Yo's year: Top videos from YouTube
Here are a few of the most-viewed videos added to the YoChicago YouTube channel over the past year.
A city within a city: Lakeshore East from the Chi [...]
Jameson advertising rentals at Trio
No surprise here -- Crain's reported a while back that RDM Development was pursuing a rental option for the Trio tower at 670 W Wayman St. I caught [...]
All quiet at Lexington Park Condominiums
Its Web site is down, its listings have disappeared, and not a single tower unit has closed. Not the best way for Chieftain Group's Lexington Park C [...]
EnV gets a better Web site, too
Not to be left out of the mix, The Lynd Company has assembled a lot of new information for EnV, 161 W Kinzie St, in advance of the tower's opening i [...]
Foreclosure comes to the EcoLogic Lofts
Senco Properties has defaulted on almost $7 million in loans for the 94-unit EcoLogic Lofts in Bucktown, leaving the turbine-topped plan blowing in [...]
South Loop status: Some homes close at Museum Park Place South, but most linger
I guess Museum Park Place South isn't so quiet after all. Since October, 61 condos have closed at the tower, located at 1901 S Calumet Ave in the So [...]
Web presence: Alta at K Station site updated with prices, floor plans, and more
The not-quite-twin towers of Alta at K Station at 555 W Kinzie St will have added well over 800 new apartments to the Fulton River District's invent [...]
Rental snapshot: How much for a 2,000 square-foot home in the downtown market?
The number of downtown homes listed as rentals on the MLS fell again between Dec. 18 and 25, according to our weekly tally. A total of 1,760 condos we [...]
List vs. sale: charting trends in three Chicago neighborhoods
Redfin can crunch a lot of data for users based on ZIP code or neighborhood. This morning I looked up the site's pages for three areas -- 60611 (Stree [...]
Yo's year: South Loop on the auction block
Individual posts on Roosevelt Collection, Pure, and The Silver District pulled in lots of page views this year, but one story really set the tone for [...]
Ritz-Carlton gets its financing
It'll be a happy new year for the Ritz-Carlton Residences after all. Arabian Business reports that Kuwait Finance House, which has a 95-percent stake [...]
Was $335,000, now asking $19,900 in East Garfield Park
Back in February of 2007 I characterized East Garfield Park as "flat on its back and barely twitching." A month later Business Week singled out East G [...]
Roseland stocking stuffer under $5 a square foot
If your purchase of a 3 bedroom, bath-and-a-half home at 32 West 104th St in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood qualifies for the $8,000 tax credit you'l [...]
From the video vault: Reindeer games in Logan Square
Travel back to a recent Christmas past with this video, a short vignette featuring the decorations outside a home in the 3600 block of West Wrightwo [...]
For sale or lease: Waltz into a "suite" condo at Joffrey Tower
It's Nutcracker time for the Joffrey Ballet, which seems like as good of an excuse as any to check in on availability at the company's base of operati [...]
Last Motor Row Lofts cut by 27 percent
Sheldon Good & Company has reduced the remaining units at Motor Row Lofts, 2303 S Michigan Ave, by 27 percent off their original list prices and [...]
Chicago Spire non-story of the day
Crain's is reporting – to no one's surprise – that four large union-affiliated investment funds are taking a pass on the Chicago Spire.
Crain's quote [...]
Shoulda, woulda, coulda: Canyon Ranch Living
Of all the high-rise proposals that have come and gone in recent years, only a few can still send Realtors drifting into wistful thoughts of what coul [...]
Yo's year: Mining the Silver District
Apparently a lot of you wanted to know about the Silver District this year. Mark's post from March about the 20-unit development at 2800 W North Ave [...]
Yo's weekly condo rental update
The number of downtown homes listed for rent on the MLS has leveled off in the past few weeks. By our count, there was a net change of just three unit [...]