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Eric and Joe's drive through North Center
After touring a three-story condo at 4152 N Lincoln Ave last week, Prudential Rubloff's Eric Rojas took Joe Zekas on a drive around North Center and [...]
The four sides of Park Monroe
How much does a view matter at Park Monroe (the big gray box near the center of the pic at right)? Quite a bit, especially when it comes to pricing.
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Eco18 site in South Loop listed for $5.5M
Yesterday evening a tipster pointed me toward Jameson's listing for a 53,635 square-foot vacant lot at the southwest corner of 18th Street and Wabas [...]
Quote of the day: No incentive to buy
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We're not seeing the big comeback in the homes that are above $2 million or [...]
Making way for Parc Huron's park
The small concrete building at 662 N Hudson Ave in River North (the northwest corner of Erie and Hudson) is finally coming down, presumably to make [...]
Touring a $425,000 two-bedroom in a prime Lake View location with Eric Rojas
Last week Joe Z. met Prudential Rubloff's Eric Rojas at 3231 N Clifton Ave in Lake View, not far from where our company's was based for seven years. [...]
Businessweek: Chicago home prices to rise 16 percent by 2014
Bloomberg Businessweek surveyed a slew of market studies and determined that Chicago prices will hit bottom in early 2011 and then rise by as much as [...]
A seven-year-old single-family priced like a worker's cottage in Wicker Park
The median price for a four-bedroom single-family home in Wicker Park is just under $1.15 million. That amount, and slightly less, will get you a newe [...]
The no-percent reduction: Three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, and five dollars off at Riverbend
Hey there, industrious Dream Town Realtor with the "dedication, knowledge, and willingness to go the extra mile" for clients -- is that 3,700 square [...]
River City, a community for children
River City's seen better days. The building's teeming with foreclosures and short sales -- the median price of a condo right now is $125,000, with p [...]
Grand Bend condos get FHA approval
The price cuts that accompanied the relaunch of Grand Bend at Green Bay in Evanston earlier this year opened the development's new-construction condos [...]
Taking an axe to Lincoln Park prices: new reductions on one- to four-bedroom homes
Here are examples of one-, two-, three-, and four-bedroom homes in Lincoln Park that have recently seen significant* price reductions in the past w [...]
Neighborhood trivia: Chicago's oval road
Test your knowledge of Chicago's 'hoods with this quick question:
Name the Chicago street that forms an oval, and the neighborhood it's in.
Think yo [...]
Touring a new home priced under $800K in West Bucktown
Two posts from last week highlighted the healthy sales activity going on in Bucktown and the parts of southeast Logan Square and northeast Humboldt [...]
The annals of inconsequential price cuts: more examples of stupid Realtor tricks
This weekend Joe Z. pointed out the pettiness of minuscule price cuts, which have no purpose except to bump homes up to the top of a search for newly [...]
Limited selection of discounted condos and townhomes remain at Lake Park Crescent
Buyers have taken advantage of reductions of up to 40 percent on Lake Park Crescent's new-construction condos and townhomes, but select units includ [...]
Woodstock: How eight lakeside locations fared in first-half foreclosure filings
A couple weeks ago, the Woodstock Institute released foreclosure numbers for the first six months of 2010 (PDF), broken down by community area. Listed [...]
Is Uptown going down?
Uptown Update (UU) has been one of my favorite neighborhood blogs since its launch. It offered a fresh, generally upbeat look at people and places [...]
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 les [...]
Stupid Realtor tricks, price reduction edition
A savvy real estate broker I know once told me that she didn't consider a price reduction worthy of the name unless it was at least 10 percent.
I jus [...]