The nearly news: what a million bucks gets you in Bridgeport
When Realtors guide a real estate reporter around their neighborhood, they're bound to pass a couple of their listings. The home at 2633 S Farrell A [...]
Unit details and minimum bids for Michigan Avenue Tower II's condo auction
Accelerated Marketing Services has posted a breakdown of the Michigan Avenue Tower II condos it's auctioning on November 15. I had to punch in my name [...]
Bridgeport: solid roots hoping to branch out
During our tour of Bridgeport last week, Nicole and Joe Pusateri of Bricks Realty took me to a local hardware store that exemplifies the personality [...]
Understanding the language of auctions
If the word "auction" probably conjures images of fancy Sotheby's showrooms or motor-mouthed MCs manning a cattle pen, you'll be happy to know that [...]
40 Michigan Avenue Tower II condos to be auctioned in November
Are the auction floodgates finally opening?
Following the Vetro auction last winter, several market observers expected condos at big developments to [...]
Construction checkup: EnV
One new development that wouldn't rank high in a Web presence watch is EnV, the new 28-story, 249-unit apartment tower going up next to the Merchan [...]
Web presence: OK at K Station
Welcome to the another installment of our ongoing “Web presence” feature, in which we collect as many links as we can for one residential developme [...]
Thousands of new homes planned for Pullman
The non-profit development arm of Park National Bank hopes to build as many as 3,000 new single-family homes, townhouses and low-rises on 138 acres in [...]
Trump resales, above and below ground
As we saw yesterday in my video tour with Tricia Fox, Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago is just one example of a new high-rise with lots [...]
New mixed-use develoment proposed for Logan Square
Plans for several tall, mixed-use developments along North Milwaukee Avenue in Logan Square will go in front of the 1st Ward's advisory panel next wee [...]
Floor-to-ceiling views from a Motor Row Lofts corner unit
"This is the sex appeal people associate with a loft," says Joe Zekas as he walks around unit #206 at Motor Row Lofts, 2303 S Michigan Ave, with dev [...]
Bridgeport's "island" on the Chicago River
Continuing our drive through a rainy, October day in Bridgeport, Nicole Pusateri, broker / owner of Bricks Realty, takes me to an area she likes to [...]
Loft living: "You have to want it"
In addition to organizing last weekend's South Loop Neighbors Loft Walk, South Loop Neighbors Chair Helen Kaplow opened her Donohue Building home to [...]
Views aplenty from a Trump three-bedroom
After chatting about the state of Chicago's luxury market, Tricia Fox of Keller Williams Gold Coast Realtors took me through a couple of her listing [...]
Construction checkup: 215 West tops out
The silence from downtown's condo high-rise construction sites would be deafening if not for all the noise coming from several new apartment towers [...]
Bob Darrow on Broadway retail and alternatives to Boys Town
From the Center on Halsted, Bob Darrow and I walked east along Waveland Avenue to Broadway. If Halsted Street represents the heart of Boys Town nigh [...]
Neighborhoods for the rest of us: McKinley Park
Taking its name from the 69-acre public space bounded by 37th Street, Pershing Road, and Damen, Western, and Archer avenues (itself named after Pres [...]
Opera's lofty themes: rent or own?
In Chicago's Near South Side, Opera Realty's Opera Lofts are selling and leasing lofts converted from a storage warehouse for the Lyric Opera of Chi [...]
Private lane living in Old Town
Join Joe Zekas and Prudential Rubloff's Joanne Nemerovski for a walk through a mint-condition three-bedroom / three-bath-plus townhome on a private [...]
Trend-setters in blue-collar Bridgeport
Last week, I toured Bridgeport with Nicole Pusateri, owner and managing broker of Bricks Realty, and her husband Joe, also an agent. Nicole and Joe [...]