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A Michigan Avenue rental — but few Michigan Avenue views — for $3.18 a square foot
The average price of a downtown Chicago apartment in 2Q 2010 hovered around $2.37 per square foot for Class A apartments and $2.03 for Class B apartme [...]
Kamin: More Chicago, less Virginia for South Works, please
Trib columnist Blair Kamin digs the broad strokes of the South Works redevelopment plan but hopes developer McCaffrey Interests and architect Antuno [...]
Opening up the floor plan in a Bridgeport townhome
The exteriors of Lexington Homes' townhomes haven't varied as much in recent years as have the interiors. The floor plans and detailing are always w [...]
Doug Glanville lists Bucktown home for $78,000 off 2006 purchase price
Does Doug Glanville count as a celebrity? His best seasons were in Philly, but he spent some time wearing Cubbie Blue, too, including a second-half [...]
Busy, busy buildings: where the sales are
Blockshopper keeps a running tab on sales across the city, and organizes that data into a number of sortable lists and building-specific pages. Accord [...]
Admiring the four-plus-one
A Chicago Sojourn dedicated a post this week to "the painted concrete artistry" of four-plus-one entryways in Edgewater, many of which were designe [...]
Hiding problems in condo common areas
Continuing some thoughts from an earlier part of our conversation, home inspector Tom Corbett talks briefly on a trend in the real estate community [...]
There's never been a better time to buy
It's been a while since I've heard Realtors say that; then again, they haven't been a very talkative bunch lately. The Wall Street Journal picked up t [...]
WSJ: DeNovi 26th among national Realtors in transaction sides
Congrats to our friend and client Frank DeNovi, who ranked 26th in the Wall Street Journal's 2010 list of the nation's top 400 real estate professiona [...]
A pristine three-bedroom duplex just off Division Street, for under $370,000
Eric Rojas and I weren't able to meet up for our first round of Noble Square and Wicker Park videos until Monday, and we'll probably spread our cove [...]
A view of Chicago from SoNo's 23rd floor
You got a peek of Kim Hamilton's view of Chicago during our first segment from her SoNo condo. The last video from my recent trip to SoNo comes from [...]
Touring a new single-family priced under $800K in West Bucktown
This new single-family home at 1706 N Rockwell St west of Bucktown features three to five bedrooms, 3.5 baths, a family room, a theater room, and a [...]
More than a common condo — it's Common's condo!
I was starting to wonder when we'd see another celebrity listing in the news.* For $2,500 a month, plus $150 per parking, you can live in a 1,248 squa [...]
1418 North Lake Shore goes smoke-free
If you want to light up, don't do it at 1418 North Lake Shore. Owners at the 28-unit Gold Coast high-rise recently banned cigarettes, cigars, pipes, a [...]
How real estate agents interfere with home inspectors
Tomacor's Tom Corbett has been a consistent advocate for his clients for decades -- often at the expense of his relationships with real estate agent [...]
Parc Huron makes good on park promise
It might have more concrete than lawn, it sits in shadow from early afternoon on, and I still don't know what it brings to the neighborhood that Eri [...]
The nearly news: 2,500 square feet in River West for $70,900 below '07 sale price
Tucked away amidst the lofts and concrete condos of "Bergerville" (that pocket of River North immediately south of Chicago Avenue and west of Halsted [...]
Stuff that sells: South Side single-family edition
The post title says it all -- listed below are the highest-priced (or in some cases, only) single-family home sales in 17 South Side neighborhoods f [...]
An REO specialist’s service area
The typical real estate agent services a fairly narrow, generally geographic niche market. That narrow focus doesn't work for REO specialists, who [...]
In other news – good reads from the 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 l [...]