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Touring South Shore: Life on the lakefront
Even with the economic hurdles South Shore will have to clear in the coming years, there's still a lot to envy about the neighborhood, including its [...]
A decade of national and local home values
Now that the Standard & Poor's site is back up, I've been able to pull some numbers from the latest Case-Shiller report. Using Google Docs, I put to [...]
Case-Shiller Tuesday: Chicago home values drop 7 percent year-over-year
The Standard & Poor's Web site simply won't load for me today, so all I can tell you about the December '09 Case-Shiller Home Price Indices is what I' [...]
Sales update: 450 sold at 235 Van Buren
CMK Companies sold nine condos at 235 Van Buren last month, bringing the number of sold units up to 450 and closed units to 275, according to sales [...]
Aqua is tops among the '09 class
Emporis' editors have named Aqua the best skyscraper of 2009, according to the Tribune's Blair Kamin.
The Jeanne Gang-designed, Magellan-built towe [...]
The fall of a Cabrini-Green tower
Kudos to Megan Cottrell for sharing this video with her readers. Her friends watched the slow demolition of a Cabrini-Green tower at 660 W Division St [...]
Reviewing Astoria Tower's deals for 2010
The new year brought new prices and new financing options to Astoria Tower, 8 E 9th St in the South Loop. Last month I asked sales manager Jim Psyho [...]
Touring South Shore: A neighborhood native's first trip to the old Country Club
If you don't know much about South Shore's history, you might be surprised to learn that a neighborhood native like Jeff Heilbrunn had never been in [...]
Quote of the day: Let the credits expire
From The Wall Street Journal:
“It’s worn out its benefit. If you extend it again, it isn’t going to do much, and what you’re doing is providing a tax [...]
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 [...]
Chicagoans see the light in Lockport
Our work for the Chicago Tribune's Spring Festival of Homes has recently taken me to some of Chicago's far-flung suburbs.
Earlier this week I was i [...]
Yo in review: February 14 – 20
Can't keep up with YoChicago throughout the week? Here are some stories you may have missed:
Is Centrum Properties' Lakeview Collection facing for [...]
Shark bites: Single-family savings of 25% in Bucktown and Lake View
Matt Garrison's CondoShark.com tracks more than discounts on downtown condos -- it also keeps tabs on the city's single-family home market. If you kno [...]
Fresh focus: Land an Uptown rehab with a 2.99% mortgage and no PMI
Paulina Point, located at the corner of Paulina Street and Sunnyside Avenue in Uptown, is one of many properties marketed by Fresh Horizon Realty that [...]
50 buyers sign contracts at 565 Quincy
Since cutting prices by 15 to 30 percent four months ago, Belgravia Group has sold 50 new homes at 565 Quincy. Those sales represent 40 percent of all [...]
Rentals proposed for Hyde Park's Shoreland Hotel
The historic Shoreland Hotel at 5454 S South Shore Dr in Hyde Park could find new life as a 350-unit apartment building, according to the Sun-Times.
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Touring South Shore, Part 1: History and the Highlands
Our link to RedEye's "next hot 'hood" article generated a lot of comments, some of which touched on the present and future of the South Shore on the [...]
From the vault: Rezko's residence and the CAGE of East Wilmette
Now that Tony Rezko's East Wilmette home is on the market, it's time to revisit this video from the YoNorthShore archive: a drive down Chestnut Aven [...]
What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the west, where Juliet balconies now hang!
This three-man crew was working its way down Flair Tower this morning, cleaning every window and s [...]
Condo rentals reach record highs in 2009
From Appraisal Research Counselors:
The number of condo units listed for rent at the end of each quarter has risen from roughly 300-600 in 2005-06 to [...]