Today's news: Buy or rent a corner condo with lake views at 1400 Museum Park
Today's new listing is located inside a relatively new high-rise: The Enterprise Companies' 1400 Museum Park, at the corner of 14th Street and Mich [...]
First deliveries on EnV's horizon
The first 12 residential floors of EnV in River North will open to tenants the middle of next month, according to the tower's leasing staff.
EnV's se [...]
Homes with history in the "new" Playboy building
Our Streeterville correspondent Francesca Rose checked in yesterday with a post topic in mind: the 84-year-old high-rise at 680 N Lake Shore Dr.
Thi [...]
Green spaces in the heart of Loft Land
Residents of the many loft buildings in the near West Loop don't lack for green space in their high-density surroundings. On the east side of Despla [...]
Today's news: A rehabbed single-family on three lots in Garfield Ridge
Are you OK with living under the flight paths of Midway? Because that's where you're going to find this rehabbed single-family home, which went on t [...]
Aqua's hotel back on track?
Aqua finally has an operator for its 15 hotel floors, says Blair Kamin. Magellan Development will make an announcement about the tenant in the next fe [...]
Howard Street: Wild, wooly, bleak, and bleary
From Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily, June 24, 2009:
A pioneering effort to develop a 221-unit apartment building on the scruffy border of Evanst [...]
Today's news: $22 per square foot for a Humboldt Park REO
One of the homes to hit the MLS in the past 24 hours is this 1,422 square-foot, three-bedroom / 1.5-bath single-family home at 1631 N Springfield Ave [...]
Quote of the day: Wiping away 40 years of progress in Chatham
While to most, this is just another bank failure but if Shorebank fails it will wipe away over 40 years of history and progress of Chatham...
Al [...]
BlockWalks: the 1800 block of North Maud Avenue in Lincoln Park
Join Joe Zekas for a BlockWalk down a street he didn't build on. Joe explains:
Back in the early '80s I bought two lots in the 1800 block of Maud [...]
Shark bites: "Devastation" in West Rogers Park's condo conversions
Yesterday afternoon I received an e-mail from CondoShark.com's Matt Garrison focusing on two topics: the types of buyers who are active in the post- [...]
Erie Park's playground: River North's newest hot spot
Mommies, nannies, and babies agree -- Erie Park is where River North's cool kids are hanging out this spring. Temps in the high 40s didn't make Thur [...]
New fountain springs up at Emerald
As a reminder that new-construction developments remain new-construction developments well after buyers start moving in, John Robert Wiltgen Design [...]
Eight highly upgraded condos available in Roscoe Village
Sam Banks of Sergio & Banks takes Joe Zekas through Ultimate Homes' new construction condos at 2257 W Belmont Ave in Roscoe Village. The development [...]
Three bedrooms and great city views from a 990 Lake Shore Drive condo
Last month we took you to the top of 990 Lake Shore Drive -- now go inside the tower to get a closer look at one of its homes. Joe Zekas and Prudent [...]
Lots o' lots ripe for development in Lincoln Park, for the right price
Land prices are down significantly in many parts of the city, but it's not an across-the-board trend -- an oversized lot in Lincoln Park can still s [...]
BlockWalks: The 2000 block of North Seminary Avenue in Lincoln Park / DePaul
In the text summary accompanying this video, Joe Zekas writes:
This is one of my favorite blocks in Chicago. I lived there for nearly eight years, [...]
Parc Huron's earth tones
A new coat of a light brown (tan? khaki?) paint now covers part of the concrete facade at Parc Huron, the new rental high-rise nearing completion at [...]
North Side numbers: Recent sales and prices in seven neighborhoods
The latest set of monthly data on home sales and prices at Redfin dates back to March, which already feels like it was ages ago. Consider this a trip [...]
Chicago faux-berhoods: "West Park"
View Redfin's "West Park" boundaries in a larger map
In the process of compiling of Redfin's sales data for North Side neighborhoods, I stumbled acro [...]