Tag: Apartments
Rental spotlight – River West Lofts
An in-house tipster alerted me to several vacancies at River West Lofts, 925 W Huron St. A one-bedroom is renting for $1,375 and a two-bedroom for [...]
Oakwood 200 Squared is a Walker’s Paradise
The popular WalkScore.com website gives Oakwood 200 Squared's location, 210 N Wells St in Chicago's Loop, a 98 of 100 Walk Score* rating – labelin [...]
The views from 1300 North Lake Shore Drive
It was an ideal day today, with clear skies and a temperature in the 70s. The middle of my day took me to three great vantage points for viewing C [...]
MLS-listed downtown rentals jumped nearly 20% in September
On the first Friday of September there were 734 homes and condos listed for rent in the MLS in the downtown ZIP codes that we track. As of Septemb [...]
Calling all brosifs – need a place to live, will bring PS3 and baseball cards
Craigslist ads are windows into the worlds we live in, and the ways we live in them. The "apts wanted" section, in particular, often surfaces tale [...]
Is The Clare at Water Tower offering traditional rentals?
Just a day after Crain's reported that The Clare at Water Tower had defaulted on $229 million in debt, twenty-two of its apartments were listed fo [...]
Planned Property selects t-shirt contest finalists
Planned Property Management, a YoChicago sponsor, gained the attention of the city's graphic arts community with its offer of $1,000, $750 and $50 [...]
Ground broken for 500 Lake Shore Drive apartment tower
Yesterday marked the official groundbreaking for 500 North Lake Shore Drive, a 45-story, 500-unit luxury rental tower expected to be ready for occ [...]
Oakwood offers a new luxury rental housing option in Chicago’s Loop
Renters looking for housing in the heart of Chicago’s Loop have an exciting new option at Oakwood 200 Squared, 210 N Wells St.
Oakwood Worldwi [...]
Are landlords eliminating the rental service bedbugs?
I've recently spoken to landlords who have either cut back on their use of the apartment rental services that we call bedbugs, eliminated them ent [...]
Lakeview East apartments east of Broadway
Planned Property , one of our sponsors, has 3 buildings with renovated apartments east of Broadway on Melrose, in Lakeview East. The buildings are [...]
Is that 3-months free rent deal in Evanston for real?
Or is it just a hustle to grab your attention?
415 Premier Apartments, formerly known as Skyline at Evanston, sits on the north side of Howard [...]
The courtyards of Rogers Park
Larry Shure, a preservation planner with the City of Chicago, has begun a fascinating project cataloging and categorizing the courtyard buildings [...]
Hyde Park’s Regents Park reported sold
Crain's is reporting that New Jersey-based Antheus Capital has agreed to buy Regents Park, a 1,031 unit two-tower apartment complex on the lakefro [...]
This Homestead Group leasing agent has a criminal record
You never know who you're getting in the car with when you work with one of the apartment rental services that we call bedbugs. A number of the re [...]
Rent Smart, lie dumb
We've written about Rent Smart Chicago several times – calling attention to its owner's criminal record and its claim to be “Chicago’s largest and [...]
Quote of the week – The whole world’s for sale
Mark Stern, a senior vice president at Waterton Associates, was only half joking when he told Crain’s Chicago Real Estate Daily that “the whole wo [...]
Planned Property announces T-shirt design contest
"Have fun with it. Be original. Start designing." Follow those simple instructions and you may win the $1,000 first prize for creating the officia [...]
Up on the roof at Aqua – views that speak for themselves
Join Todd Wendell, who was the project manager for the design team at Aqua, on the roof above the penthouse level, over 800 feet above Chicago, c [...]
The penthouse views from Astoria Tower
Astoria Tower has converted from condos to rentals since I visited the rooftop terraces on the penthouse level to check out the 360-degree views o [...]