Tag: Apartments
A couch potato tour of Lincoln Park apartments
You can spend half an hour at an apartment rental service waiting to repeat the information you've already given over the phone to a rookie agent [...]
Pension fund takes stake in Kingsbury Plaza; improvements slated
Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily reports that the Illinois Teachers' Retirement System has acquired a majority interest in Kingsbury Plaza, 520 N [...]
Will 435 North Park kill some river views?
The apartment tower / hotel under construction (center, crane in photo) at 435 North Park Drive in Streeterville will host 398 apartments and 400 [...]
Is Chicago’s Loop a food desert?
The official boundaries of the Loop Community Area are from Roosevelt Rd (1200 S) north to the Chicago River, and Lake Michigan west to the Chicag [...]
How Chicago’s rental services play rushin’ roulette
Rushin' roulette may be as deadly to your finances as Russian roulette is to your health.
Rushin' roulette is a nasty game played by Chicago's [...]
Old Town apartment project gets a name
I dropped by the southwest corner of Scott and Wells yesterday for an updated look at the progress of the 71-unit apartment building that's under [...]
An updated look at South Loop apartment rents
Renters appear to have a wider selection of available apartments in the South Loop than they did a month ago.
If you're looking to rent in the [...]
Are River North rents drifting downward?
Removal of the large billboard that had been on the site is the first visible sign of progress on a new 33-story, 290-unit apartment tower slated [...]
MLS-listed downtown rentals at 2-year high
The number of homes and condos listed for rent in the 14 downtown ZIP Codes that we track topped 900 for the first time since April of 2011.
Th [...]
Soil testing underway for new West Loop apartments
Two trucks from H.H. Holmes were on site on the parking lot south of 123 N Sangamon when I passed by yesterday. They were engaged in soil testing, whi [...]
Major rehab slated for 2101 S Michigan apartments
The AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust has provided $32 million in financing toward a $42 million renovation of the 250-unit, 26-story apartment tow [...]