Tag: 60611
A home-sized three-bedroom at The Regent in the Gold Coast
This three-bedroom / three-bath condo at The Regent, 190 E Walton Pl, has the feel of a luxurious home, and the spacious rooms, master suite, and st [...]
Sales update: 23 condos left at ParkView
ParkView Condominiums hit the ground running in 2010 with 11 sales in the first quarter, enough to make it onto a "most improved" list in an Appraisal [...]
Trump: What's selling, and what's for sale
In an attempt to pick up the pace of sales, Trump International Hotel & Tower is about to do something it's never done before: put together furnis [...]
Walking Lake Shore Drive: Francesca and Joe on 600 Lake Shore
The two towers of 600 Lake Shore Drive are among Francesca Rose's favorite new buildings. The towers are considered by many to be some of the best w [...]
A Neoclassical villa atop a Mag Mile skyscraper, for just $11.5 million
Does your home have an enough room?
Not enough room, but a room that gives visitors "just enough information" about you, and that serves as a "mirr [...]
The priciest one-bedroom in Chicago
I didn't mean to write anything else about this building for a while -- it just happened that way.
As the headline says, this is the priciest one-bed [...]
Construction checkup: Ritz-Carlton Residences
With yesterday's sales update still in mind, I took a detour to the Mag Mile during my lunch break to get a look at the Ritz-Carlton Residences, und [...]
Crain's: Three sales in three months for Ritz-Carlton Residences
You know times have changed when three pre-construction sales can make headlines. Crain's reports that the 88-unit Ritz-Carlton Residences, under cons [...]
The Pearson, then and now
My latest random selection from the Yo file cabinets is a promotional packet for The Pearson, the westernmost of Related Midwest's three "Residence [...]
Walking Lake Shore Drive: Joe and Francesca on 680 Lake Shore
680 Lake Shore Drive was formerly the American Furniture Mart, and had an address of 666 N Lake Shore Dr. After the building's conversion to a mixed [...]
Renovated Carlyle condo gets $1.05 million markup from 2008 sale price
One of the 200-plus homes that went on the market this weekend is this 3,020 square-foot, three-bedroom / 4.5-bath condo at the Carlyle, the 40-stor [...]
A $2.6 million short sale on the Mag Mile
The most expensive short sale I can find in Chicago is this duplex penthouse at Chicago Place, on the northwest corner of Huron Street and Michigan Av [...]
Walking the drive with Francesca: 850 LSD, 840 LSD, and Lake Shore Park
The only rental building Joe Zekas and Realtor Francesca Rose passed during their walk down Lake Shore Drive earlier this summer was the luxury seni [...]
Another Elysian condo returns to market
A lot of the flip attempts at the Elysian, 11 E Walton St, have come with significant markups -- as much as 33 percent above an original sale price in [...]
Renting Streeterville on the cheap – the Hancock Center
Renting a condo in Streeterville can be a cheap alternative to renting in one of the newer high-rises. That’s “cheap” in a relative rather than an a [...]
Yo's list – A guide to renting Streeterville apartments and condos
There are 1,000s of ads on Craigslist for Streeterville apartments, most of them featuring the eleven (that's all there are) rental high-rises in th [...]
The busiest buildings in Streeterville
Anytime I bring up Redfin's past sales information, I feel the need to qualify that the information isn't entirely accurate -- to my knowledge, most o [...]
Then and now: Water Tower Place
Here's what our 1992 Co-ops & Condos sourcebook had to say about Water Tower Place, the 74-story high-rise and shopping center at 180 E Pearson St in [...]
Waiting it out: Olympia Centre studio nearing 1,000 days on the market
Do good things come to those who wait? And wait? and wait? The owner of one 650 square-foot studio at Olympia Centre must think so. He or she has ha [...]
Small homes not a sacrifice for new buyers
From MSNBC's "The big thinking in condos now is to get small":
“For Gen Y, the home is a place to live out of, not to live in. They don’t think of [...]