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Shark bites: 43 percent off a River City short sale
The CondoShark normally checks in on Fridays, but we gave him some time off for the New Year. He's back to the grind today and has already found a t [...]
Sales update: New marketing team but same old prices at Bucktown Station
During my walk home from the Western Blue Line station last Thursday, I noticed a new @properties sign inside one of the retail-level windows at Buc [...]
Investors' evolving objectives in Bucktown
Buyers of multi-unit buildings in Bucktown have "dropped out of the game" as developers and have "put on their investment hats," says Koenig & Strey [...]
Quote: Booby-trapping West Haven
“We put scattered-site public housing in the neighborhood to make it distasteful for really, really higher income. If I’ve got a half-million dollar h [...]
A 2-bedroom in Humboldt Park for under $2,000
As recently as 3 years ago condos at 3550 W. Franklin Blvd sold well above $200K. A 2-bedroom in the building is currently available for $1,900. If yo [...]
Bucktown, from hookers and hipsters to family haven
Koenig & Strey's Greg Viti is a third-generation Realtor. I first met him barely a year into his 23-year career in real estate.
I recently sat down [...]
Yo in review: Dec. 27 – Jan. 2
Did your holiday hangover keep you off the computer? If you weren't reading Yo this week, here's some of what you missed:
Where have all the Illini [...]
More video faves from 2009
Here are three more of our most-viewed videos from 2009:
A tour of Parkside of Old Town and Cabrini-Green
Trump Tower, from the Chicago Riverwalk
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Yo's year: Top videos from YouTube
Here are a few of the most-viewed videos added to the YoChicago YouTube channel over the past year.
A city within a city: Lakeshore East from the Chi [...]
Jameson advertising rentals at Trio
No surprise here -- Crain's reported a while back that RDM Development was pursuing a rental option for the Trio tower at 670 W Wayman St. I caught [...]
All quiet at Lexington Park Condominiums
Its Web site is down, its listings have disappeared, and not a single tower unit has closed. Not the best way for Chieftain Group's Lexington Park C [...]
EnV gets a better Web site, too
Not to be left out of the mix, The Lynd Company has assembled a lot of new information for EnV, 161 W Kinzie St, in advance of the tower's opening i [...]
Foreclosure comes to the EcoLogic Lofts
Senco Properties has defaulted on almost $7 million in loans for the 94-unit EcoLogic Lofts in Bucktown, leaving the turbine-topped plan blowing in [...]
2010: the year of the renter?
More than 2,200 new apartments are going to hit the downtown market in 2010, right at a time when occupancy is down, rental rates are down, and condo [...]
Yo's year: Wong's Wilson Yard surprise
We could hear Uptowners hyperventilating from all the way down here in River North after we posted this juicy scoop on April 1. Believe it or not, our [...]
South Loop status: Some homes close at Museum Park Place South, but most linger
I guess Museum Park Place South isn't so quiet after all. Since October, 61 condos have closed at the tower, located at 1901 S Calumet Ave in the So [...]
Instant reax: What happens after "flat"?
It’s up and down, a rollercoaster. We’ve seen a big decline since 2006. Then we saw a recovery starting in April, and now it’s flattened out, and it’s [...]
Quote of the day: South Side speculation
"I think there's probably going to be a lot of speculation going on in some of these lower income neighborhoods where the property values declined to [...]
Case-Shiller Tuesday: Chicago home values up quarter-on-quarter, down month-to-month
It's the last Tuesday of December, which means it's time to check in with S&P's Case-Shiller Indices to see how home values fared in October.
Chi [...]
The 2010 market: sunny or stagnant?
If the average rate of a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rises to 6 percent by the end of 2010, how will the market react? The National Assoc [...]