North Shore rental pick; kid not included
The number of MLS-listed rentals in Chicago's North Shore suburbs increased by 9% during the past week, to 274 homes and condos. Forty new listing [...]
Wilmette open house pick – a 4-bedroom under $500K
There are currently only four 4-bedroom homes listed for sale for less than $500,000 east of Skokie Rd in Wilmette. Two of them have been on the m [...]
Wilmette resident cries fowl over chicken ban
If a chicken-friendly environment is a checklist item for your move to the North Shore you may have to rule out the Village of Wilmette. According [...]
A Colorado-style home in Wilmette’s Indian Hill Estates
The recently-listed 6-bedroom home at 1045 Romona Rd sits on a secluded half-acre lot with an in-ground pool and hot tub.
The site is larger t [...]
A Wilmette rental pick and a North Shore update
The MLS-listed rental inventory of homes and condos ticked up slightly over the past week, from a 13-month low of 230 last week to 236 this week. [...]
Wilmette’s pain may be your gain
Whether there's a need for more affordable housing has been the hot topic in Winnetka recently while neighboring Wilmette ponders what to do with [...]
Our Wilmette open house pick was quickly picked
Our Wilmette open house pick went under contract prior to today's scheduled open house. Anyone arriving at the home today would have seen the abov [...]
Sunday open house pick – $350K Wilmette starter home
Our open house pick this weekend is a 3-bedroom, 2 ½ bath 50s-vintage split-level ranch at 527 Romona Rd in West Wilmette. It's a relatively affor [...]
In Wilmette’s Kenilworth Gardens, the fourth bedroom costs $200K
Over at North Shore Views Anne West lists the homes for sale in Wilmette's Kenilworth Gardens neighborhood, an area that's long had a strong appea [...]
East Wilmette short sale below 1999 price
A 5-bedroom, 3 ½ bath home at 906 Greenleaf Ave in Wilmette just came on the market as a short sale, at $550,000. The home sold for $615,000 in Ju [...]
An ‘impeccable restoration’ in Wilmette, priced at $2.25M
This 6,000 square-foot single-family home at 744 Sheridan Rd in Wilmette was the Wall Street Journal's House of the Day on Monday. In a 10-photo s [...]
A major bargain on a prime Wilmette lot
There’s nothing extraordinary about the to-be-built 4-bedroom, 4 ½ bath home at $1,295,000 on a 50 x 150 lot at 1327 Washington Ave in Wilmette. A [...]
Long-listed West Wilmette homes try the rental approach
Several weeks ago Joe Zekas wrote about a home at 2411 Thornwood Ave in West Wilmette that's been on the market for nearly five years.
The home [...]
In East Wilmette, a 10-year old traditional home
Five years ago homes like the one in this video easily sold for $1.8M and above in East Wilmette.
Today, the owner-agent has priced this home a [...]
The slowest-selling new home in Wilmette
Today’s “new listings” include 2411 Thornwood Ave in Wilmette, a 5-bedroom, 5 ½ bath, 4,300 square foot home. It’s around the corner from the soug [...]
3 of top 10 North Shore home sales found in Wilmette
North Shore Views just reported the 10 highest-priced sales on the North Shore during 2010. Three of them, surprisingly, were in Wilmette.
Not [...]
Condo open house event on the lake in Wilmette
Seven of the 74 units at 1420 Sheridan in Wilmette are currently on the market, and six of them will be open for viewing from noon to 2 on Sunday, [...]
Wilmette for less than a Parker
A Parker is a unit of currency whose value is equal to the annual cost of sending a single child to Francis Parker School in Lincoln Park. The val [...]
A year later, $200K less in Wilmette
The 5-bedroom, 4 ½ bath, 2-car garage home on a corner lot at 1418 Elmwood Ave in Wilmette had only been on the market for 5 days when I visited a [...]
North Shore new construction – a new rule of thirds?
During most of 2006 I was actively tracking the status of every new construction home on Chicago’s North Shore.
In May of 2006 developer Cypre [...]