Price reductions at 2930 Sheridan
This morning, @properties agent Robert Darrow posted a roundup of some of the major price reductions on condo developments that are being sold by @p [...]
Five townhomes, 14 condos left at Rivers Edge
When I last checked up on the Rivers Edge condo and townhome development in Avondale about a year ago, all but 22 of the condos had been sold alread [...]
Emerald's sales staff gets a green screen
I'm impressed by this video, if only because it provides one more opportunity for the Emerald sales staff to invoke the color green. It's actually a [...]
YoChicago's Ashland Adventure, Part 5: Spying six-flats from Waveland Avenue to Grace Street
The 3700 block of North Ashland Avenue, bounded by Waveland Avenue to the south and Grace Street to the north, was a good place to stop and look at [...]
Tweets and RTs from @LexingtonPark1
A couple of weeks ago, Lexington Park sales manager Britta Rivera told Joe that the only thing standing between buyers and the Lexington Park Condos w [...]
Buying a Breaking Ground home
Say you're interested in working with Breaking Ground to buy a new home in North Lawndale, Englewood, or Auburn Gresham. What does that process enta [...]
Quote of the day: The elusive North Side deal
Anecdotally speaking, in the dozen or so North Side neighborhoods I work in such as Lincoln Square, Ravenswood, Lincoln Park, Lakeview and Near North. [...]
Would you buy a condo if a psychic told you to?
That's the gimmick Akos Straub and his Jameson sales team are presenting at Marquee tonight. In a little under an hour, a tarot reader will be offer [...]
Terrazio gets upgrades and tops off
From the window of the Green Line elevated tracks last week I noticed that Terrazio, Sedgwick Properties' twin seven-story buildings at 1935 S Wabash [...]
YoChicago's Ashland Adventure, Part 4: LV Lofts and the Lakeview Collection
Next stop: the six-corner intersection of Belmont, Lincoln, and Ashland avenues. Mark and I jump out of the car to take a look at New Haven's LV Lof [...]
Inside a Breaking Ground single-family home
Following our introductory drive through North Lawndale, Larry Kimbrough of Breaking Ground took me to a new single-family home at 1414 S Avers Ave. [...]
"Breaking Ground" on new single-family homes in North Lawndale
Along with the job training and education services it provides, the North Lawndale-based organization Breaking Ground builds new single-family homes [...]
Yo's Quad Communities tour: Genesis II brings new single-families to North Kenwood-Oakland
The third stop on my Quad Communities home tour was a 4,000 square-foot single-family home at 4314 S Greenwood Ave in North Kenwood-Oakland. The hom [...]
Changes in Chatham?
If you don't read Levois' Sixth Ward blog regularly, you might have missed a recent discussion over there regarding an observation by the Chatham/Av [...]
YoChicago's Ashland Adventure, Part 3: New homes near Wrightwood Park
As Mark and I make our way closer to the boundary of Lincoln Park and Lake View, we pass Wrightwood Park, site of a swimming pool, jogging path, bal [...]
Buy your home or rent to own at The Renaissance in North Kenwood-Oakland
The second stop on this week's Quad Communities home tour was The Renaissance, a new mixed-use building at 4234 S Ellis Ave in North Kenwood-Oakland [...]
YoChicago's Ashland Adventure, Part 2: Vision and Lincoln Park Lofts
The part of Ashland Avenue that stretches from the East Village up into the southern edge of Lincoln Park lacks the kind of six-flat construction Ma [...]
A Quad Communities Home Tour, Part 1: Revisiting Oakwood Shores in Oakland
As a part of our continuing effort to visit more South Side neighborhoods, I spent Wednesday afternoon with Bernita Johnson-Gabriel, executive direc [...]
One last look at Superior 110
In this final episode from JFJ Development's Superior 110, we went outside what many call "the blue building" and talked to listing agent Greg Eldri [...]
Our see-through city: 1838 West Division
Fast-forward to the 1:07 mark of the Division Street walk-around video below and you'll see the shell of a mixed-use building at the corner of Divi [...]