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Yo in review: April 3 – 10
Can't keep up with YoChicago throughout the week? Here are some stories you may have missed:
1000 West Washington Lofts: An introduction and a 4,0 [...]
990 Lake Shore Drive – the view from the roof
It was a brilliantly clear morning as Francesca Rose and I headed for the roof at 990 Lake Shore Drive, one of Streeterville's oft-overlooked condos [...]
Rojas on 1Q 2010 sales: buyers "gobble up" condos in Lincoln Park, Lake View
Rubloff agent Eric Rojas recently reviewed first-quarter sales in Lincoln Park and Lake View and found that activity is up significantly in both nei [...]
Get a return on investment with top-of-the-line siding from APEX Exteriors
For the past five years, Remodeling Magazine's Cost vs. Value Reports have named fiber cement siding replacement the top return on investment in home [...]
Where have all the households gone?
Current economic forecasts, including those from the Mortgage Bankers Association, suggest that unemployment is expected to fall very slowly over the [...]
April auctions: Getting in a bid before the tax credit deadline
Buyers looking to beat the April 30 home buyer tax credit deadline have a few home auction options to consider over the next three weeks. They include [...]
1600 North Claremont: A Bucktown BlockWalk
Like Joe, I picked one of the streets I know best for my first BlockWalk: the 1600 block of North Claremont Avenue, near the Wicker Park / Bucktown [...]
A flexible floor plan at Misty Ridge in Romeoville
Joe Zekas recently toured the Misty Ridge community in Romeoville with Jon Krueger of Beechen & Dill and came away sounding impressed with the desig [...]
Putting Chess Lofts back in play
Weichert, Realtors - Frankel & Giles appears to have launched a new marketing campaign for Chess Lofts, the adapted Chess Records studio and warehou [...]
Just how affordable is affordable housing?
The city and developer Peter Holsten are set to build the next phase of Parkside of Old Town -- a mid-rise with 39 CHA homes, 53 homes for low-inco [...]
The West Loop's 1000 West Washington lofts – an introduction after the fact
All right, we jumped the gun a little by showing off one of 1000 West Washington's showcase homes -- a 4,000 square-foot triplex loft -- before givi [...]
Crain's on "the demise of Armitage Avenue"
Today's video from Crain's Chicago Business focuses on how Armitage Avenue between Halsted Street and Racine Avenue, once "the best boutque, cute re [...]
Sales update: Four to go at Union Row
Belgravia Group is now down to just four unsold townhomes at Union Row in East Pilsen, according to the development's newly updated Web site.
One o [...]
Newly converted three-bedrooms now start in the $250s at 3550 Lyndale
Five of the seven newly converted homes for sale at 3550 Lyndale in Logan Square are 1,370 square-foot three-bedroom / two-baths. When we first report [...]
Shark bites: Garrison makes the sale in Obama's neighborhood
You don't see a lot of Chicago home sales make national headlines, but all sorts of news outlets are carrying stories this morning about the sale of [...]
Staging the master bedroom
Last November, our Streeterville expert Francesca Rose went on camera with Kim Baker and Karen Fike of Chicago Home Staging at ParkView condo to tal [...]
Case-Shiller Tuesday, take 2: Chicago home values dip again
Standard & Poor's simply couldn't take the strain of a million real estate junkies flooding its Web site last Tuesday. We were all searching for t [...]
Looking out on the Loop from 215 West
We understood going in that the lower and middle floors of the new high-rise at 215 W Washington St wouldn't offer us the best views of Chicago -- t [...]
The two-bedroom / two-bath tango: five new downtown condos
Ready for a little floor plan porn this morning?
Here are five new two-bedroom / two-bath condos still for sale at some of downtown Chicago's newer h [...]
BlockWalks, 2300 North Cleveland in Lincoln Park
With this video we're launching a new feature: BlockWalks, a simple video tour of a single Chicago or suburban block.
For many Chicagoans the block [...]