you aren't in the market for one of the five Frank Lloyd Wright-designed homes currently for sale in the suburbs, you still might be interes [...]
Tony Grunsfeld, North Shore modernist architect
News of the death last Friday of Ernest A. Grunsfeld III, better known as Tony Grunsfeld, was relayed by the Tribune's Blair Kamin.
Many of Gru [...]
Lake View apartments west of Halsted, listed and mapped
View Lake View apartments, West of Halsted St in a larger map
Our map of Lake View apartments west of Halsted St has just been published, along wit [...]
Riding the Red Line: North / Clybourn
The last subway station a northbound rider on the Red Line will encounter is the newly renovated North / Clybourn stop at the border of Lincoln Pa [...]
The selection for swimmers in the South Loop
At a recent panel discussion about the rental market, Greg Mutz of AMLI Residential Partners said he expected Chicago's next round of apartment buildi [...]
A 3,000 square-foot oddity in Oriole Park, priced at $539K
This squat stone turret of a home doesn't look like most of its Norwood Park neighbors, or anything other single-families that went on the market [...]
Case-Shiller Tuesday: Chicago home values at summer 2001 levels
Chicago home values in February dipped to levels not seen since the summer of 2001, according to today's Case-Shiller Home Price Indices release from [...]