Tag: Aerial photographs
Fifield delivers K2 apartments ahead of schedule
The first apartment move-ins at K2 in the Fulton River District are slated for March 1, well ahead of schedule. I'll be there this morning, visiti [...]
Increased competition for distressed properties in downtown Chicago
After hearing of a short sale that elicited 33 bids – 22 of them cash offers – within a week, I reached out to Vik Wadhwa of Urban Living to learn [...]
River North short sale draws 80 showings, 33 offers in a week
Well-located, attractively-priced properties, especially if they're distressed, are once again generating a frenzy of activity on the part of buye [...]
A complete list of Lakeview East high-rise apartments
Chicago's scofflaw rental services / apartment locators / apartment finders would like you to believe that finding a high-rise apartment in Lakevi [...]
The safe, fast and easy way to find a South Loop apartment
If you want to rent in the South Loop, you can see all of your managed apartment building options on YoChicago's South Loop availability list, bel [...]
Strong 4th-quarter sales signal Chicago housing recovery
The following market update arrived via a news release from RE/MAX Northern Illinois:
Home sales in the metropolitan Chicago real estate market [...]
YoChicago visitor count at a new high in January
YoChicago reached 53,686 unique visitors in January, a 22.4% increase over last January, and a new high, surpassing last April's level. During cal [...]
Find Lincoln Park apartments the fast, safe and easy way
Chicago's piratical rental services / apartment locators / apartment finders would like you to believe that finding an apartment in Lincoln Park i [...]
An at-a-glance list of what’s for rent in the South Loop
The big news in the South Loop apartment market this week is that CMK Companies has acquired a site in the 1300 block of Wabash and is planning a [...]
More student housing headed for the Loop
The Pickwick Stable, 22 E Jackson, is architecture blogger Wayne Lorentz's "all-time favorite most unusual Chicago building." You can learn some o [...]
See what’s really for rent in the South Loop
The biggest news in the South Loop apartment market – although it will have little impact on renters – is that ST Residential has put The Lex, a 3 [...]
Yet another River North apartment tower, at Chicago and LaSalle
Just one of the things that make YoChicago unique among local real estate websites is our image library. Other sites have few original photos to d [...]
The extravagant views from The Montgomery
Head just a mile west of the lake and, if you're able to find a vantage point a few hundred feet above the ground, you'll be in big sky country an [...]
Is the Fisher Building terra cotta a pun or payback?
I was at a meeting at the Fisher Building yesterday morning. Later in the day I headed for DesignSlinger to learn a bit about the history of this [...]
Is Chicago designed to encourage drunk driving?
Among the nation's top 25 cities, Chicago ranks near the bottom in traffic fatalities per 1,000 people, and has a middling rank in the number of t [...]
YoChicago traffic up sharply in 2012
According to Google Analytics, the number of unique visitors to YoChicago during 2012 was up 24.7% over 2011, and 86.8% over 2010. We reached more [...]
Fifield closes on Alta, shifts attention to K2
From a recent news release:
Chicago-based Fifield Companies and its joint-venture partner, Pacific Life Insurance Co. of Newport Beach, Calif., [...]
Crescent Heights acquires 3 acres of South Loop land
S Loop Chicago Development, LLC, a single-purpose entity which is part of a group of companies affiliated with Crescent Heights, has purchased app [...]
New apartment tower proposed for State and Chestnut
The drumbeat of new apartment announcements in downtown Chicago continues, and we've updated our list and tally of them accordingly.
Crain's Chica [...]
What’s for rent in the South Loop
If you want to rent in the South Loop, you can see all of your managed apartment building options on YoChicago's South Loop availability list.
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