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Deal of the day: Discounts upon discounts on Edgebrook Glen and Mayfair Crossing homes
CA Development is promoting a...wait for it..."a-MAY-zing Savings Sale" this month in which all nine existing single-families at Edgebrook Glen in F [...]
Today's news: $250,000 off a Columbia Place townhome in Lake View
CondoShark has the week off, but a home like this would surely make its Lake View list. Today's new listing is 2849 N Hermitage Ave #24, a Columbia Pl [...]
Overheard: You'd be crazy to stay
The stimulus simply wasn't as stimulating this time around. I don't think there were that many more buyers out and about just because of an $8,000 tax [...]
From the field: They loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly (Chicago, that is)
A Realtor who keeps an eye on these kinds of things mentioned to me yesterday that he saw "a surprising amount" of activity in the Far South neighbo [...]
Today's news: Buy or rent a corner condo with lake views at 1400 Museum Park
Today's new listing is located inside a relatively new high-rise: The Enterprise Companies' 1400 Museum Park, at the corner of 14th Street and Mich [...]
First deliveries on EnV's horizon
The first 12 residential floors of EnV in River North will open to tenants the middle of next month, according to the tower's leasing staff.
EnV's se [...]
From the field: "A thousand bucks is a thousand bucks"
Between agents, the water-cooler talk is kind of dead. Showings seem to be dwindling, which isn't a good sign going into June and July. Most of my buy [...]
Homes with history in the "new" Playboy building
Our Streeterville correspondent Francesca Rose checked in yesterday with a post topic in mind: the 84-year-old high-rise at 680 N Lake Shore Dr.
Thi [...]
Green spaces in the heart of Loft Land
Residents of the many loft buildings in the near West Loop don't lack for green space in their high-density surroundings. On the east side of Despla [...]
The lowest-priced home in Hinsdale in years
Joe Zekas recently asked Gaby Jury of ERA Jensen & Feinstein to take him around Hinsdale to see a range of homes at different price points. Their fi [...]
Today's news: A rehabbed single-family on three lots in Garfield Ridge
Are you OK with living under the flight paths of Midway? Because that's where you're going to find this rehabbed single-family home, which went on t [...]
Aqua's hotel back on track?
Aqua finally has an operator for its 15 hotel floors, says Blair Kamin. Magellan Development will make an announcement about the tenant in the next fe [...]
Howard Street: Wild, wooly, bleak, and bleary
From Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily, June 24, 2009:
A pioneering effort to develop a 221-unit apartment building on the scruffy border of Evanst [...]
Quote of the day: A recent history of rental concessions in Chicago's suburbs
Concessions were the marketing tool of choice to lure renters back to projects after the market began its decline in 2001. Our surveys indicated one f [...]
Today's news: $22 per square foot for a Humboldt Park REO
One of the homes to hit the MLS in the past 24 hours is this 1,422 square-foot, three-bedroom / 1.5-bath single-family home at 1631 N Springfield Ave [...]
Quote of the day: Wiping away 40 years of progress in Chatham
While to most, this is just another bank failure but if Shorebank fails it will wipe away over 40 years of history and progress of Chatham...
Al [...]
Chicago by numbers: A market report roundup
Seems like there's a new report every day on existing home sales, new home sales, new home starts, home prices, foreclosures, and the like. Here are a [...]
The merits of walking away
In January I posted an excerpt from a New York Times Magazine article titled "Walk away from your mortgage!", in which a University of Arizona law [...]
What it takes to buy a beachfront home on the North Shore
Maureen Mohling, one of our local correspondents for Winnetka, has a flair for finding the right word or phrase to summarize a complex topic. "Patie [...]
Grand Bend's "Casa Della Luce"
Now that you've seen inside one of the ready-to-deliver condos at Grand Bend at Green Bay, 1228 Emerson St in Evanston, follow Joe Zekas and Insight [...]