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Deal of the day: $2,000 credit and plasma TV at Maplewood Condominiums
We posted recently on the bucolic calm of the Arcadia Terrace neighborhood. Here's another plus for this Northwest Side pocket, at least if you're i [...]
Kingsbury Plaza rental tower nearing completion
The Habitat Company's sleek rental high-rise, Kingsbury Plaza, is nearly complete.
The facade is close to finished, as are the fitness and party ro [...]
Maplewood Condominiums – a slice of Arcadia on the Northwest Side
Ah, Arcadia Terrace. Just saying the name conjures up the bucolic peace and innocence of the ancient Greek region from which the Northwest Side neig [...]
Andersonville Bay Condominiums comes to Clark and Bryn Mawr
A 17-unit condo project has cropped up toward the north end of Andersonville's Clark Street commercial corridor. Andersonville Bay Condominiums, at [...]
Light and airy in Bucktown for around $2.07 million
Although the white facade is ultimately what you're going to get at 1842 N Wood St in Bucktown, the online listing for the four-bedroom 3.5-bath sin [...]
Tour The Grand Briar condo conversion in Lakeview East
The Habitat Company Brokerage Division's Millie Rosenbloom takes us on a tour of The Grand Briar, the condo conversion of a vintage 34-unit building [...]
Competition improving quality of River North's newest buildings?
In our recent interview with Albert Friedman, the developer who restored many of River North's classic loft buildings was diplomatic about the blan [...]
Chicago’s changing real estate market, Millie Rosenbloom
The Habitat Company's Millie Rosenbloom has long been one of the city's best-known and most respected agents.
Millie showed us around 433 W Briar, [...]
Touring Trixieland, the Armitage El station, Chicago
To understand the fabled Lincoln Park / DePaul Trixie, it's necessary to observe her at length in her prime habitat.
This one's for all of the Tr [...]
Kingsbury Plaza brings luxury rentals to River North
Condos aren't the only things filling the high-rises headed up in River North. The Habitat Company is renting studio to two-bedroom luxury apartmen [...]
New construction is being added to area conversions
Uptown and Edgewater contain perhaps the most varied housing stock in Chicago. Travel from the dense '60s high-rises that line Sheridan Road to the [...]
Hundreds of new homes coming to Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood
Proclaiming that Brighton Park is on the move, a story in Friday's Chicago Sun-Times cited plans for a new 84-unit Lexington Homes development a [...]
Chicago deal of the day: Edgewater condos from the $70s
When we heard from the Multiple Listing Service of Northern Illinois that that the median condo / townhome price for 2006 was $285,500, we began hunti [...]
Moving right along: Brighton Park's Westernview Condos
The last time we posted on the Westernview Condos, currently under construction in Brighton Park, a neighborhood on the Southwest Side, it appeared [...]
Rent barometer: South Shore units from $600 to $1,350
Once an area with large Irish and Jewish populations, South Shore transformed into a predominantly African-American community during the tumultuous ' [...]
Lofts on the move
After dominating downtown, lofts head to the neighborhoods
If you want insight into the biggest trend in Chicago's market for new lofts, just brows [...]
South by southwest
New homes, residents spur change in staid affordable neighborhoodsÂ
Story by Alison Soltau | Photography by Barry Peterson
Amy Mogelber [...]
MOX mends Old Town Triangle Victorian
We must be jonesing over historic houses today. We've already looked at the three River North mansions that The Habitat Company is marketing, and now [...]
Inside the historic mansions of River North
Last week we told you about the three historic mansions that The Habitat Company is marketing in River North. Yo's truly peeked inside the homes rece [...]
Edgewater condo conversions roundup, part 1
We've already looked at Wayne Manor (no, not the one in Gotham City) and Magnolia Court, but there are plenty of other condo conversions floating ar [...]