17 condos coming to Hubbard and Racine
I noticed this four-story building under construction while walking home from the Yo office last week. At the time, I tried asking one of the constr [...]
Bob Darrow in the heart of Roscoe Village
With its variety of storefronts, sidewalk cafes, and frame houses, the stretch of Roscoe Street just west of Damen Avenue feels a little like Main S [...]
Buyers keep walking from downtown contracts
In his latest column, Sun-Times real estate writer David Roeder addresses the rising "walkaway" rate -- the number of buyers who fail to close on home [...]
Crain's: Pearson on the Park faces foreclosure
Hawthorne Development's Pearson on the Park, the 28-story, 219-unit conversion at 222 E Pearson St in Streeterville, is the latest downtown condo high [...]
Rockwell Crossing: Chicago's "Little Mayberry"
Mark and I stepped off a Brown Line train yesterday afternoon and into the short stretch of North Rockwell Street in Lincoln Square known as Rockwel [...]
Behind the Near West Side's industrial facade
Rubloff agent and Yo contributor Eric Rojas was recently giving a showing at The Avenue on Grand, a new-construction development at 1845 - 1847 W Gran [...]
Driving the Old Town Triangle with Lino
The Old Town Triangle is recognized by both the city and the federal government as a landmark district, and its community organizations work hard to [...]
Construction checkup: River North high-rises
Yesterday's lunch break was a good time to try out one of the new HD cameras Joe brought into the office. I took a roundabout route back to the Yo o [...]
Magellan reaches sellout at 340 on the Park
It's not every day that a developer gets to announce the sellout of a new-construction high-rise, so I suppose Magellan Development made a little news [...]
Roscoe Village's single-family homes and condos
One of the questions I asked Bob Darrow as we were scheduling our Roscoe Village tour was whether the neighborhood had any pockets that were languis [...]
Marquette Park: Lithuanians, nuns, and Nazis
In this episode from our recent drive around Chicago's southwest side, Joe Zekas remembers a derogatory term for Lithuanians, visits the grounds of [...]
A photographer looks at 1720 South Michigan
A busy homebuyer might park the car and walk a block north and south of CMK's 1720 S. Michigan to gain perspective on it.
Our staff photographer, [...]
The Lincoln Park market: setting Forbes straight
When Jenny Ames talks, people listen. When she talks about Lincoln Park, people listen very carefully. Ames does her homework meticulously before spea [...]
A visit to Roscoe Village
Walking a neighborhood, block by block, in the company of a knowledgeable real estate agent, is the best way to begin learning about real estate val [...]
Lino in Lincoln Park: On Deming Place
Deming Place is one of those very special spots that set Lincoln Park apart from other Chicago neighborhoods. In this video, Coldwell Banker agent L [...]
The Two Joes visit RDM's Marquette Village
One of the last places Joe Zekas and I visited during our South Side drive-around a couple weeks ago was the site of RDM Development's multi-phased [...]
Jackson Park's lagoons and Japanese garden
Jackson Park is largely defined by water. The park is bordered to the east by Lake Michigan, and it has two large lagoons and a harbor. In Part 1 of [...]
Inside 235 Van Buren: A photosynth
Have you played around with Microsoft's Photosynth technology yet? We've known about it for a long time, but we hadn't given it a try with our own p [...]
Jackson Park and the 63rd Street Beach
Jackson Park is one of the city's biggest parks, spanning the South Side neighborhoods of South Shore, Woodlawn and Hyde Park, and it's one of the c [...]
On the decks at Aqua
Between interviews and tours during the Aqua homeowners party last weekend, Joe shot some short vignettes of the tower, its amenities, and its surro [...]