No North Shore rental deal of the week
I've just finished scouring the new rental listings on the North Shore for bargains to bring to your attention. I couldn't find any.
Perhaps th [...]
Winnetka manse tries $9 million price increase
The last time we wrote about Le Grand Reve, 68 Locust Rd in Winnetka, the price had just been reduced from $28 million to $23 million.
It’s [...]
Where Winnetkans let it all hang out
If you love dirty laundry, you’ll definitely want to spend some time poking around the Winnetka Home Owners Association site. It’s a venue where t [...]
Rent vs own no-brainers in Winnetka’s Woodley Road
As we've noted a number of times before, the Woodley Road area has a Winnetka mailing address but is actually in an unincorporated area of Cook Co [...]
Are owners bailing out of Winnetka’s Woodley Road?
The Woodley Road neighborhood has a Winnetka mailing address but is not in the Village of Winnetka – a fact with important consequences that's fre [...]
Winnetka teardowns continue but builders hedge bets
In a recent post, I commented on the relative paucity of listings advertised as teardowns or vacant land on the North Shore.
The few available [...]
North Shore teardown and land listings scarce, but moving slowly
Six years ago builders seeking North Shore teardown lots were as common as flower-munching deer in Highland Park.
Today I can find only 4 home [...]
Notable new rental – furnished in Winnetka for $10K
If you want to sample how life's lived in Winnetka without making a long-term commitment, a furnished rental is an almost ideal option. But it's o [...]
From the foreclosure front – a farewell to Winnetka
The following note was posted to a Winnetka group. I've edited it to remove identifying information about the owner.
SADLY I am not still real [...]
The Home Alone house is a great place to call home
My day started with a visit to one of the most iconic homes in America -- the Home Alone house.
The home recently came on the market at a price [...]
‘Home Alone’ house available for $2.4M
It's a little after 9:30 a.m., which means that everyone's already mined the good quotations and bad puns for this story. I'll keep it simple -- t [...]
Winnetka mansion tops suburban sales in April
May is only four days old, but the North Shore may have already seen the top sale for the month: Curbed says a Lake Forest mansion has just closed [...]
North Shore rental market tightens further
We've been tracking the MLS-listed inventory of homes and condos offered for rent in Chicago's North Shore communities every week for the last 51 [...]
Description vs photo disconnect in $419K Winnetka 4-bedroom
If you haven't paid attention to Winnetka home prices for the last four years, the notion of a $419,000 4-bedroom, 2-bath home on a 50 x 187 lot i [...]
Winnetka, the teardown capital of Cook County
View Winnetka teardowns & new construction in a larger map
The current issue of Crain’s Chicago Business (subscription required) reports a mode [...]
Winnetka address, Kenilworth school district
There’s a small pocket of Winnetka, just south of New Trier High School, that blends seamlessly into Kenilworth and is in Kenilworth School Dist [...]
A Winnetka new construction price misjudgment
I walk through and report on many homes during the course of a year, but rarely express an opinion on price. Saying anything useful would require [...]
Municipal service rates on the rise in Winnetka
The average Winnetka home will see the cost of municipal services increase by 2.1%, or $125.
The increase consists of a 1.4% ($37) rise in prop [...]
Misquote of the day – only 30 $1M plus sales
Many of the numbers he talks about these days aren't very pretty, particularly when it comes to Moorehead's sweet spot: upper-bracket homes.
Accord [...]
Winnetka open house – a walk-to-school block
Once again we’re dipping into YoChicago’s extensive video vault of summer drives through the north and North Shore suburbs.
Winnetka District 3 [...]