Tag: Albany Park

Heading upriver to Chicago’s Northwest side

Heading upriver to Chicago’s Northwest side

We folded our New Homes Magazine several years ago, but still enjoy looking back on some of the lengthier stories we published about Chicago neigh [...]
Home inventory drops sharply in some Chicago neighborhoods

Home inventory drops sharply in some Chicago neighborhoods

It could be just a case of a spring market up-tick, but a number of neighborhoods have seen the inventory of available homes drop sharply last month. [...]
Kimball Station sold to Inland affiliate

Kimball Station sold to Inland affiliate

It's been almost exactly three years since we received word that Kimball Station, a 59-unit condo development in Albany Park, had converted to ren [...]
New luxury apartments on the Albany Park / Irving Park border

New luxury apartments on the Albany Park / Irving Park border

Noah Properties is best known for its rapidly-selling stylish new homes and condos, but the company has begun building new rental properties with [...]
Median selling prices take a hit on northwest side

Median selling prices take a hit on northwest side

The last time I wrote for YoChicago, I highlighted several neighborhoods whose sellers were holding out for a higher price -- in other words, neig [...]
Rental spotlight – 3/3 at Confetti Place in Albany Park

Rental spotlight – 3/3 at Confetti Place in Albany Park

Prudential Rubloff's Eric Rojas called our attention to a spacious duplex down at the Confetti Place condo that's not yet in the MLS. The 3-bed [...]
Rental deal of the day: An updated Albany Park 2BR for $1,025 a month

Rental deal of the day: An updated Albany Park 2BR for $1,025 a month

Today's deal from Chicago Rentals Direct is an updated two-bedroom / one-bath apartment in Albany Park, priced at $1,025 a month. The apartmen [...]
Development deadpool – and a healthy real estate segment

Development deadpool – and a healthy real estate segment

There’s one part of the real estate business that’s experiencing boom times: renting construction fencing. It’s a business that may have becom [...]
An unusual plunge for Albany Park’s condo market

An unusual plunge for Albany Park’s condo market

The Albany Park condominium market has heretofore been fairly stable compared to its peers, but suffered a steep drop in sales velocity and median [...]
A transit-oriented development roundup from LISC/Chicago’s New Communities Program

A transit-oriented development roundup from LISC/Chicago’s New Communities Program

A new Mayoral Candidates Brief (PDF) issued by LISC/Chicago's New Communities Program identifies 34 projects and programs throughout the city "that ca [...]
Two histories of Albany Park

Two histories of Albany Park

By sheer coincidence I've received links to two wildly different depictions of old-school Albany Park in less than 12 hours. Between them, you can [...]
Ravenswood Manor: What’s selling, what’s for sale

Ravenswood Manor: What’s selling, what’s for sale

The Northwest Side neighborhood of Ravenswood Manor was the site of at least 14 single-family home sales in 2010, but right now has very little to [...]
Who’s leaving Albany Park?

Who’s leaving Albany Park?

Over the past decade, Albany Park's white, black, and Hispanic populations all grew by modest amounts, yet the community area's total population d [...]
New condos still arriving in Albany Park

New condos still arriving in Albany Park

Residential construction hasn't hit a stand-still just yet, not even in a neighborhood like Albany Park. All six condos at 3300 W Lawrence Ave final [...]
Little distress, lots of life on Drake Avenue

Little distress, lots of life on Drake Avenue

The way Alderman Mell's been talking, you'd be forgiven for thinking Albany Park was a wasteland of board-ups and junkies these days. Using this for [...]
Shark bites: Four-bedroom duplexes available for under $300K in Irving Park

Shark bites: Four-bedroom duplexes available for under $300K in Irving Park

Buyers are coming around on a new-construction six-flat at 3500 W Irving Park Rd on the Irving Park / Albany Park border, where the Matt Garrison [...]
BlockWalks: the 4400 block of North Albany Street in Albany Park

BlockWalks: the 4400 block of North Albany Street in Albany Park

Loran McDonald was the first New Trier kid I met upon arriving at the University of Missouri more than a decade ago. During our four years at Mizzou [...]
Conlon opens sales at new Albany Park condos

Conlon opens sales at new Albany Park condos

Here's a project that's flown under our radar until now: a new five-story, 45-unit building at the corner of Leland and Kedzie avenues in Albany Par [...]
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