Yo’s Believe It or Not: The Abbott House fence
Last month Curbed reported that the landmark Abbott House at 4605 N Hermitage Ave in Uptown had closed for $1.6 million. We recently picked up a b [...]
Rental deal of the day: An updated 2/1 in West Rogers Park, priced at $1,050
Today's rental deal of the day from Chicago Rentals Direct is one of their newest listings: an updated two-bedroom / one-bath at 6104 N Rockwell St in [...]
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Rogers Park gets a LEED Silver building
Cleaning out the Yo inbox is like digging in between sofa cushions -- all sorts of goodies can fall beneath the cracks. Take, for example, the announc [...]
What do you love about Andersonville?
A hat tip to The Welles Park Bulldog for calling our attention to this slickly-produced video about Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood – no rela [...]
Renaissance Lofts slapped with foreclosure suit
Last month we brought you this video interview with David Derk, who is suing the Kopley Group for not honoring a buyback guarantee at Renaissance [...]
Stuff that sells: Landmark Abbott House sells for $1.6M
Curbed's Mark Boyer reports on the sale of the landmark Dr. Wallace C. Abbott House, a 120-year-old Queen Anne at 4605 N Hermitage Ave in Uptown. [...]
From $86K to $289K in 16 months in Rogers Park
Rogers Park isn't a big market for single-family homes. In the past 12 months, 27 single-families inside the community area have sold, at prices rangi [...]
A Kopley Group buyer’s story
Almost two years ago to the day, I added the following comment to a post on the Lofts at 1800, a development of the Kopley Group: There’s something ab [...]
Edgewater, Rogers Park see condo prices fall in 4th quarter
2010 was not kind to condominiums on Chicago's Far North Side: Our two northernmost neighborhoods, Rogers Park and Edgewater, both saw condo price [...]
Renaissance Lofts buyers fight back
Thanks to Curbed for highlighting a new article by Dennis Rodkin about Renaissance Lofts in Rogers Park, where buyers have filed suit against the Kopl [...]
Terror towers: Selling short at 6030 North Sheridan
We last looked at 6030 North Sheridan in June 2006, when Rick Levin & Associates was preparing a developer closeout auction at the 292-unit buildi [...]
Seeking diversity? Skip Rogers Park and head for Skokie
Rogers Parkers lean heavily on the diversity meme when they describe their community to outsiders. At RogersPark.com, for example, the About pag [...]
Rainbo Village’s unlucky charms
Sellers at Rainbo Village aren't looking for pots of gold. The only prize at the end of their Rainbo experience will be the relief of moving on.
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More than half of Edgewater’s condos closing below $100K
Sixteen of the 26 condo closings recorded in Edgewater since the turn of the new year have been below $100,000. These five-figure homes have ranged fr [...]
Do winter pains equal buyer gains in Uptown?
The forecast for unit #1 at 4913 N Ashland Ave in Uptown was bleak, even before we entered the deep freeze of winter.
The 3,500 square-foot, five-b [...]
Sex offenders opt for Uptown, Edgewater, Rogers Park
There are lots of sites where you can check whether there are any registered sex offenders in your neighborhood. The State Sex Offender Registry has t [...]
Rojas reviews ‘a ridiculous foreclosure deal’ in Lincoln Square
Realtor Eric Rojas and a client recently toured a bank-owned two-bedroom / one-bath condo in Lincoln Square whose price had just dropped to $89,00 [...]
Multi-unit buildings are ‘back in the game’
Multi-units are back in the game and many long time owners have the ability to sell for market or below prices. Although we like the affordability of [...]
New Chinatown becoming more Chinese
The "New Chinatown" appellation never sat right with me -- yes, the area around Argyle Street in Uptown is a distinctly Asian corridor, but many [...]
Towers of terror: Sellers take their lumps at Granville Beach in Edgewater
This morning Joe Zekas, writing at Homeward Bound - West Suburbs, likened price cuts at Oak Brook's Tower Condominiums to the "uncontrollable plum [...]