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Stock of unsold new units high downtown, but few completed condos are sitting empty
City Homes
Despite gloomy rumors of unsold condominium units sitting empty downtown, there currently are only 177 new-construction high-rise condos [...]
Chicago rent barometer: good deals in Mayfair
A comment by Unhappily Married (I had a friend like that once) on our post on rising rents mentioned that there are "hundreds of rentals for unde [...]
Streeterville's The St. Clair to launch sales in May
The St. Clair at Cityfront Plaza, Centrum Properties' 41-story high-rise planned in Streeterville, will open sales May 12, according to a news relea [...]
Kingsbury Plaza brings luxury rentals to River North
Condos aren't the only things filling the high-rises headed up in River North. The Habitat Company is renting studio to two-bedroom luxury apartmen [...]
Chicago rent barometer: walk to work from River North
River North might be a good place to camp out while the CTA tries to sort itself out over the next two years - the neighborhood is walking distance [...]
Oversupplied condo market may squeeze investors when their "babies" are delivered
City Homes
Fewer than 300 new condominiums were completed and still on the market in downtown Chicago at the end of 2006, but the inventory of unso [...]
Chicago rent barometer: living by the lake
As the winds howling across Lake Michigan begin to lose their punishing chill, the idea of renting along Chicago's lakefront looks more and more app [...]
New condo towers at home in the Loop
The area between Roosevelt Road and the Chicago River used to be reserved for business – civic or private – and living in a condo there [...]
Chicago rent barometer: so you want to rent in the Loop?
It's a safe bet there aren't many baristas renting in Chicago's Loop. We scanned some recent Craigslist ads to find out how much scratch you should [...]
Kids, pets welcome in Andersonville
Many of the people we spotted on a recent walk down Clark Street in Andersonville were out walking either their children or their dogs. The confluen [...]
A trip down Archer Avenue
Yo's truly spent Tuesday wandering along Archer Avenue. We stopped in at Crafts by Claudia, 4300 S Archer Ave, where owner Claudia Bends was teaching [...]
Chicago rent barometer: Pilsen from low to high
We've been scanning the apartment postings on Craigslist to see what you'll get for your money if you're renting in Pilsen. Not surprisingly, rents [...]
Find your furniture at Apartment Therapy
Over at Yo's Twenty-somethings journal, vzekas is lamenting the loss of her couch and looking for a new one, so we thought we'd point our renting fr [...]
Lofts at Bridgeport Place – once a South Sider always a South Sider?
We told you a while back that Dubin Residential was milking the White Sox World Series victory to sell units at The Lofts at Bridgeport Place. It seem [...]
Let's stay in and paint the apartment red
This is one Chicago man's entry in a competition for decorating small apartments or some such thing over at Apartment Therapy. As one commenter sugges [...]
541 West Cornelia meets the neighbors
In the same street as Harvey House, in Lakeview, is JDL Development Corporation's upcoming 541 West Cornelia, a fairly bland-looking new-construction [...]
The Windy City's getting damn cold – can we turn on the heat?
Fall seems to have come and gone in the blink of an eye, and all we're left with are a few yellow leaves and the winter weather. YoChicago's Val refle [...]
Chicago rent barometer: South Loop for around $1,500
We've been talking an awful lot about the South Loop lately, so we thought we'd check out how much it costs to rent out a piece of Chicago's gangly [...]
Roscoe Village leapfrogs West Roscoe Village
While all of us are busily mocking the "West Roscoe Village" usage, apartment rental services are busy extending the boundaries of Roscoe Village.
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Sign of the times: "For Rent" signs on for-sale buildings
That's a "Now Renting" sign hanging from the balcony at the new-construction condo development 3101 N California Ave, something we've been seeing mo [...]